(Haipo) – The National Planning and Building Council unanimously approved today (Monday, June 2.6) the guidelines for preparing an environmental impact assessment for the first complex in the National Outline Plan for Haifa Bay – TAMA 75 (“Bay Gate”). The complex includes over 19,000 housing units, 3,000 hotel rooms and a proposal for the development of the beach, and constitutes a significant milestone in realizing the vision for the development of the bay.
The first complex: 3,000 dunams with direct access to the sea
Complex 1 is the northern part of TAMA 75 and the only complex of the four planning complexes that has a direct interface with the sea. The complex extends over approximately 3,000 dunams and includes, among other things, the Tank Farm area, the stadium complex in Kiryat Haim, the Brandes Forest, and the coastal strip. The complex is expected to create a new urban continuity and direct connectivity between the residential areas and the beach. The discussion in the National Council, headed by the Director General of the Planning Administration, Rafi Elmaleh, marks the transition from the strategic planning phase to the detailed and applied planning phase.
TAMA 75: A vision to change the face of Haifa Bay
TAMA 75, initiated by the Israel Land Authority, is one of the most important strategic development plans in Israel. The plan is intended to lead a wide-ranging change in the Haifa Bay area by creating a new urban area that combines residences, employment, commerce, logistics and advanced industry, while strengthening the connection between Haifa and the suburbs, improving accessibility to the sea and promoting economic and regional growth engines. The move comes after the editorial committee completed comprehensive planning work over the past two years to formulate the planning framework of the area and locate the areas required for superinfrastructure.
Next step: Detailed planning and environmental review
In the next stage, the detailed plans will be promoted, along with the preparation of an environmental impact assessment and the holding of professional working meetings on various issues, after which the plan will return for a final discussion in the editorial committee. The Director General of the Planning Administration, Rafi Elmaleh, said that "the transition to the detailed planning phase of Complex 1 is a significant step in realizing the vision of TAMA 75 and changing the face of Haifa Bay for generations. This is one of the largest and most complex planning moves currently being promoted in Israel, which will connect Haifa and Kiryat Shmona, open the urban space to the sea and create a basis for economic, environmental and social growth for the entire northern region."
Israel Land Authority: "Changing Reality"
The Director of the Israel Land Authority noted that "the state's vision for Haifa Bay is advancing another step today towards a work plan on the ground. The first complex that is being launched is a change in reality that will result in the construction of over 19,000 new apartments in the heart of a green, progressive and prosperous urban space and the connection of residents to new beaches." Director of the Authority's Senior Planning and Projects Division, Einav Ringler, added that "providing guidelines for the environmental review of the first complex of TAMA 75 constitutes the beginning of the statutory path in one of the most important and complex strategic development projects in the State of Israel," and that the goal of the procedure is "to transform the Haifa Bay area from an industrial zone into a developed and urban, high-quality and sustainable urban space that will significantly contribute to strengthening the metropolis and its prosperity."
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Lacks vision. The plan presents outdated urban planning. Precisely when there is such a large area of land that can be cleared and there is no previous planning or road network, it could be transformed into the thing that is most missing and noticeably missing: an urban mixed-use development that will be built around a large train station and will allow walking distances and travel by public transportation without the need to own a car. It seems that the streets are once again dictating construction in an era where there is a light rail and we need to plan around public transportation and a huge metro system across the bay. The interface with the waterfront also requires much more thinking than "we got to the plan line and stopped and then we made small breakwaters in a simulation." Haifa needs an active waterway, it needs anchorages and marinas that will connect the public to maritime activities and sailing.
It would even be possible to examine digging a water canal from the shoreline to Yarkon Park, along which a promenade and promenades could be developed, and within the water canal, hundreds of places to dock small boats.
We must open our minds and grow in the development of the area.
What fun it is to live on polluted and toxic land, full of carcinogenic chemicals. Surely the price of "living" in such a wonderful place would also be correspondingly high — sky-high.
All dreams with zero thought and zero action. Keep voting for the communist mafia, and they will continue to confuse your mind with more and more dreams on paper that "clearly" cost the Barangay millions of shekels to "plan." Instead of mixed construction with offices and shops, Haifa is only producing more dead neighborhoods and constant decay. Half of Haifa is already on the train to work in Tel Aviv. But as the saying goes, fools deserve the power they deserve.
Will crude oil storage tanks disappear?
Will the refineries and the entire petrochemical industry, including fertilizers, remain? Will they be relocated?
Will the entire industrial area of Haifa Bay, located south of Kiryat Haim and south of Kiryat Bialik, disappear?
You're talking green, it's not clear what of the existing black will remain and what won't...
Obviously. The best is a new residential neighborhood on contaminated land that will take 100 years to clean up and a stone's throw from polluting factories that are literally in the backyard.
How much nonsense...how many promises on paper??
Talk like sand and nothing to eat.
How much unnecessary money is being spent on this?
Invest in education. In the dilapidated roads in the neglected neighborhoods of Kiryat Haim. Neve David. Shprinzak..missing??
The main thing is to promise something unrealistic that will certainly not happen in the next hundred years.
They remind me of someone... who just promises to be the best here..
This is what this country looks like.
Will you also report a higher incidence of cancer above the Haifa average among those who fall into the trap and come to live there?
I think it will be another 20-30 years, Dana said. I really hope that the young people in the Kiryats will have a better life. In the meantime, in Kiryat Haim, evacuation and construction are only on paper. Not a single house has been destroyed yet.
Every house destroyed in the eviction-construction-torture project marks the destruction of the lives of those who lived there, and without warning.
Caveat emptor - buyer beware.
If the project is completed by the end of the century, it will take decades just to clean up the area.
For project leaders
Why not preserve the natural gem near the stadium? Not a synthetic park, but a real natural park with the area's natural vegetation? A small nature reserve with a winter puddle... that's what's in this area today, it's a shame to destroy it.
There is so much to do in dying and neglected Haifa… so instead they do business on polluted land…
Talpiot Market… Haifa’s trash can… Shame
Bad roads… require urgent renovation… Neve David for example… Lower City… and Hadar beg for renovation… Buildings in poor condition
Right!!!
19 housing units on 3000 dunams at 3.2 residents per housing unit is 20 residents per dunam, about 4 times more dense than Haifa today.
Where will the residents come from?
Where did aviation go wrong in the plan? Disappeared in the future??
While construction continues on horribly contaminated land
No matter how much charlatan and dreams they try to market, it will take at least another 60 years before they suck the soil.
As a native of Kiryat Yam, for 50 years +, we promise Riviera hotels.
In our periphery, there has been, is not, and will not be investment.