{"id":15408,"date":"2010-11-09T17:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=15408&lang=en"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:57:49","slug":"the-plan-in-ariel-the-power-of-the-private-initiative-in-the-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-plan-in-ariel-the-power-of-the-private-initiative-in-the-settlements","title":{"rendered":"The Plan in Ariel \u2013 The Power of the Private Initiative in the Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Haaretz newspaper (9\/11\/2010)<\/a> revealed that a construction project of 800 housing units west of the settlement of Ariel is being promoted. Peace Now: \u201cthere are approx. 13,000 housing units like the 800 in Ariel that were approved in the past and can be implemented today without any further approval<\/a> of the government, and the settlers are eager to implement them. Unless the government declares a total freeze on the construction, including the private initiatives, it will be a group of private extreme settlers to determine Israel\u2019s policy in the West Bank\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s in the Plan?<\/strong>
\nThose unites are part of the City Plan No. 130\/3\/1 that was approved at the early 1990’s.
\nThe plan is for a new neighborhood outside of the built up area of Ariel, at a site that if built, it will complete the blocking of the Palestinian municipality of Salfit from both sides: Ariel from the North, and the new neighborhood from the West.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s New about the Plan?<\/strong>
\nAccording to the report in Haaretz, the land was claimed to be owned by two different private Israeli investors, and about one month ago, the court has decided the final ownership. The court’s decision paves the way for the investor to start the implementation of the construction. All the investor has to do is to prepare a program for each of the planned buildings and to get a construction permit from the municipality of Ariel. This step, if completed quickly, can take about one year.<\/p>\n

Is There Governmental Involvement in the Plan?<\/strong>
\nAccording to the current law and procedures in the territories, permission from the Defense Minister is required for two main phases: In the planning phase and in the phase of marketing the land.
\nThe planning phase of the land in Ariel finished in the early 1990’s and received all the necessary permits and approvals. As for the land sale phase, approval from the Minister of Defense is required only in cases where public land (also known as “State Land”) is involved.\u00a0 In cases where private land is involved as in the case of the 800 new housing units in Ariel, no approval from the Defense Minister is needed for the marketing of the land and the developer can turn directly to the local authorities to get his final permits.
\nAccording to Peace Now count there are aprox. 13,000 housing units that can be built without any further approval by the government, based on old plans that were approved in the past and on land ownership that was already granted to private people or settler organizations.<\/p>\n

Can the Plan Be Stopped?<\/strong>
\nEven though the current legal procedures allow the private developer to start construction without any government approval, the government has many ways to stop the construction. For example, the government can easily decide to change the regulations and require government approval for any implementation of a project, including private projects, or it can issue a freeze order like the one it issued a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Haaretz newspaper (9\/11\/2010) revealed that a construction project of 800 housing units west of the settlement of Ariel is being promoted. Peace Now: \u201cthere are approx. 13,000 housing units like the 800 in Ariel that were approved in the past and can be implemented today without any further approval of the government, and the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[1385,2525],"class_list":["post-15408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","category-settlement-watch","tag-ariel","tag-planning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15419,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions\/15419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}