A plan to evacuate the military base located in French Carmel and building on its land threatens French Carmel.
Evacuation of "Wolf Camp"
On 30/6/2021, the district committee accepted a plan submitted by the Israel Land Authority (RAMI) for the construction of 460 housing units in high and low towers on the lands of Camp Ze'ev, the military base that is slated for evacuation. On 03/10/2021, threshold conditions of The plan and for two years was rolled out in different stages in the district committee (deposit of conditions, fulfillment of conditions, additional discussion, etc.).
On June 15.6.2023, 23.8.2023, the plan was submitted to the district committee and is now open to objections. The deadline for submitting an objection to the plan is August XNUMX, XNUMX.
public struggle
During the year 2022, a WhatsApp group was established of the residents of French Carmel who began to unite in order to oppose the idea of appropriating the land for entrepreneurs and private construction instead of designating the rare area for an open public park with a view of the Haifa Bay, Acre and the Galilee.
The residents work entirely voluntarily
Dozens of residents are working on a full volunteer basis to save the lands in the area known as 'Rosh HaCarmel'. Public meetings were held in the presence of residents, with the participation of mayoral candidates, public figures and the media. This is a public struggle that testifies to the rich human and multicultural mosaic that makes up the city. Objections will be submitted by, among others, the Carmel Public Forum Association, the French Carmel Residents' Committee, the Carmelite Church, the Baha'is, the Chaya Center for Social Justice, and more.
Haifa Municipality joins an independent opposition
Following a meeting of the leaders of the 'Rash Carmel' struggle with the city engineer that took place at the beginning of last July, the municipality of Haifa announced its joining an independent opposition against the construction plans and in favor of leaving the area public.
public mobilization
As mentioned, the last date for submitting the objection is August 23.8.23, XNUMX, and for this purpose a fundraising campaign has been launched for lawyers and experts as well as collecting as many signatures as possible from residents who oppose the construction.
Friendship Park
The vision of creating a public park that expresses the multicultural wealth of the city's residents is reflected in the plan prepared by landscape architect Dr. Hana Yaffe, designer of the Bridges Park in Nesher and winner of the prestigious Caravan Award. Hana designed a park of urban and national significance that will bring many tourists to Haifa thanks to works of art And a sculpture in the park, a gallery, a wide observation deck alongside walking paths and connections to the unique routes that leave from it, such as the Ma'ale Al-Salabin path that starts in the sculpture garden, and the Hoya Dolorosa path that descends from the Carmelite monastery to Bishop Hajar Square.
Less concrete, more scenery
As for an artificial lake, there is no need for it
When there is a sea and a natural forest, they must be preserved and nurtured
A municipality with a vision, there is none in Haifa, there are only workers who dream in their sleep, but a vision? never happened and never existed. point.
All the best to you, attorney Inbal Chen in the car. Have a good week everyone.
400 apartments in Tel Aviv are being built in one tower in the wholesale market
It is not clear to me why not do a project like Panorama Towers at the edge of the area with 400 apartments in two towers
and leave all the rest of the area open. If all you want to get is 400 apartments, you can do it on a tenth of the area.
I thought to Tommy that the State of Israel is small and it is important to properly utilize space and leave open space for future generations in a crowded country.
It turns out that our bad planning bodies think that the construction should be laid out in the most wasteful way with the least amount of space left open.
Not related to the friendship park, or the friendships or the brotherhood.
Related to poor planning of an area that should remain open for future generations when there will be an evacuation of dense construction in all the surrounding neighborhoods and it will be the urban park for tens of thousands of other families around.
Important article Inbal Chen-Bergav. Shalom and blessed Sabbath.
Instead of a palatial park with an explosive name, they will dig a lake with shady walking paths around it and nice benches, all with a natural appearance, a sort of mini Central Park connected but separated by a stylish gate to the Bahai Garden with the obelisk that will open in a controlled manner while the park itself will be open 24 hours a day. And of course with the path overlooking the bay at the edge of the park.
Nothing will help them, Haifa's corrupt engineering manager sells everyone and everything to contractors and capitalists.
Several friends reminded me that 20 years ago at the end of Mitzna's tenure, they participated in a public conference regarding the vacated base area. After that, the finished plan was presented which included the monastery, both sides of Stella Maris road and the hill in front of Tschernihovski Street. There was a combination of tiered hotels near the monastery, of construction on the side of Tschernihovsky Street for residences and commerce and a park with a cliff promenade.
It is not clear why when there was already a plan that was approved in 2004 - HF/545/d, they came and made another one, much worse than it in terms of the utilization of the space and the preservation of the open space in favor of a city park. Perhaps the Grinstein-Hargil architectural office can give the simulation of how it was planned then, why did they come and change what was already agreed upon?
Eyal, these are 2 separate programs. Your and your friends memories are correct. The plan that was submitted at the time dealt in part with the area adjacent to the Carmelite Order complex (the church, the monastery and the guest house for pilgrims, the garden and the small Via Del Rosa route) from the southeast (there was also an IDF base there in the past, and when the area was vacated it was returned to the Carmelite Order). It seems that the Carmelite Order did not want to realize the The plan approved at the time was to leave the area untouched.
The area in question today, of another IDF base that is supposed to be vacated, is the area to the east of that area. Also to the east of this area is the part that the Carmelite Order sold to the Bahá'ís in 1955 and where in 1971 they erected the obelisk to mark the composition of the Tablet of Carmel by the Bahá'ís -Allah in 1891 during a visit here.
So the Garden of Friendship, which the alternative plan proposes for the place, is, among other things, also a symbolic place for the closeness between the religions in the middle between parts of the Carmelite Order and the Baha'i religion.