Hundreds came to a protest demonstration against the plan to build a hotel on the territory of the casino and the mythical pool in Bat Galim • Broadcast from the field
A protest demonstration against the plan to build a hotel on the grounds of the casino (Photo: Chai Pa-TV)
The casino plan and the residents' struggle
(haipo) - The protest against the plan to build a hotel on the casino grounds is gaining tremendous momentum. The residents of the neighborhood organized a picnic, which includes information, creative workshops and integration of the opponents.
Dr. Nir Barak - the demonstration for the future of the casino - Bat Galim (photo: Hai Fa-TV, presenter: Aki Flexer)
Dr. Nir Barak: The purpose of the meeting is to raise awareness among the residents of the neighborhood about the issue of the land intended for public use and the temptation to change the designation to private land. We are building public power in order to change the course of the plan and strive for real public participation regarding the future of the place.
Omer Cohen - an activist in the struggle headquarters
Omer Cohen - activist at the headquarters of the struggle - the demonstration for the future of the casino - Bat Galim (photo: Chai Pa-TV, presenter: Aki Flexer)
Omer Cohen: The H/P 2000 plan states that the area is public and not private. The difficulty is that the committee can also change the designation of the land.
Naama Sherid - geologist and marine engineering consultant
Naama Sherid - the demonstration for the future of the casino - Bat Galim (photo: Hai Pa-TV, presenter: Aki Flexer)
Naama Sherid: Fear of additional construction at the water line, to protect the hotel. Fear of further damage to the marine environment. A thorough survey of the impact on the environment is required.
For further reading regarding the program at hand and the residents' struggle:
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To all the robots of all kinds: everywhere in the world near the sea or the lake, gardens are made, gardens are for the benefit of the public, there is a law that it is forbidden to build at a distance of at least 100 m from the water, where will the cars park after 4 hotels have already been approved in Bat Galim, one right across from the planned hotel, what With parking for the residents of the street itself, even now there is a parking problem,
In 2017 Dankner's proposal for 68 rooms was rejected, how did we arrive at the request for 120 hotel rooms,
Won't it look like something dirty is happening before our eyes?
Lots of people with the same reaction.
The developer hired a PR firm to do spinology?
You know why it's transparent because it's the same message page with the words: Let Haifa develop, you prevent development, you drive entrepreneurs away, that's why there is no development
Too transparent.
Another handful of morons who want to leave a ghost neighborhood like the Hatikva neighborhood and the crossings of the 1950s, let Haifa develop and remove them from your holes
To all the reactions on behalf of the developer of the "Development Opponents" these were the identical reactions of the owners of the dolphinarium until he realized that the Tel Aviv Municipality would not let him take over the stretch of beach "The Drummer's Beach"
It's a shame that the Haifa municipality is so weak and desperate for levies.
Also to produce in the pool area near the casino a new beach = development.
Also to create a surfing and marine activity center in the casino area = development.
Don't talk about "residents against development"
We are in favor of a development that will benefit the neighborhood and the general public who deserve bathing beaches.
The beach in Bat Galim is already blown up in the summer and it is impossible to move. It must be expanded.
Another example of the boundless powers of the old-new Mayor Tahala in making decisions. Before the establishment of the terminal for performances in the port which became the biggest nuisance in the city for the surrounding residents, and now there is an attempt to build a hotel that will change the character of the Bat Galim neighborhood, instead of turning it into an attractive and interesting public place.
This is Kaplan, they are testing how much they control public order through their demonstrations
And some authority is revoked to them
Everything here is a game of the left
But they are at the end of theirs they are butterflies
The residents of Haifa are to blame for the fact that Haifa is left behind, every project or development is opposed by thousands of objections and the result is seen, an old and outdated city
As a native of Bat Galim and one who swam in the blessing. The casino has been stuck for years and we have been complaining about it all the time. New residents who arrived (Tel Avivim) who seem to like to demonstrate as a sport have raised the prices of apartments by hundreds of percent taking over Bat Galim. I didn't understand which is better, a boutique hotel or a ruin. I have a feeling they have a financial interest. You destroyed the beautiful Bat Galim
Your problem is that you are convinced that it is either a boutique hotel - plus two floors and the construction of additional buildings in the pool area within the boundaries of a private beach - or an abandoned building. The narrative the municipality is trying to sell is worse than a bad joke. It is forbidden to build on the water line, so this is a valuable asset that the municipality needs to put on its back legs in protecting it. In what country and in what parallel universe would different entrepreneurs be allowed to have a closed and neglected central beach for decades? For a long time the municipality had to lease the area or reach an exchange agreement with the owner. There is also a limit to the right to property, otherwise we have no resurrection.
The mayor since taking office has only destroyed nature, it's just shocking what he's doing
In the current situation, in the coming years, there is no need for new hotels, especially not on the coastline. No city in Israel has allowed to build either kiosks or hotels on the beaches. Tel Aviv destroyed the dolphinarium and opened a new bathing beach.
We need to demonstrate and demand that the Haifa municipality bulldoze the fences of the pool area, immediately expand the bathing beach with a new breakwater after the casino building and open the pool area as a new bathing beach for the benefit of the Israeli people who need every possibility of recreation during the difficult war.
Instead of promoting to billionaire real estate sharks yet another project to take over public resources in this small country, it's time for someone to stop and take the right step and promote the return of the pool area for the benefit of the public and the building for public use that the developer will rent to sailing and surfing clubs.
The public wants the casino beach.
As a native of Bat Galim neighborhoods, I feel a personal obligation to comment here on everything that happens in our Bat Galim neighborhood, which is considered the crown jewel of the city of Haifa with a unique past that never existed in any Israeli city neighborhoods!
The casino and the swimming pool and the sea, were a focus for multiple activities starting from the time of the British rule, when our dear parents came to spend time in the casino, it is hard to digest that the past was destroyed before our eyes! And if the developer gets what he wants, then we will not be able to let the unbearable situation, indeed, take place and we will all stand as a protective wall to stop once and for all the takeover by the capitalists of those sites that are so important to us as cloaks from the past and the present!
In light of Eyal's professional review, see response, all construction in Bat Galim should be stopped and an inspection immediately ordered
How did the fiasco of
Destroy the most beautiful neighborhood in the State of Israel and prevent the construction of the towers
In the neighborhood and where was his father Han before
5 years ? 10 years ago ?
15 years ago?
How did Haifa Municipality allow the destruction?
Bat Galim and what is the lot of Einat Kalish
And of the planning sickness?
How did Sarit Golan make it possible?
In short, how did the residents of Haifa work for us
And how are we going to destroy our lives?
The demonstration for the cancellation of the sale of public beach space at the water line to a private developer for a hotel / event hall is justified and welcome. But the neighborhood committee, for some reasons, perhaps also personal financial ones, is hiding the biggest danger that is coming to the door of the neighborhood, when in 5 years it will become clear in all its strength.
Bat Galim, which today has 4000 residents in about 2000 apartments, a large part of which are small and rented, is going to triple (yes x3!!) the number of apartments to 6,000 units and the number of residents to about 20 thousand inhabitants.
So that if today in TMA 38 in the neighborhood the residents feel overcrowding and traffic jams, in 5-10 years you will look back to 2024 with nostalgia in everything related to the Bat Galim situation, and perhaps hold your head and say how did we agree to such an amount of construction without any change in infrastructure and public buildings? On the contrary - while robbing The casino and more than a little beach where there are bathing beaches?
Wait, you say: He is exaggerating, an addition of at least 4000 apartments in Bat Galim? Let's check: the settlement training company advances 725 units instead of 175 (+550). Tidhar and partners won the brigade housing tender, where they will demolish 300 apartments and build 1000 (+700). Africa Israel and Tzemach Hammerman will demolish 119 apartments and build 467 new ones (+348) A similar project with another 500 units (+350) is planned in the housing estates along the second rise. At least 1300+ units have been approved. 38 units will be added in the Tama 500 pipeline projects.
Not only the number of units, but the construction approved for them, when all are concentrated along the second elevation, will create a wall of between 25 and 33 stories. In the Africa-Tzemach Hammarman project alone, there are 3 towers of 33 stories, each 115 meters high. For comparison The huge Faculty of Medicine tower is 75 meters high, so add another 40 meters to receive the wall that will be created at the entrance to the neighborhood from the three giant towers, to which 10 more such towers will be added in the future along the second Aliya street.
How the residents of Kiryat Eliezer do not create an action committee in front of the 100-meter-high wall that will be erected and end their entire sea view slide from the brigade housing to the port of Haifa - is not clear.
How do the residents of Bat Galim not discuss and some of them are not aware of what will happen in the coming years when the neighborhood becomes a construction site, will be blocked by hundreds of trucks - this is an entire neighborhood on one and only access road along its length) and will have to deal with the addition of at least 5-6 thousand vehicles, and with Extreme lack of kindergartens, schools, lack of public gardens and lack of public buildings for residents.
You are the current city engineer, it is not interesting. It will soon be replaced, some plans have already received permits to start demolition and construction, the developers are pressing, the state is pressing, the owners of the investment apartments are pressing -
And the Haifa municipality didn't even bother to produce a computer model that would show what the neighborhood will look like at the end of the evacuation-construction projects, how thousands more vehicles will enter and leave the neighborhood if it is already congested today, what shadows and extreme wind regime will be created by the 33-story towers and what kind of obscuring the view will be from the huge wall built along the street The second ascent of the mountain to the neighborhood and of the sea to the neighborhoods behind Bat Galim, Kiryat Eliezer, Allenby and Kiryat Eliyahu.
The amazing thing is that the Haifa municipality is acting contrary to policy documents it itself created, which limited construction to a height of 22 stories.
When the residents of the neighborhood wake up and try to stop the tsunami of terrible construction on the grounds of severe nuisances, the blocking of access to the neighborhood, the lack of sufficient public buildings, huge traffic jams, and extreme overcrowding in all the infrastructures of the neighborhood - they will find that the developers are not interested, the municipality is not interested (last term of The mayor, what does he care?). Everyone wants to report on construction volumes in Haifa and Manofif, and the old and new residents of Bat Galim will be left to endure extreme overcrowding, the like of which has not been planned in any neighborhood in Israel so far. Bat Galim is an experiment on humans, and not only does the municipality not work in advance to prepare infrastructure and public buildings, but it approves another construction that will damage the neighborhood and the beaches that belong to all Israeli residents:
The casino building and another structure that will take away the little that can be used to expand the bathing beaches, a plan at Rambam Hospital to build 4-5 more hospital towers, the need to raise the boardwalk due to floods every winter in the neighborhood, the bus routes that continue to terminate lines and a lack of educational buildings in the neighborhood.
As mentioned, the municipality is not interested in anything, they only see the money that will come in from construction levies from the developers. The developers only see the profits from the apartments. And the tenants will only get the new apartment.
No one can even imagine what they will do to Bat Galim with the compression of 20,000 residents, 5 times the situation today.
You don't understand anything…
Haifa Municipality is planning a special neighborhood here where cars are not needed. Even the 33-story buildings are built 30 stories into the ground. And everything is filled with stainless steel tin. As with the tracker.
Irresponsible density. There is one sports field in the whole neighborhood and it is also on the boardwalk, so people from outside the neighborhood come to it to play. There is no sports hall in the entire neighborhood. Not 4000 and not for 20 thousand. In every other neighborhood there was an outcry
of residents whose children wander and have nowhere to play, but in Bat Galim they both wander and the neighborhood is full of dubious types, sometimes criminal gangs who come to Rambam beat the police with loud music and drunks on the beach and driving instructors who really love Bat Galim with the Dolphin intersection and regularly show dozens of them all the time because It is close to the exam venue.
You can't go on like this. Already now for the information of the new residents, the neighborhood is in distress, there is no normal commercial center, there is no sports center, there is no peace, there is a constant noise of ambulance vehicles, military trucks and what not.
Just so you know what you're getting into, the neighborhood is suffering now, so think about thousands more new residents, and instead of couples or students who rented small apartments, families needing playgrounds and children will now move in.
There will be a catastrophe. We are selling and moving to a quiet neighborhood. We don't want to live with a construction site in front of the brigade, which in 10 years will be a huge construction site with hundreds of trucks every day. Hello and thank you and goodbye and bye
Precisely when they want to put an end to the decades-old ugliness of the casino structure, they come to demonstrate against the blessed initiative???
What happens to the residents of Bat Galim? Have you lost your mind?
I don't understand, why did you suddenly wake up now? For decades the place has been empty and neglected. No one tweeted. Now there is a plan, and various objections have appeared…..it is not clear what problems they are raising and it is not clear why only now……!
Wake up now because the plan is not good. Any of the brains would have told you before that the place needs to be developed and a plan created for the place and advance Bat Galim into the 21st century even before.
But what to do, the Haifa municipality is a weak body without a vision and the place is privately owned, so the protestors' statement would have fallen on deaf ears. The municipality must invest money or find ways to compensate the developer because the sea is a valuable public resource.
Unfortunately, the developers control the politicians, and the Haifa Municipality, a body that is supposed to represent the public, is so weak and rotten that it easily surrenders to the developer at the expense of the public itself.
You should thank the residents who express the true meaning of democracy - public rule - and replace the Haifa municipality with its injustices.
right. A long time ago, it should have been explained to the municipality of Haifa that it is improper to allow a private owner to demarcate an area of a beach and neglect it for decades. It is not customary and improper. And you won't find anything like this anywhere in the world. The municipality could and had to take the area just as the railway expropriated areas when needed for a public purpose. For this there is a battery of lawyers and negotiations. There is no reason to give in to the whims of an entrepreneur who only sees the profit line. And even now this is exactly what the municipality should do. Bargain, offer him something else and develop the beach and the building for the benefit of the public and travelers in the neighborhood. preserve nature. on the space. on the landscape Not sure what you're asking anyway. Instead, developers run riot in the neighborhood and erase all its advantages one after the other without any hindrance, amid the cheers of residents and veterans who left long ago and their children lamenting the current residents of the neighborhood who love it.
10 likes!!! How right you are.
It's time for a social protest.. Kudos to the residents... going to destroy this cute neighborhood. With crazy high-rise construction... without considering the residents of course. Only real estate real estate and money money money…..so better late than never… good luck to the residents… keep this beautiful corner of nature at all costs…
Kudos to the "warriors" for the beauty of the city of Haifa in general and the Bat Galim dekhonat, dear to all of us, in particular. Areas that are defined as "brown" must be used by the public!! The thought of turning the casino into a hotel is unacceptable, the preference of an entrepreneur who will get rich at the expense of the public when the residents of Bat Galim do not have proper community centers, without the participation of the public and especially the residents of the neighborhood is inappropriate!!
That the place will continue to be a desolate and ruined skeleton for decades, in your opinion, changes to the character of the city and the neighborhood……?! This probably indicates your own character
A picture of what...?? A crime city. Secular mixed with Russian Arabs and Jews who left and forgot what Judaism is? There are no normal municipal services. A maze of exits and entrances with no way out. Long years of neglect and many of the apartments and houses are abandoned waiting for an increase in value of what?? will become gold and diamonds?? I'm really sorry that I came to live in this empty city. The last city that reminds me of Jaffa and its branches.
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To all the robots of all kinds: everywhere in the world near the sea or the lake, gardens are made, gardens are for the benefit of the public, there is a law that it is forbidden to build at a distance of at least 100 m from the water, where will the cars park after 4 hotels have already been approved in Bat Galim, one right across from the planned hotel, what With parking for the residents of the street itself, even now there is a parking problem,
In 2017 Dankner's proposal for 68 rooms was rejected, how did we arrive at the request for 120 hotel rooms,
Won't it look like something dirty is happening before our eyes?
Finally... let it be built. End these delays... let the neighborhood develop.
Lots of people with the same reaction.
The developer hired a PR firm to do spinology?
You know why it's transparent because it's the same message page with the words: Let Haifa develop, you prevent development, you drive entrepreneurs away, that's why there is no development
Too transparent.
What is the problem if you build a hotel?
I'm not saying that we shouldn't build...but while consulting and considering the residents....not turning the place into a big construction site...
Who are the 150 thousand you speak for?
Hundreds came but 150 thousand are in favor and now!!
So let's start the restoration process of the casino
As a Haifaite, I really don't understand what bothers them, this hazard will only foster the disgusting Bat Galim that looks like her past
very true
Another handful of morons who want to leave a ghost neighborhood like the Hatikva neighborhood and the crossings of the 1950s, let Haifa develop and remove them from your holes
To all the reactions on behalf of the developer of the "Development Opponents" these were the identical reactions of the owners of the dolphinarium until he realized that the Tel Aviv Municipality would not let him take over the stretch of beach "The Drummer's Beach"
It's a shame that the Haifa municipality is so weak and desperate for levies.
Also to produce in the pool area near the casino a new beach = development.
Also to create a surfing and marine activity center in the casino area = development.
Don't talk about "residents against development"
We are in favor of a development that will benefit the neighborhood and the general public who deserve bathing beaches.
The beach in Bat Galim is already blown up in the summer and it is impossible to move. It must be expanded.
Another example of the boundless powers of the old-new Mayor Tahala in making decisions. Before the establishment of the terminal for performances in the port which became the biggest nuisance in the city for the surrounding residents, and now there is an attempt to build a hotel that will change the character of the Bat Galim neighborhood, instead of turning it into an attractive and interesting public place.
So this is better, neglected, crumbling and full of homeless people and drug addicts??? How many more years will it stay like this???
This is Kaplan, they are testing how much they control public order through their demonstrations
And some authority is revoked to them
Everything here is a game of the left
But they are at the end of theirs they are butterflies
The residents of Haifa are to blame for the fact that Haifa is left behind, every project or development is opposed by thousands of objections and the result is seen, an old and outdated city
As a native of Bat Galim and one who swam in the blessing. The casino has been stuck for years and we have been complaining about it all the time. New residents who arrived (Tel Avivim) who seem to like to demonstrate as a sport have raised the prices of apartments by hundreds of percent taking over Bat Galim. I didn't understand which is better, a boutique hotel or a ruin. I have a feeling they have a financial interest. You destroyed the beautiful Bat Galim
Your problem is that you are convinced that it is either a boutique hotel - plus two floors and the construction of additional buildings in the pool area within the boundaries of a private beach - or an abandoned building. The narrative the municipality is trying to sell is worse than a bad joke. It is forbidden to build on the water line, so this is a valuable asset that the municipality needs to put on its back legs in protecting it. In what country and in what parallel universe would different entrepreneurs be allowed to have a closed and neglected central beach for decades? For a long time the municipality had to lease the area or reach an exchange agreement with the owner. There is also a limit to the right to property, otherwise we have no resurrection.
The mayor since taking office has only destroyed nature, it's just shocking what he's doing
Right. This is evil or stupidity or both. There has never been such bad governance for such a beautiful city.
Since he took office, he has had enough of only destruction and destruction in Haifa
In the current situation, in the coming years, there is no need for new hotels, especially not on the coastline. No city in Israel has allowed to build either kiosks or hotels on the beaches. Tel Aviv destroyed the dolphinarium and opened a new bathing beach.
We need to demonstrate and demand that the Haifa municipality bulldoze the fences of the pool area, immediately expand the bathing beach with a new breakwater after the casino building and open the pool area as a new bathing beach for the benefit of the Israeli people who need every possibility of recreation during the difficult war.
Instead of promoting to billionaire real estate sharks yet another project to take over public resources in this small country, it's time for someone to stop and take the right step and promote the return of the pool area for the benefit of the public and the building for public use that the developer will rent to sailing and surfing clubs.
The public wants the casino beach.
As a native of Bat Galim neighborhoods, I feel a personal obligation to comment here on everything that happens in our Bat Galim neighborhood, which is considered the crown jewel of the city of Haifa with a unique past that never existed in any Israeli city neighborhoods!
The casino and the swimming pool and the sea, were a focus for multiple activities starting from the time of the British rule, when our dear parents came to spend time in the casino, it is hard to digest that the past was destroyed before our eyes! And if the developer gets what he wants, then we will not be able to let the unbearable situation, indeed, take place and we will all stand as a protective wall to stop once and for all the takeover by the capitalists of those sites that are so important to us as cloaks from the past and the present!
In light of Eyal's professional review, see response, all construction in Bat Galim should be stopped and an inspection immediately ordered
How did the fiasco of
Destroy the most beautiful neighborhood in the State of Israel and prevent the construction of the towers
In the neighborhood and where was his father Han before
5 years ? 10 years ago ?
15 years ago?
How did Haifa Municipality allow the destruction?
Bat Galim and what is the lot of Einat Kalish
And of the planning sickness?
How did Sarit Golan make it possible?
In short, how did the residents of Haifa work for us
And how are we going to destroy our lives?
The demonstration for the cancellation of the sale of public beach space at the water line to a private developer for a hotel / event hall is justified and welcome. But the neighborhood committee, for some reasons, perhaps also personal financial ones, is hiding the biggest danger that is coming to the door of the neighborhood, when in 5 years it will become clear in all its strength.
Bat Galim, which today has 4000 residents in about 2000 apartments, a large part of which are small and rented, is going to triple (yes x3!!) the number of apartments to 6,000 units and the number of residents to about 20 thousand inhabitants.
So that if today in TMA 38 in the neighborhood the residents feel overcrowding and traffic jams, in 5-10 years you will look back to 2024 with nostalgia in everything related to the Bat Galim situation, and perhaps hold your head and say how did we agree to such an amount of construction without any change in infrastructure and public buildings? On the contrary - while robbing The casino and more than a little beach where there are bathing beaches?
Wait, you say: He is exaggerating, an addition of at least 4000 apartments in Bat Galim? Let's check: the settlement training company advances 725 units instead of 175 (+550). Tidhar and partners won the brigade housing tender, where they will demolish 300 apartments and build 1000 (+700). Africa Israel and Tzemach Hammerman will demolish 119 apartments and build 467 new ones (+348) A similar project with another 500 units (+350) is planned in the housing estates along the second rise. At least 1300+ units have been approved. 38 units will be added in the Tama 500 pipeline projects.
Not only the number of units, but the construction approved for them, when all are concentrated along the second elevation, will create a wall of between 25 and 33 stories. In the Africa-Tzemach Hammarman project alone, there are 3 towers of 33 stories, each 115 meters high. For comparison The huge Faculty of Medicine tower is 75 meters high, so add another 40 meters to receive the wall that will be created at the entrance to the neighborhood from the three giant towers, to which 10 more such towers will be added in the future along the second Aliya street.
How the residents of Kiryat Eliezer do not create an action committee in front of the 100-meter-high wall that will be erected and end their entire sea view slide from the brigade housing to the port of Haifa - is not clear.
How do the residents of Bat Galim not discuss and some of them are not aware of what will happen in the coming years when the neighborhood becomes a construction site, will be blocked by hundreds of trucks - this is an entire neighborhood on one and only access road along its length) and will have to deal with the addition of at least 5-6 thousand vehicles, and with Extreme lack of kindergartens, schools, lack of public gardens and lack of public buildings for residents.
You are the current city engineer, it is not interesting. It will soon be replaced, some plans have already received permits to start demolition and construction, the developers are pressing, the state is pressing, the owners of the investment apartments are pressing -
And the Haifa municipality didn't even bother to produce a computer model that would show what the neighborhood will look like at the end of the evacuation-construction projects, how thousands more vehicles will enter and leave the neighborhood if it is already congested today, what shadows and extreme wind regime will be created by the 33-story towers and what kind of obscuring the view will be from the huge wall built along the street The second ascent of the mountain to the neighborhood and of the sea to the neighborhoods behind Bat Galim, Kiryat Eliezer, Allenby and Kiryat Eliyahu.
The amazing thing is that the Haifa municipality is acting contrary to policy documents it itself created, which limited construction to a height of 22 stories.
When the residents of the neighborhood wake up and try to stop the tsunami of terrible construction on the grounds of severe nuisances, the blocking of access to the neighborhood, the lack of sufficient public buildings, huge traffic jams, and extreme overcrowding in all the infrastructures of the neighborhood - they will find that the developers are not interested, the municipality is not interested (last term of The mayor, what does he care?). Everyone wants to report on construction volumes in Haifa and Manofif, and the old and new residents of Bat Galim will be left to endure extreme overcrowding, the like of which has not been planned in any neighborhood in Israel so far. Bat Galim is an experiment on humans, and not only does the municipality not work in advance to prepare infrastructure and public buildings, but it approves another construction that will damage the neighborhood and the beaches that belong to all Israeli residents:
The casino building and another structure that will take away the little that can be used to expand the bathing beaches, a plan at Rambam Hospital to build 4-5 more hospital towers, the need to raise the boardwalk due to floods every winter in the neighborhood, the bus routes that continue to terminate lines and a lack of educational buildings in the neighborhood.
As mentioned, the municipality is not interested in anything, they only see the money that will come in from construction levies from the developers. The developers only see the profits from the apartments. And the tenants will only get the new apartment.
No one can even imagine what they will do to Bat Galim with the compression of 20,000 residents, 5 times the situation today.
You don't understand anything…
Haifa Municipality is planning a special neighborhood here where cars are not needed. Even the 33-story buildings are built 30 stories into the ground. And everything is filled with stainless steel tin. As with the tracker.
Irresponsible density. There is one sports field in the whole neighborhood and it is also on the boardwalk, so people from outside the neighborhood come to it to play. There is no sports hall in the entire neighborhood. Not 4000 and not for 20 thousand. In every other neighborhood there was an outcry
of residents whose children wander and have nowhere to play, but in Bat Galim they both wander and the neighborhood is full of dubious types, sometimes criminal gangs who come to Rambam beat the police with loud music and drunks on the beach and driving instructors who really love Bat Galim with the Dolphin intersection and regularly show dozens of them all the time because It is close to the exam venue.
You can't go on like this. Already now for the information of the new residents, the neighborhood is in distress, there is no normal commercial center, there is no sports center, there is no peace, there is a constant noise of ambulance vehicles, military trucks and what not.
Just so you know what you're getting into, the neighborhood is suffering now, so think about thousands more new residents, and instead of couples or students who rented small apartments, families needing playgrounds and children will now move in.
There will be a catastrophe. We are selling and moving to a quiet neighborhood. We don't want to live with a construction site in front of the brigade, which in 10 years will be a huge construction site with hundreds of trucks every day. Hello and thank you and goodbye and bye
Precisely when they want to put an end to the decades-old ugliness of the casino structure, they come to demonstrate against the blessed initiative???
What happens to the residents of Bat Galim? Have you lost your mind?
I don't understand, why did you suddenly wake up now? For decades the place has been empty and neglected. No one tweeted. Now there is a plan, and various objections have appeared…..it is not clear what problems they are raising and it is not clear why only now……!
Wake up now because the plan is not good. Any of the brains would have told you before that the place needs to be developed and a plan created for the place and advance Bat Galim into the 21st century even before.
But what to do, the Haifa municipality is a weak body without a vision and the place is privately owned, so the protestors' statement would have fallen on deaf ears. The municipality must invest money or find ways to compensate the developer because the sea is a valuable public resource.
Unfortunately, the developers control the politicians, and the Haifa Municipality, a body that is supposed to represent the public, is so weak and rotten that it easily surrenders to the developer at the expense of the public itself.
You should thank the residents who express the true meaning of democracy - public rule - and replace the Haifa municipality with its injustices.
right. A long time ago, it should have been explained to the municipality of Haifa that it is improper to allow a private owner to demarcate an area of a beach and neglect it for decades. It is not customary and improper. And you won't find anything like this anywhere in the world. The municipality could and had to take the area just as the railway expropriated areas when needed for a public purpose. For this there is a battery of lawyers and negotiations. There is no reason to give in to the whims of an entrepreneur who only sees the profit line. And even now this is exactly what the municipality should do. Bargain, offer him something else and develop the beach and the building for the benefit of the public and travelers in the neighborhood. preserve nature. on the space. on the landscape Not sure what you're asking anyway. Instead, developers run riot in the neighborhood and erase all its advantages one after the other without any hindrance, amid the cheers of residents and veterans who left long ago and their children lamenting the current residents of the neighborhood who love it.
10 likes!!! How right you are.
It's time for a social protest.. Kudos to the residents... going to destroy this cute neighborhood. With crazy high-rise construction... without considering the residents of course. Only real estate real estate and money money money…..so better late than never… good luck to the residents… keep this beautiful corner of nature at all costs…
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Kudos to the "warriors" for the beauty of the city of Haifa in general and the Bat Galim dekhonat, dear to all of us, in particular. Areas that are defined as "brown" must be used by the public!! The thought of turning the casino into a hotel is unacceptable, the preference of an entrepreneur who will get rich at the expense of the public when the residents of Bat Galim do not have proper community centers, without the participation of the public and especially the residents of the neighborhood is inappropriate!!
That the place will continue to be a desolate and ruined skeleton for decades, in your opinion, changes to the character of the city and the neighborhood……?! This probably indicates your own character
A picture of what...?? A crime city. Secular mixed with Russian Arabs and Jews who left and forgot what Judaism is? There are no normal municipal services. A maze of exits and entrances with no way out. Long years of neglect and many of the apartments and houses are abandoned waiting for an increase in value of what?? will become gold and diamonds?? I'm really sorry that I came to live in this empty city. The last city that reminds me of Jaffa and its branches.