Haifa Airport: The expansion of use for international and domestic flights has been approved

(haipo) - The Committee for National Infrastructures approved Sub-Tall 80 A - Haifa Airport, which will allow for regulating and expanding the use of the airport for flights to international and national destinations for commercial and general aviation, while establishing restrictions on construction and land uses in the area surrounding the airport.

The committee approved the plan after the plan's researcher, Ilana Rodashevski, detailed to her the main comments and achievements submitted to the plan and her recommendations regarding them, as well as after hearing the subcommittee's decision No. 06/2023 of 23/10/23 and holding a discussion in which the representatives of the Civil Aviation Authority spoke, which serves as a regulator for the issues under discussion, their reasoned professional position in relation to the various issues.

As you know, Haifa Airport was established by the British in 1934 as part of an international transport infrastructure system in the Kishon Bay, which included the airport, the seaport and the central railway terminal. The airport is marked in TMA / 15, a national outline plan for the expansion of airports as a level 2 field in use. It is an existing and active field since its establishment, and it operates under mandatory plans, and other plans that set construction restrictions in order to prevent damage to the air activity that takes place at the airport. Sub-plan "L 80 A, which includes the provisions of a detailed plan, is intended to regulate and develop the activities of the field and includes, among other things, a mandatory appendix regarding the restrictions that the field imposes on its environment with regard to aircraft noise, building height restrictions and reducing bird hazards to aviation.

The committee adopted the subcommittee's decision and the researcher's recommendations in the report, subject to the changes and corrections that were made, among other things: in areas where a regional relief from the height restrictions was approved by the Civil Aviation Authority (RATA), it will be possible to approve a new plan that deviates from the construction height restrictions even without The approval of the Committee for the Regional Development and subject to the instructions and conditions given by RTA as part of the approval of the regional relief.

Plans in planning procedures that have not yet been approved, in which RTA approved the requested exception to the height restrictions after 3/6/2019 and until this plan is approved, will be exempt from the need for the approval of the Planning Committee and RTA approval regarding height restrictions only. For the avoidance of doubt, section This will not apply to deviations in the plan that were not approved by RTA and/or to plans whose instructions did not incorporate RTA requirements regarding flight safety, including instructions regarding the approval of detailed plans and/or the granting of permits.
The plan does not damage existing construction and does not cancel approved plans.
The maximum building height under regional relief includes the auxiliary facilities for construction unless otherwise determined in the plan approved by RTA.

The plan does not cancel the KtsA strip and the power line strips in TMA /10 c/ 3 and TMA /10 a/ 4 but imposes height restrictions as stated in the plan. Also, the plan is not subject to TMA 1025 but is subject to TMA / 37 b.
A definition for regional relief will be added.
The monitoring team will be established within 90 days of the approval of the plan.
The decision was made by majority vote.

Many objections were submitted to the program - by entrepreneurs, landowners, local authorities, infrastructure bodies, environmental protection bodies and associations, the Israel Land Authority, and more. Among the winners were real estate developers, represented by the Anat Biran office - lawyers, operating in Nesher and Kiryat Bialik, as well as the Kiryat Yam Hashiv New Company, a subsidiary of Kashret Hashav, which has an approved urban renewal plan for renewing a permanent army complex in Kiryat Yam. The developers Obtained on the building height restrictions set forth in TTL 80 A. In this rule, it is argued that the building height restrictions may completely torpedo a large part of the urban renewal projects, which naturally involve significant construction to height, as well as destroy any planning certainty in relation to the promotion of projects of this type. The height restrictions were also opposed by the local authorities of Kiryat Bialik and Kiryat Ata, the Slopes of Carmel regional committee as well as Rami. The Kiryat Yam company, the new settlement, even claimed that the plan was approved back in November 2021 by the district committee after the approval of the Civil Aviation Authority, and it allows construction to a height that exceeds the limits of the underground "To.

In response to these claims, the Airports Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority presented a response that referred, among other things, to regional aeronautical surveys that had already been carried out in the area of ​​the cities of Kiryat Yam and Nesher, and in the area of ​​TAMA 75. Following this, the researcher recommended that a background appendix be attached to the Tal, in which the areas of exclusion would be marked as that are reflected in the approved aeronautical surveys, so that the plans that are compatible with the already approved reliefs for construction at height, within the framework of the completed surveys, will be able to be promoted without the long process in front of RTA and the Committee for Aircraft Noise Complexes, even if the proposed height does not comply with the The limitations of the TTL itself. Thus, in fact the approved plan of the new settlement Kiryat Yam Company is also valid and it will be possible to implement it and issue building permits on its basis, without requiring additional approval from the Committee for the Land Registry, RTA or any other entity regarding the maximum building height .

Attorney Efrat Lerner and Ina Tal from the office of Anat Biran - lawyers: "It is evident that the researcher of the program was attentive to the claims we made to her in the submissions, in the discussion of the submissions, and also afterwards as part of the completion of the argument we submitted. The researcher's recommendations that were received will significantly increase the planning certainty for entrepreneurs operating in the area and facilitate the promotion of construction plans in these areas in terms of building height restrictions as well as their implementation of approved programs".