Guy Nardi,globes.co.il
The TA-Jaffa Municipality has prepared a municipal policy document that includes instructions from the Engineering Director to local committee members regarding approval of eviction-building programs throughout the city . The gospel from the document is that the TA-Jaffa Municipality is reducing the housing areas for tenants in evacuation-construction projects The overall experience is to produce a social policy that will leave the residents of the urban renewal complexes in the city. The document was due to be debated by the local committee tomorrow, Wednesday, but at the last minute the agenda dropped.
According to the document, regarding 70 evacuation complexes defined in the outline plan, the local committee will approve new projects according to a more moderate change key than before: an existing apartment with up to 80 square meters will be added up to 12 square meters, which means an additional square meter ; For an existing apartment with an area of more than 80 square meters, no consideration space will be added. The local committee may increase the area of the extension to an existing apartment of less than 40 square meters.
The policy document provides additional principles, including the editing of a social appendix examining who currently lives in the apartments, whether there is an agreed representation, whether the developer has tenant signatures and whether they have been obtained in conventional ways, the proportion of seniors among tenants, whether there is a sufficient supply for rent nearby and more. In addition, the policy document requires the developers to establish at their expense a capital fund that will be used by tenants who return to the project for regular maintenance over a period of ten years.
TA Deputy Mayor Meital Lehavi criticizes the new policy approach: "Even before I delve into the document, it seems there is a restriction on private property owners to enjoy the urban renewal process as much as they deserve. The entire urban renewal process is based on building additions on private property that give up to 5 times the rights, up to 4 times the housing area, including public land that comes to its municipalities, a landmark levy, a contractor who earns, a state that signifies an increase in the number of housing units and the owner of the apartment. "On whose behalf urban renewal is being carried out and its right to profit from the matter is restrictive. I think the contractors' organization has not just arisen, for fear that people will refuse to sign urban renewal deals."