Dov Cohen, calcalist.co.il
Cause party developers Ramat Gan urban renewal: the president of the Tel Aviv District Court Judge Eitan Orenstein, canceled last Monday officially the Ramat Gan Municipality policy concerning the plan 38, and ordered that the previous policy of the municipality of -2017 be restored and now require the local committee.
Resolute in its ruling on a petition by the Association of Builders of the country, the President of the Court that "the new policy, which also included transitional provisions associated therewith, null and void". Another wrote: "I came to the conclusion that the determination of the new policy, the local committee had exceeded its authority, ignoring the fact that the base plan 38 is eminent purpose and importance of the protection of human life, which her worthy to shine on all the decision power".
Orenstein therefore ordered the Commission to speed up the investigation and resolution of all applications for granting a permit under the plan 38 that were delayed from the municipal elections, and that "coated shall take place within 3 months of the sentence," the resolution. At the same time, the court ordered the City Hall for the expense’s petitioner, Association of builders of the country, amounting to 35 thousand shekels.
Ramat Gan Municipality's policy in relation to the plan 38 projects and urban renewal has been long all active players in the field, being one of the pioneers of the city's urban renewal, with the highest number of projects that will take effect after Tel Aviv. Upon entering the mayor's office in October last, Carmel Shama ordered to immediately suspend the promotion of all the projects have not yet reached the stage of implementation, so give priority sub advancement of urban renewal projects entire residential complexes.
Cold shoulder the new mayor of urban renewal projects outraged the developers and property owners in the city, some of whom worked for years to develop projects and spent heavily that may have been lost. He even intervened Attorney municipal policy, stating that the new policy published in April, as well as transitional provisions that accompanied it, negate the plan 38 city illegally.
As a result, the committee met local planning and building in the city to change the policy. It seems that the ruling this week in the province, effectively killing the intention of the new mayor to stop the plan altogether 38 in his city - at least until the municipality's appeal promise to submit soon.
Mayors subject
"Obstacles created by City Hall for the promotion plan 38 projects not surprising," says the entrepreneur Yehuda Herzig, CEO and owner of a group of real estate Herzig , inter alia, promoting urban renewal projects in Ramat Gan. "In the end you have to remember when her mother Cohen is a seasoned politician, who works as a window style. As I see it, he promised residents who had obviously not going to work just because it helped him electorally. Now he must say he did everything in his power to change policy, but the court stopped him. "
Herzig added that "the court has spoken and that he stands by the construction industry and the public in Israel who need certainty in planning will allow to create projects that protect against earthquakes and missiles and save lives. This is proof that the heads of agencies and local committees cannot prevent more construction of 38 NOP".
Mayor of Ramat Gan, Carmel Shama said in response to the ruling that directed the city's legal Hiioatz to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. "With all due respect to the judgment, so long as I am mayor will sign the permit only if we have infrastructure, education and transport", stressed Shama Hacohen. "Each application for a permit location lacks educational infrastructure, transportation and recreation - be refused. The court wants Israel to take responsibility for destroying the quality of life in the city of Ramat Gan, invited honorary judges examine their own permits and sign them themselves.
"Celebration of the contractors on the basis of erroneous judgment is a serious mistake on their part for the celebration plan 38 returned, without infrastructure Ramat Gan ended with the decision of the voters, and no judicial decision will not change it. Knew every entrepreneur and every resident of every building permit application investment droppings and breeding the inhabitants unanswered amount of infrastructure is an investment in the antler ".
Association of Builders of the country said that "the judgment of the district, along with the agreement between the housing and finance the extension plan 38 additional three years, produces the same certainty that we requested and allows programs and projects that are currently in the process of work to be carried out."