The Jerusalem Regional Planning and Building Commission has approved 3,000 new apartments, one third of them small apartments, as part of a vacate-and-build project in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhoods. The plan seeks to improve the quality of residences and living standards in the area, use the land better, and to adapt the area's public, education, culture, and religious facilities for the planned higher population target.
Most of the apartments in the Katamon neighborhoods, officially known as Gonen, are very small apartments built over 50 years for new immigrants. Most of the buildings are two-story apartments, with some four-storey projects. Some of the apartments have been subsequently expanded by their owners.
The plan calls for the creation of a continuous urban stretch of residential neighbors, regularizing the network of streets and parking, along with pedestrian streets and a network of open spaces linked to adjacent neighborhoods. Buildings along thoroughfares will have commercial facades.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on November 9, 2011
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