After the failure of the plan to establish Harish as an ultra-Orthodox city, last night (Tuesday) the subcommittee for fundamental planning issues decided National Planning and Building Council (-Holnat), to recommend to the National Council to approve the plan for the establishment of Kasif, the new Haredi city in the Negev, which will include up to 100,000 people.
This follows a government decision from 2007 when it was decided On the establishment of the urban settlement of Kasif, at the Tel-Arad junction. With this decision, the government sought to address two important issues for the State of Israel: A solution to the housing crisis of the ultra-Orthodox sector and encouraging development and settlement in the Negev.
The government tasked the Ministry of Construction, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior, with working to approve the plan with the planning institutions. About three years later, the National Planning and Building Council approved the plan.
Planning characteristics of the settlement: The new city is planned to include approximately 16,000 housing units, with a population of 80-100 thousand people, characterized by young and large households from the ultra-Orthodox sector.
The city is expected to cover approximately 6,400 dunams and will be characterized by large apartments in dense construction of approximately 4-5 floors, and adjacent to the ground, accounting for approximately 151%-201% of the total housing units in the settlement.
The city will include commercial and employment areas unique to the Haredi sector within the settlement, and there will be high land allocations for educational and religious institutions.
As part of the planning process to change the district outline plan, a small number of objections were received. The objections focused on three main areas: environmental planning, economic, and social.
On April 1, 2014, the National Council authorized the National Council to hear the objections to the plan, and to make recommendations regarding them to the National Council. At the National Council meeting last night, the committee members heard the objections to the plan. As part of the committee members' comments, the Ministry of Construction presented the professional considerations for the plan as well as its response to all the objections that were submitted in return. The representative of the District Committee also addressed the objections and rejected them outright.
At the end of the discussion process, the committee decided to reject the objections that were submitted and determined that it would recommend to the National Council to approve the plan, which will soon be brought to the Council for final approval.
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