Calcalist, Amitay Gazit, 06.05.2020
The decision that the TAMA 38 will be repealed in October 2022 will not change despite the Corona crisis. This is the position of the Planning and Urban Renewal Authority in a letter sent to senior lawyers yesterday by Calcalist to refine the message that this is a position shared by all relevant government officials. Einat Ganon, Deputy Director of the Urban Renewal Authority and Shahar Soller, Deputy Director of Strategic Planning, Planning Director.
The letter was sent in response to an earlier letter they sent to the Planning Director of the Property and Land Forum's chair, the lawyers Avi Lalum, Micha Gadron and Ziv Caspi, together with the Chairman of the Bureau, Avi Haimi. In their letter, the bureau's senior executives called the planning director to reconsider the decision made six months ago. On the cancellation of the plan for the strengthening of earthquake structures, October 38, 2022.
They argue that the Corona crisis changed the reality that was familiar when the decision to cancel the plan was made. Due to the crisis, it is difficult to impossible to advance planning procedures with authorities and agencies in the real estate industry. "This is not the time to hatch an entire industry that produces thousands of housing units per year, which deal with countless entrepreneurial companies, contractors, architects, lawyers, engineers, consultants and the like." B - to try to come up with a new wheel that will provide if and when it can fill the planning space that will be created, "the bureau's officials wrote.
Attorney Avi Lalom Photo: Gabriel in Haralia
The Director of Planning and the Urban Renewal Authority responded that the decision to cancel the TAMA 38 was made six months ago and "the attempt to reopen the debate could re-instate real uncertainty and cause stagnation in the urban renewal." As for the Corona crisis, they explained that the restrictions created by the struggle The plague began only a month and a half ago and is now back to normal.
The decision on the cancellation of the TAMA 38 was adopted by the National Planning and Construction Council in November 2019, which could change this decision, but in light of the planning director's position it does not appear that the issue will open again for discussion. According to the decision made in 2019, the TAMA 38 will be phased out By 2020, local authorities that choose to do so can continue to operate according to the principles of the program. In the months since the decision was made, the Planning Director and the Urban Renewal Authority are promoting an alternative plan to be approved upon the establishment of the new government.