The Marker, Adi Cohen,26.02.2020

Deputy Attorney General Erez Kaminitz said at the city's social renewal of citysquare for 2020, held Tuesday in Tel Aviv, that "after the Metro project, the need to promote urban renewal is probably the biggest challenge awaiting the next government."

Kaminitz addressed the solutions to the barriers to the urban renewal market that have emerged in government ministries over the past year. "One of the main obstacles of the field is the phenomenon of extortionate tenants causing projects to stall because of their demands," he said.

Kaminitz added: "We see no other solution to the phenomenon than reducing the percentage of consent required to promote urban renewal projects, from 80% to 66%. We believe that we will put greater pressure on extortionate tenants and will be better at promoting projects."

Kaminitz also said: "One of the weaknesses of urban renewal projects is the issue of improvement levies that produces uncertainty. Unlike today's situation, where the levy levy is at the discretion of the local authorities, we are promoting a move to fix the improvement levies on urban renewal projects. A local who would like to charge more or less will have to bind it in advance in the policy. "

The chair of the Tel Aviv District Planning and Building Committee, Danielle Posk, addressed the need to make the urban renewal sector a national mission. "We are preparing for a significant acceleration in the urban renewal in the next five years. The amount of crumbling buildings is only growing. However, success in the field will be urban renewal in Beit Shean - and not in Tel Aviv, where land values ​​are high. "

One of the main issues raised by the conference is the failure of the state to export urban renewal to the periphery."As the state is unable to produce complementary land solutions and incentives for construction outside the demand areas, we are only tightening the growing gap between the center and the periphery," said Benny Dreyfus, director of the Ministry of Construction and Housing.

Dreyfus added, "The necessary solution is that some of the benefits of the improvement levy go to a municipal renewal fund and be transferred to projects in the non-economic periphery. Success in the field will be measured for several years, with urban renewal of tens of thousands of housing units, but especially if it occurs in Kiryat Shmona, Dimona and Be'er. Seven. The state cannot expect the solution to come from the private market, but should influence where there is a market failure. "

"The ultimate goal is to upgrade public spaces"

Israel Land Authority director Adiel Samaria said: "The main thing the authority should do in urban renewal is not to interfere. Beyond that, our ability to contribute to urban renewal is primarily about the complex issue of complementary land. We have a set of rules in this regard. Complementary will go to those who need it most and there will be no excuse for lowering the density .

Attorney Eitan Atia, Chairman of the 15th Forum, referred to the failure of TAMA 38 outside the demand areas. "TAMA 38 is an anti-social program in its conceptual basis," he said. The private sector where the government pockets or cooperates with tenants creates a situation where non-demand areas, where there is a great need, remain without reinforcement against earthquakes. "

Shachar Soler, Deputy Director-General of Planning for Strategic Planning, added that "Tama 38 is an important tool that produces a lot of housing units , but the ultimate goal is to upgrade buildings and public spaces. The Tama has addressed one building, not the public space or infrastructure. . With the move to complex construction, the goal is to enable cities to innovate, while at the same time improving the quality of planning. "