Urban Planning

• The Jerusalem Municipality has a plan to widen Rehov HaNeviim ((http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/street-of-prophets.html ). This would mean tearing down beautiful walls and buildings, some a century and a half old. Perhaps facades would be preserved as the are on Rehov Yafo near the shouk.
• The Jerusalem Municipality has a plan to build a parking ramp on the hill overlooking the Valley of the Cross ((http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/view.html ) from the east. This would require destroying the park.
• The Jerusalem Municipality has a plan to allow two high-rise hotels in the Moshava ((http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/german-colony.html ). One would be built over the German Templar meeting house, an architectural gem at the apex of the triangle.
• I think that the streets division of the transportation department considers only transportation and the parking division only cares about meeting parking goals. What the building-permit people have in mind is murky.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox