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Tel Aviv Municipality Examines: Charging Entrepreneurs to Pay for Projects Without Affordable Housing | Israel Today

2022-07-14T11:27:16.583Z


The move comes against the background of the agenda recently voiced by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in favor of lowering housing prices • Additional issues in the new master plan: the intensity of the city, construction along the metro line and raising the housing quota within reach


The plenum of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Local Committee yesterday (Wednesday) approved the municipal master plan (TA / 5500) prior to its deposit in the District Committee.

The current master plan is designed to adapt city planning to the relevant goals that have changed since the plan was approved in 2016.

The main aspects for which there has been a change in the urban perception are reflected in the areas of housing such as urban renewal, transportation and mobility, employment and mixing of uses to the advancement of moves that will lead to the independence of the local committee. 

According to the property tax data of the Tel Aviv Municipality, as of December 2023, the city has about 416,000 residents in 215,000 housing units with an average area of ​​about 85 square meters per apartment.

Currently, the city enjoys about 8 million square meters for commercial, employment and hotel areas. The master plan cell / 5500 is aimed at a population target of 600,000 people, 273,000 housing units and 9 million square meters of employment, commercial and hotel areas.

The main innovation in the plan concerns, as mentioned, the housing crisis in the city and the advancement of Mayor Ron Huldai's agenda, as it was heard recently regarding the high cost of housing prices.

Hence, the master plan places emphasis on increasing the inventory of affordable housing and expanding affordable housing projects even in brown and built-up public areas.

As part of the plan, the municipality is considering establishing an affordable housing fund (DBI) that will allow at the discretion of the municipal engineer and the committee's decision to oblige real estate companies to provide alternative monetary value in projects where affordable housing can not be allocated at the required rate.

The current master plan will include the addition of 'rental housing' to the collection of residential uses, if possible, and will bring order to the maintenance of the buildings by establishing provisions for maintenance mechanisms to reduce the cost of living and ensure the quality of maintenance. 

The master plan also refers to the marking of the metro system that did not appear in the master plan Cell / 5000 and in fact updates plans bordering on a mass transit environment and adds building rights for employment purposes.

For example, on Shalavim Street - Heinrich Heine and Ben Zvi Street in the south of the city, building rights for employment purposes will be added to the issue, which will also be used for residential use.

Along the sides of main streets, such as Moshe Sneh and Pinchas Rosen, it is planned to strengthen construction between 9-20 floors, and in strategic places, 30-story construction will also be possible.

The master plan also came to create an "accessible city 15 minutes" that would open access to employment, commercial, craft and other uses only within walking distance, a new transportation terminal in the Ludwipol complex and construction of up to 30 floors in Neve Sharet. 

The updated master plan further recommends a number of planning changes in all districts of the city.

For example, in the east of the city (District 9), the plan in the Kfar Shalem neighborhood proposes to turn Six Days Street into an urban street with commercial facades;

Empowerment of rights in the Ayalon area; construction of a new transportation terminal in the Ludwipol complex and increasing uses in the 'peace' area.

South of the city, districts 7-8 - in the Shapira neighborhood, it is planned to increase the building rights and allow the floors to be raised from 4 to 8 floors;

In northern Jaffa (Raziel and Goldman streets), 5-story construction is planned, and the Neve Sha'anan area will be more intensive and will include more employment near mass transportation.


Downtown 3-6 - Ibn Gvirol Street will allow construction of up to 9 floors (instead of 8 today), except in the northeast corner of the street where construction of up to 25 floors will be possible;

In the Lapid area - from Ashkelon Street in the east, Kaufman in the west to Eilat in the south, a mixed construction of residences and hotels will be possible with a mix of 30-45 percent for 25-story or 45-story hotels, if it is a municipal scale project accompanied by an international hotel chain.


North of the city, Districts 1-2 - The Neve Sharet neighborhood will grow from 8 floors today to 30 floors, the Ramat Hachayal neighborhood near two green line and metro stations will be intensified and the Ramat Aviv neighborhood will rise in height with a mixed designation.

Tel Aviv-Yafo Mayor Ron Huldai:

"The city of Tel Aviv-Yafo is undergoing dynamic changes, and as a city leading in its speed of response to changes, the need for the current amendment of the master plan was born. "With an emphasis on pedestrians and the light rail, which will start operating in the city in about four months. The planning changes are what will determine whether in 20 years it will be pleasant and good to live in the city, and we will make every effort to make that happen."

Deputy and Acting Mayor and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Planning and Construction, Adv. Doron Sapir

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