Jerusalem s White Ridge plan put on hold
The environmentally controversial 5,000 home neighborhood could be blocked by the failure of the Ora junction interchange to win approval.
Environmentalists opposed to the rezoning of 210 acres of forest in the Jerusalem Hills for the planned White Ridge neighborhood have been handed a lifeline.
The National Planning and Building Commission s Appeals Sub-Committee has cancelled a decision by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee to expand the junction at Moshav Ora into a two level interchange and insisted that the plan must be redesigned. The committee was petitioned by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI).
5,250 home Jerusalem Hills neighborhood wins final approval
Fiercely opposed by environmentalists, the White Ridge is between Ora, Aminadav and Kiryat Menachem.
Israel s National Planning and Building Commission Appeals Committee has awarded final approval to the controversial new White Ridge (Rekhes Lavan) neighborhood in the Jerusalem Hills. The planned 5,250 housing units will be located on a terraced hillside between the Ora and Aminadav agricultural cooperatives south of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Menachem. The land is partly within the Jerusalem Municipality and partly in the Mateh Yehuda regional council.
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The appeals committee convened to hear the fierce opposition from dozens of groups especially on environmental grounds. But the committee ruled, The aim of the plan justifies the harm that it will cause. The opponents also petitioned the Supreme Court earlier this year but in May their appeal was dismissed.