Mayor Haim Bibbs: Here’s the good news I’ve been waiting for: The city’s ‘southern hills’ have been declared a national park! After years of struggle, the National Planning and Building Council has adopted my urban vision and made an unprecedented decision stating that the southern hills area of the city will be declared an evergreen area – which means our grandparents will also enjoy green in the eyes. Many of the city’s residents and representatives of the green environmental organizations are partners in this struggle, who, like me, saw the need to maintain a balance between urban development and the promotion of the city’s natural values. “
On Tuesday, 23.2.21, a discussion was held in the subcommittee on planning issues in principle – and NTA, which was authorized by the National Planning and Construction Council to discuss changing the city’s district outline plan, Modiin Maccabim Reut. This discussion was one of the main and final milestones on Of the city in accordance with the mayor’s vision and setting the city’s development goals for 2040.
In this context, a historic decision was made by the committee, which adopted the vision of the mayor, Haim Bibbs, in full for the city’s development goals for 2040, which include, among other things, that the number of residents not exceed 240,000, when future housing units are built in the northwest. Of the city (in the areas between the vineyards and the Prophets neighborhoods and the technology park).
The highlight of this decision is that the southern hills, which are a site with high natural values, will be defined as a national park, within which the national ecological corridor passes. In fact, the southern hills will remain green and allow the city’s residents and guests to enjoy a green lung, which is part of the city’s municipal area, in line with the Bibbs’ policy as part of the city’s master plan.
Mayor of Modiin Maccabim Reut, Haim Bibbs: “Before 25, when the city of Modi’in was established, it was established out of a desire to create a city in the center of the country, which will give its residents a life of abundance of landscape, air and nature and I am happy to see the goal of producing a quality city immersed in green
The mayor thanked all those involved in the craft, especially the members of the city council, the director general of the Planning Administration and the chairman of Holta, Mrs. Dalit Zilber, the committee chairman Adv. Shira Brand, the district planner, Mr. Guy Kaplan and the professional staff who accompanied him, to the Naama office. Melis, the editors of the city’s master plan, the city’s architect Tzachi Katz and the team of the engineering department, the representatives of the green organizations, who accompanied the planning process and even praised the result on the balance between urban development and nature conservation and many more good ones. .