A plan has been approved for the construction of a new neighborhood in Netanya – the Havatzelet neighborhood, which includes 3,300 apartments, public institutions, public areas and more.
Plan: Miloslavsky Architects
The National Planning and Construction Committee today (Sunday) approved a plan by the Israel Land Authority to establish the Havatzelet neighborhood in Netanya. The plan includes 3,300 apartments, including 500 apartments for sheltered housing, 60,000 square meters of employment, buildings and public institutions, open spaces, engineering facilities and a transportation center.
The plan includes buildings with a height of up to 9 floors and residential towers with a height of 15-22 buildings with a commercial facade, sheltered housing and employment areas.
The plan was designed by Miloslavsky Architects. Architect Guy Miloslavsky explains that the plan balances between the need to add new apartments in saturated urban construction in northern Netanya, the need to expand the settlements in the Hefer Valley, and alongside that – the preservation of open spaces, the national park and the coastal strip.
Neighborhood planning
North of Netanya, a road is planned that will start from the interchange that will be built on Road 2, a municipal road is planned that will combine commerce, housing, employment and sheltered housing, and on the outskirts of the neighborhood, textured construction up to 9 stories high.
The program emphasizes the creation of community life and includes the development of bicycle paths to maintain the quality of life of residents, and the design of sheltered housing as part of the neighborhood, in order to preserve the elderly as part of the community.
Expansion of Emek Hefer settlements
The plan expands three localities in the Emek Hefer Regional Council thanks to the addition of apartments to Havatzelet Hasharon, Tzuki Yam and Shoshanat HaEmakim, with densities ranging from 4.5 units per net dunam to 14 units per dunam net in the Emek Hefer Regional Council areas.
The mix of housing units is made up of detached houses and apartments in a saturated structure with a height of 4-5 floors. These housing units are added to the total number of approved housing units in localities. The plan adds 72 housing units to Havatzelet Hasharon (northern extension), 165 housing units to cliffs and 112 housing units to Shoshanat HaEmakim.
The plan is based on a traffic axis called Havatzelet Road, but shifts it north in order to complete the tissue built in Netanya in the best possible way and to keep the road away from Moshav Avihail. This is in addition to the expansion of the Havatzelet interchange to allow for the scope of construction in the area.
The plan creates, north of the new neighborhood, a strip of agricultural land aimed at preserving an ecological corridor that creates a sequence of open areas between the Avihayil National Park in the east and the coastal strip in the west, among other things by changing the designation of residential areas to open areas and concentrating construction.