Opinion | The balance between the built and the open in Jerusalem Israel today

Jerusalem faces very complicated problems in the field of planning and construction.

On the one hand, we need to prepare for the coming years and build a great many housing units, employment, and significant urban renewal projects.

On the other hand the city needs to continue to function, transportation infrastructure, open spaces, the city is constantly in not exactly a conflict, but the need to balance between the built and the open.

Or familiar with the disciplinary stories of the Deer Valley and White Ridge, the struggles there how on the one hand to build new housing units, and on the other hand to preserve the open spaces that are so important to the city.

Beyond that it is our capital city, it has a lot of national sites, tourist sites, that we need to maintain accessibility to, and also the ability to overlook from all sorts of angles.

Therefore the intensive construction and the construction for height should be in the right doses and accordingly.

Jerusalem has been blessed with the ability to provide a public transportation service, a light rail that is in operation today and overtook the rest of Israel by orders of magnitude, and additional lines are under construction today.

I think it will be to the credit of the municipality that it is preparing for the coming years for the intensive development of the city. 

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