(live here) – A disabled parking space that was used for 20 years by an elderly couple (ages 86 and 91) Holocaust survivors, both with 100% disability, was canceled by a Haifa municipality decision. Their daughter, M. (name withheld), says with pain: "This is an arbitrary and cruel decision, which takes away the remnants of independence they still have."
The parking space, which the couple had used since 2005, was canceled after the municipality received complaints that it was not being used, due to the fact that the two no longer drive. However, M. explains that she is the one who drives for them, takes them to medical checkups and appointments, and has a disabled person's license.
"I come to my parents every day, take care of them and worry about them," she says. "Shunmit Street is a small dead-end street, with a severe parking shortage. How do you expect me to transport them now? Even an ambulance, which could always use this parking lot, will now have difficulty getting there."
M. claims that this is selective enforcement: "If the municipality decides to inspect the use of reserved parking spaces in the city, it should inspect all of them – not just the parking of an unhappy elderly couple who are unable to fight bureaucratic decisions. I demand that the parking space be returned to them. How much longer do they have to live? Why make it difficult for them at their age and health?"
The family expects the municipality to re-examine the decision in light of the unique circumstances, and allow the elderly couple to continue to enjoy the minimal, but so necessary, relief for them.
Haifa Municipality gave a response to Haifa:
"Haifa is home to approximately 70 seniors, in addition to many residents who have difficulty with mobility. Alongside this, the city is facing a severe parking shortage, due to the significant increase in the use of private vehicles and the lack of the possibility of adding parking spaces 'out of thin air' in built-up neighborhoods. In this situation, unfortunately, it is not possible to allocate parking in public areas to every resident who has difficulty with mobility, but only to car owners who have limited mobility and drive their own vehicles, and therefore need parking near their homes."
Any other solution would block all parking options for other residents, including other drivers with limited mobility. In this case, the parking was reviewed by an exceptions committee, which found that the couple do not drive themselves, and the applicant on their behalf is not a resident of the city. The municipality maps all disabled parking spaces every three years, and examines the need for them, in order to balance the needs of residents with disabilities and their rights with the needs of the city.
I wonder who will transfer the disabled person's parking assignment from this couple to someone else. I don't believe their explanation.
The Haifa municipality should give them back the parking. Holocaust survivors are my stars and heroes.
The state took money that was needed.
Apparently, it accepted and established institutions.
This is the time for change.
They're not at an age where they need parking, they can get by with taxis.
Enough with the hypocrisy, this serves their daughter, not them.
It's a shame to be a citizen living in Haifa when you have a municipality like this, a municipality that disdains the disabled in such a disgusting and depraved way on a level we haven't seen before. It hurts our hearts that this is what we need to hear.
Me. And my wife, give me disability. Parking. My wife is 30 years old due to a very serious car accident.
I am a dialysis patient. 5 years. There is a private closed parking lot for my wife. I am requesting 3 years. There is a parking space on the street. There is a parking bay near my house. They do not allow it. For unclear reasons. The municipality has documents that verify our situation. I requested. How many times have I met with the committee. With the mayor?
It is not acceptable for citizens to contact them. That's what I was told, it's a shame.
Itzik K. Haim from the eastern courtyard of Haifa!!!!
A sloppy answer from the municipality. We bet that if these parents were one of the functionaries in the municipality, they would not only not cancel the parking but add another couple of parking spaces, which would be. Shameful. Really.
The city of Haifa abuses the disabled. There is no public parking for the disabled on Warburg Street 96 disabled people suffer
The residents of Haifa create the hazard called overcrowding under the TAMA 38 approval, which adds hundreds of apartments with hundreds or even thousands of vehicles to each neighborhood (in one construction evacuation in Neve Sha'anan, approximately 400-500 vehicles are expected to be added to 250 apartments)
On the other hand, there is no alternative public transportation for a disabled or elderly person, which is required as a substitute for owning a private vehicle for a non-mobile population.
After all, what do elderly people who don't have a daughter do with a car that drives? That's the question that needs to be asked.
There is no need to mark tens of thousands of spaces for the disabled (the majority of them are mobile on their feet without the need for such marking at all).
There is indeed a need for urban transportation, such as special taxis that help the elderly and disabled who are unable to get to the bus, to get around the city.
If the Ministry of Transportation really cared about such populations, it would cancel all disabled tickets in Israel and create a complete system of alternative transportation for the elderly and disabled throughout the country.
There is no problem in arranging private parking in the yard of the house in question at Shunmit 17. It is also possible from the side of Ovadia Street. Further down the street, there is private parking in many buildings and the municipality will not be able to prevent such an implementation here either.
Even if there are justified complaints about the municipality's conduct and decisions in various areas,
Canceling disabled parking for someone who no longer owns a vehicle and no longer drives is not an arbitrary and cruel decision, but the necessary one.
The loyal reader described the "flood" with vivid accuracy.
The city's troubles, the vast majority of which should never have happened.
Ruthie Blumenfeld explained with great precision, where
This is where the parking shortage comes from.
Is it reasonable for an apartment owner who is assigned private parking in the Tama parking lot to park in the public space?
It is extremely worrying that their learned opinions are not
"Adopted" by the municipality.
There are some poor responses here. Look at the specific case as a tribute to an elderly couple. The entire republic is a series of conspiracies. It starts with the appointment of ministers, one is lazy, one is ignorant, another has no time, some who don't even know English (but have a degree), most who haven't served.
This parking lot is their connection to the outside world. So stop whining already.
How much biased deception and deviation from the truth is this municipality capable of spreading!!
The "significant increase in the use of private vehicles" stems from the Carmel's "explosion" of monstrous TAMA 38 buildings, which are based on mostly false statements by the municipal engineer, Eng. Y.S., who consistently approves distorted and falsified static calculations that were "conducted" by the developers' engineers, with the full backing of the municipal legal counsel, who has lost the concepts of public integrity and institutional morality for the private benefit of the municipality's employees in order to cover their salaries from construction and property tax levies.
Shame has been lost in the Haifa Municipality.
We are dealing with unbridled institutional lawlessness!! The issue was even brought up for discussion in the District Court, and in the coming weeks the public will know where it is headed.
This is one of the most polluted cities in the country.
The mayor can now put down the keys and go home.
Colombia is here!!
In buildings approved for TAMA 38, a policy applies that allows a ratio of up to 1.5 parking spaces per apartment. This means that some apartments do not receive 2 parking spaces.
The situation in Haifa is that people cannot use public transportation routes because of its topographical structure, so they own 2 cars per family.
Transportation standards were set by the residents of the lowlands, and the Haifa Municipality failed to change this determination in the policy for approving TAMA 38 applications that it created, and to require 2 parking spaces per apartment.
In addition, there is a reasonable chance that a family that gets 2 parking spaces in the new building will also get them in a parking multiplier or in 2 consecutive parking spaces – 2 cumbersome solutions that complicate life. A person who arrives at his home and finds parking on the street will prefer it to consecutive parking.
The result is that with each new TAMA 38 building, additional cars are added to the competition for parking on the street.
The municipality should require the developers to excavate an additional floor and allocate 2 parking spaces per apartment.
You're right!! The proliferation of Tama 38 has created a severe shortage of parking spaces, and the residents of Tama 38 have tripled the situation.
Architect Ruth Blumenfeld's response is important for understanding the situation, explaining it clearly and unambiguously.
What is happening in the field?
To read and not believe that the architect writes such a ridiculous text.. Because of the topography, a family in Haifa needs two cars and not one?? Do you even think this nonsense has come up? You are jamming all of Haifa in huge traffic jams like this instead of transferring the public to buses and taxis – which know how to bridge the topography just like a private car. It is the crooked thinking in Haifa that causes both huge traffic jams, also prioritizing private cars in a public place, and also destroying sidewalks and roads with piles of cars when cities all over the world already prohibit on-street parking in the city center and provide alternative transportation. There is not a single council member in the city council who deals with public transportation. That is the shame. Not the lack of 2 parking spaces per apartment. The shame is the lack of alternatives to this bad situation.
To Eyal who responded to Professor Ruth Blumenfeld.
You raise a correct point and also described a real predicament: "Prioritizing a private vehicle over a public one." There is no contradiction between our words.
The current situation is: there is no convenient public transportation that would replace a private car.
Instead of emphasizing the main thing - expanding roads and intersections and convenient public transportation that will reach every corner of the neighborhoods, the municipality continues to approve a population explosion in the form of development plans in which it approves less than 2 cars per apartment.
In any case, the aggressive and offensive wording is not to the point.
Every word is in stone. The city has been lost to us through the fingers of a failed, corrupt government that is doing everything possible to make life difficult here. There is no corner where you don't see the bloated towers, alleys, one-way streets, dead-end streets. Woe to us if, at the moment of truth, there is a fire here, all these towers will be death traps.
Shame on you. Shame on those bastard neighbors who find it painful to walk another 10 meters, to the point where they had to harass an elderly couple and steal their parking space.
Not true. The municipality should install special cranes for cars, like the elevator/ferris wheel they have in the city center, and thereby increase the number of parking spaces for everyone.
If all the pain is in disabled parking, it is for disabled drivers, so the parking should be for all citizens. And it is not possible for the parking to be used by the caregiver or a family member who comes once a week.
The daughter comes every day..
The law states otherwise, disabled parking is for and for the use of a disabled person, and can also be for a disabled person's driver. The goal is to enable independence and mobility
Shame and disgrace for such conduct.
This is one parking space for two disabled couples.
Let them move to Kiryat Bialik. They hand out disabled parking spaces there to anyone with a few connections.
If there is a parking shortage, why do we care about drivers who park on Galilee Street on the sidewalk? All this screwed-up municipality needs to do is mark the sidewalks on the sidewalk, and put up a simple sign that says, "For the sake of good order, a driver who parks and blocks beyond the area will receive a ticket."
In this place, the inspectors constantly give reports and cause wars between neighbors, quarrels, and even stabbings (a matter of time).
I didn't understand if this is a single parking space or a double parking space???
The dignity of the elderly is at stake, but I don't think they need private parking at that age!!!!!
A. They probably don't leave the house most of the time, such as going to work every day, etc.
Therefore, there is no justification for occupying parking spaces.
A. At such a respectable age, if you leave the house
There are taxis for the few exits for adults... and there is no need to take up parking spaces for young people running to work or shopping.
B. I also use a taxi when I need to.
Travel far and if it is a short trip
I use the bus!!!! and nothing happens to me!!!!!!
Ample parking for the hearing impaired without physical disabilities. Every day at the gym is fine.
In the case of a house with parking in the registry, will a disabled person receive additional parking?
For years, the Haifa municipality has been canceling more and more disabled parking spaces under strange excuses on HaTichon Street near the pharmacy and other apartments. They canceled essential disabled parking spaces, the same goes for Bezio, and the list goes on. I have previously contacted Andy Khilaya and municipal officials. They were all stunned and I realized that Haifa is a city of Sodom and Gomorrah. This entire city will suffer because of the inhumane level of its residents and the municipality. I don't even complain anymore. A bad city.
This is the worst municipality for its residents! All its decisions are against the residents! Property taxes are very expensive, the city is dirty, there is no parking at all and security here is only deteriorating. It is sad to live in our city!
Very good. If there is no car, there is no ticket. Enough with this bluff.
There is no wonder in the conduct of the Haifa district. There are many cases of shameful abuse of the disabled person's identity by family members of the disabled according to the identity law.
Valid only if the disabled person is physically in the vehicle and serving it!!!
I'm sure the elderly couple's home takes advantage of the parking lot on Shunamit Street (the deserted and sleepy one) for wild shopping and baldness (wild parties) until dawn.
Pshhhhh, how stupid you are. Oh my god
Good evening. What did the Holocaust have to do with it? Whoever hears it – deserves it!. A law is a law. Period. Continued. A lovely evening.
exactly
What does the Holocaust have to do with it? Whoever deserves it – deserves it! The 91-year-old Holocaust survivor was 11 when the war ended, his wife was 6! Enough with the cynicism about the Holocaust.
Good evening. What did the Holocaust have to do with it? Whoever hears it – deserves it!. A law is a law. Period. Continued. A lovely evening.
Come to Jerusalem, and see how many "private" disabled parking spaces there are. Including on sidewalks, the municipality benefits, and the citizen benefits.
This is a win-win situation.
This department operates in an unclear manner,
Some people don't seem to have mobility limitations.
And yet, they received an assignment near the house, on the streets.
With a severe parking shortage, on the other hand, a girl who urgently needs parking in a complex situation often cannot leave the house due to a lack of parking and a taxi is not always available. For years, her mother has been struggling to provide her with an allocation, the rigidity is great and heartless and they do not want to understand the situation.