Majdal Shams.
About 16,000 dunams (photo: architect Tsadik Elikim)
The North District Planning and Construction Committee chaired by Eran Nitzan actually submitted a new comprehensive outline plan for the Druze settlement of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights.
The plan promoted by the Local Planning Division of the Planning Administration, accompanied by an inter-ministerial steering committee and in cooperation with the Majdal Shams local council and the Ma'ale Hermon local committee, includes the addition of approximately 2,700 housing units that will meet the target population of approximately 16,800 residents.
The plan establishes an overall planning framework for Majdal Shams, and is the basis for the preparation and approval of detailed plans that correspond to it.
Majdal Shams will become a tourist center
Majdal Shams is a local council located on the slopes of Hermon.
The jurisdiction of the settlement is about 16,000 dunams and it currently has about 11,500 residents.
The plan includes three new development areas: a southwestern neighborhood "New Majdal", in an area of 726 dunams that will include 1,300 housing units in a building of up to 6 floors;
"Rihan" neighborhood with an area of 335 dunams, located in the southeast of the settlement, which includes 960 housing units in a building of up to 4 floors;
A northwestern neighborhood, with an area of 353 dunams, which includes 850 housing units in a building of up to 5 floors.
In addition to the housing units, the plan includes 73,000 square meters for tourist uses in favor of the establishment of new hotels, guest rooms and hotel rooms, 705,000 square meters for commercial and employment areas, and 815,000 square meters for public buildings. Also, the plan allows for the expansion and regulation of The holy Druze burial site Nabi Yafouri located in the south of the settlement.
"The plan is the fruit of a large-scale planning effort promoted in recent years in all the Druze settlements in the north," explains the Chairman of the North District Committee, Eran Nitzan. "Majdel Shams, the highest and northernmost settlement in Israel is expected to become a significant tourist settlement in the area.
The development of this settlement, the increase of housing units, the establishment of hotels and accommodation units are good news for the entire north."
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