The Marker, Adi Cohen, 20.01.2021
Back to the table: The huge plan to double the area of the Bnei Ayish local council, and to build 5,700 housing units in its area - was approved today (Wednesday) by the Committee for the Advancement of Preferred Housing Complexes (VOTAL). This, a few months after the plan was canceled in an unusual move, on the orders of the Southern District Attorney's Office - on suspicion of a conflict of interest of the person appointed as the investigator of objections to the huge plan, the cities are planning Orly Ein-Dar Naim.
According to the suspicion, revealed in an administrative petition filed by the Beer Tuvia Regional Council in 2019, it was alleged that shortly before Ein-Naim was appointed to the position - in which she paved the way for approval of the giant plan - she performed other paid work for the Ministry of Construction and Housing. Promotion of the program.
Subject to the decision of the prosecutor's office determined the cancellation of the recommendations of the report eye-Dar Naim, cancellation decisions on the basis of which the Commission obtained - as well as the re-deposition of the plan, which was approved now. According to sources Bootm"l, the new programapproved plan includes several changes to previous deposited, And got off the table. The main change among them is the reduction of the construction area that the plan defines - in favor of leaving more agricultural land - while streamlining land use.
Currently, the Bnei Ayish local council, located a few kilometers south of Gedera, has about 7,500 residents in an area of about 820 dunams. The said plan, which was promoted by the Ministry of Construction and Housing in cooperation with city members, documents the intensive growth of the local council. Area and will increase its population to 27,000 in the coming decades.
Along with the housing units, the plan includes about 320,000 square meters to be designated for employment and industrial areas in the council area. The plan is for the thousands of housing units to be built in 3- to 12-story residential buildings, which will be built as a direct continuation of the existing settlement. Yes, the plan also includes the treatment of supporting infrastructure for the huge neighborhood that will be built in Bnei Ayish, including the diversion of a high-voltage line that will allow construction at the planned heights, as well as the addition of a new perimeter road.
Minister of the Interior, Aryeh Deri Photo: Moti Milrod
An umbrella agreement is planned to help the Bnei Ayish
Also, according to sources in VOTAL , in parallel with the promotion of the huge plan in Bnei Ayish, and in order to enable its implementation - a roof agreement is currently being drafted between the state and the local council, in order to provide budgetary support and organizational assistance for the expected intensive development. According to the same sources, the intensive growth expected for the local authority - currently currently employing only about 27 workers - requires significant organizational change and upgrading, as well as significant financial support that will enable the construction to be implemented. In addition, TheMarker has learned that as part of the draft roof agreement - which has not yet been signed and the total budget that will be given to the authority as part of it is not yet known - about NIS 30 million will be allocated by the state for the construction of income-producing projects.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said with the approval of the plan that "thanks to the return of the planning institutions to the Ministry of the Interior, Bnei Ayish is expected to receive a comprehensive package of municipal and planning solutions, which could not have existed in the past. This is thanks to the understanding of the partner government ministries, that the expansion of a local authority of such magnitudes, requires a comprehensive view of the local authority in all its areas of service. "Bnei Ayish is expected to increase the housing stock, in parallel with the overall vision in the field of employment and municipal services in an important demand area, the Ashkelon sub-district area."
The head of the Development Administration at the Ministry of the Interior and Chairman of the Hotamal, Edith Bar, said after the plan was approved: The plan to expand the settlement will add significant commercial and employment areas, strengthen the local authority, and increase the supply of housing consumed in the area. "