(Hai Pa) - In just two months (February-March 2024) the residents of Arlozorov Street are forced to go down to the road and risk their lives instead of walking on the sidewalk that is blocked by a collapsed wall.
The residents are forced to go down to the road risking their lives in order to pass
About two months ago (January 2024) a wall collapsed on Arlozorov Street 93 and blocked the sidewalk. Since then, the residents, mostly children and the elderly, have been forced to go down to the road risking their lives in order to cross. The residents waited for the Haifa Municipality to handle it, but nothing was done except erecting a fence around the sidewalk and warning of danger. When the residents contacted the municipality to deal with the hazard, they were surprised to receive the answer: it was a private wall.
It is important to note that this is a main street in a central area where there are many kindergartens and a school, and the population in the area includes many children and the elderly, for whom crossing the sidewalk is extremely important.
A resident of the place, Selva Lipkind, says in a conversation with Lahi Fa:
The situation is dangerous and this is lawlessness. This is a public area and the sidewalk is a public sidewalk. Me, my wife and my daughter have to go down to the road every day and cross the road instead of the blocked sidewalk. It is important to ask ourselves what about the many children who are forced to risk their lives and what about the elderly who walk with shopping baskets? I contacted the Haifa municipality as well as the public complaints and the answer was that it is a private wall and they will not remove the stones and sand blocking the sidewalk. I repeat that the issue is dangerous and it is important to address it immediately before a disaster occurs.
Haifa Municipality gave a response to Haifa:
At 93 Arlozorov St., a private wall hook, the responsibility for its repair rests with the property owner. In the interim period until the owners of the property take care of the private wall - the municipality will work to provide a temporary solution to regulate the passage of pedestrians, their safety and will perform appropriate fencing to prevent danger.
It is true that the wall is private, but the sidewalk is public. The municipality should demand that the owner of the property make repairs within a specified time...otherwise the municipality repairs at its own expense and submits the bill to the owner of the property...for this the municipality has a legal department.
Shameful situation... the city is collapsing... and nobody cares...
Why is this a private wall? Does anyone understand? The lawlessness..must be taken care of..the shape of this city is falling apart..shame..really shame on us. The highest property tax in the country....
You are right, and still as I wrote there is a situation that legally, legally, it is indeed a private wall! Then the municipality owes nothing. In an ideal world she would correct, but we are far from that.
and exerting pressure or sanctions on him to remove the safety hazard he is responsible for from the public space?
It's not clear from the article, you should find out where it stands and be updated, otherwise it's just an open-ended article and beyond oppressing everyone, you've done nothing.
At the corner of Hapoel and Leon Bloom, the same thing is happening, and it's been more than half a year, if not longer!!!
Uri is right, the municipality owes nothing to anyone.
The employees of Haifa Municipality are only obligated to take care of salaries
The mayor is only obligated to give everyone a paid deputy mayor...
The municipal employees move around the city only by car,
They even have vehicles on behalf of the municipality
That's why they don't care what happens on the sidewalks in the city.
They don't live there, they just pass by on the way to and from the office in the mountain.
As an old municipal employee told me:
"Maybe the municipality should move from Hadar, Hadar is a neglected neighborhood"
LOL
There is a problem with the procedures and the law since the mandatory time, since then there has been a sidewalk and infrastructure levy on building owners and in fact, the building owners are the ones who paid for the infrastructure bordering the street, and sometimes also for paving the sidewalk when the building was constructed. If you bring up press archives, the municipality of Haifa would issue a demand or 'pavement levy' and you will find hundreds of such publications since the 40s. For example, in 1952, a significant group of plot owners, residents of Lotus Street in Carmel, which was partly a dirt road at the time, were required to pave sidewalks according to specifications given to them by the city engineer's office, at their own expense, or otherwise finance them out of their own pockets, within a limited time frame. Even today, part of the 'improvement levy' goes to the benefit of paving a sidewalk and building infrastructure bordering a street - and is paid by the contractor/tenants, what is Shamshit. Absurdly at times, the responsibility and ownership of the property owners.
Unfortunately, in many cases, from a dry legal point of view, the municipality may indeed not be obligated to repair the defect! And in that case, she will demand this correction from the property owners. problem…
We must find a solution within the framework of the new mayor..
Since when are sidewalks private property and since when are fences private property? You should have pressed harder before the elections. Maybe they would fix it. Do a loud strike in front of the municipality.
When someone is run over there, they will fix it quickly