The kibbutz’s land, adjacent to Herzliya, is due be rezoned for 4,000 housing units.
Each family of Kibbutz Galil Yam, bordering Herzliya, will receive $2.5 million from the rezoning of farmland for residences, according to a discussion by the Tel Aviv Regional Planning and Building Commission last week.
The commission discussed opposition to the plan to build 4,000 housing units on the kibbutz’s land filed by hundreds of landowners in Herlziya’s Park Bassa neighborhood. They claim that the rezoning of agricultural land is at the public’s expense, since Kibbutz Galil Yam received the land for farming. They proposed instead, that Israel Land Administration (ILA) land leased to Kibbutz Galil Yam be rezoned for a public park, and that construction be allowed on privately owned land in the Park Bassa neighborhood. They claim that they bought the land, which the Herzliya municipality plans to expropriate for public use, while at the same time public land was being rezoned for residential construction.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on August 6, 2006
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