An outline plan for Tel Aviv-Jaffa that includes the construction of 35,000 apartments by 2025 was today deposited for objections by the public, eight months after the Tel Aviv Regional Planning and Building Commission approved the plan for deposit. The municipality's outline plan sets the planning trends and city development through 2025.
The 35,000 apartments that will be built in Tel Aviv will include affordable housing projects. The outline plan also includes moving the new central bus station, the construction of public buildings, a ban on high-rises in the area of the White City, urban renewal in southern neighborhoods, the preservation of landmark buildings in the Kirya, and the establishment of a green route between Rothschild Boulevard and the Mediterranean.
Future approval of the outline plan will affect the timetable for construction projects. After the Tel Aviv Regional Commission gives its final approval of the outline plan, the Tel Aviv Local Planning and Building Commission will have the authority to approve detailed plans in accordance with the outline plan, without the need to send the plans to the regional commission.
The new outline plan fundamentally changes the current situation by defining specific land uses. The zoning will give the Tel Aviv Local Planning Commission planning flexibility, while providing developers and the public transparency.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on November 17, 2013
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