The Marker, Gili Melnicki, 23.02.2020
From 26,000 residents to 85,000 - this is the goal that sets the outline plan for Beer Yaakov in two decades.
The plan, initiated by the Israel Lands Authority, covers an area of 9,500 dunams. It allocates about 650,000 square meters of public space, 1,066 acres of open space, and the establishment of a new football stadium.
The District Planning and Building Committee approved the addition of 7,700 housing units to be added to 19,300 housing units already approved, most of them in the vacant Zrifin camp .So this is a total of about 27,000 housing units that will meet the population size expected to triple itself.
The committee noted that since the construction of the hotline is in doubt and the location of the metro stations is still unknown, there is no place at this time to strengthen rights under the overall plan , and thus the mass transit system has become a condition for the supply of housing units. The Commission has determined that as far as the heat line or metro is concerned, plans can be promoted to increase rights and uses along the JNF axis and around the metro stations, without the additions being a contradiction to this plan.
This is not the first time that planning committees have linked transport infrastructure development with the supply of housing units allowed for construction. The implementation tool for fulfilling these conditions is often linked to budget transfers carried out by the PMI directly to the Ministry of Transport - and ensures the planning and development of the required transport infrastructure, beyond the budgets transferred by the Treasury. This issue is in dispute today between the Accountant General and the PMI, and the government will be required to report. Urgently, since there will be a lot of influence on the number of units that will be allowed to market under the plan in Beer Yaakov, and in other cities.
Center District Planning Director Guy Kaplan noted, "Approval of an outline plan for Beer Yaakov that connects all new and old parts of the city by a public transport axis and transforms the rural village into an urban settlement with economic and urban development potential. The program emphasized continued development. Beyond the plan outlining the need for high-capacity public transport. "