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EISEN – ARCHITECTS & URBAN PLANNERS SAR SHALOM AVIAD - planning and managing environmental projects Liron Amdur Ph.D. - Spatial planning-agriculture-environment 1 Steering, Work and Planning Teams Steering Committee Members: Eli Malcha – Head of the Golan Regional Council Uri Kellner – Deputy Chairman of the Golan Regional Council Danny Rotstein – CEO of the Golan Regional Council Avi Sharon – Director of the Engineering, Infrastructures and Planning Division, Golan Regional Council Yael Mizrahi –Geographic Information Systems Unit, Golan Regional Council Micha Van Ralta - Director of the Golan Agricultural Committee, Golan Regional Council Sharon Levi – Director of Israel Nature and Parks Authority's Golan District Zohar Zakai – Planner, Israel Nature and Parks Authority Chava Goldstein – Biologist, the Golan region, Israel Nature and Parks Authority Ra'anan Emoyal – The Planning Authority, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Nahum Sela – Planner, Northern District, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Tony Hoffman – Chairman of the Cattle Ranchers Committee, Cattle Growers in the Golan. Dan Melkinson – Ecologist, Golan Research Institute Yossi Nakash – Golan Regional Director, Settlement Unit, World Zionist Organization Shmulik Tzur – Projects Coordinator, Settlements Division, World Zionist Organization Pinchas Kahana – Director of Planning Department, Jewish National Fund Effi Naim – Forester, Golan and Hula regions, Jewish National Fund Yahel Porat – Ecologist, Jewish National Fund Dorit Sela – Deputy Director - Northern District, Ministry of Environmental Protection Michal Ayak – Planner, Northern District, Ministry of Environmental Protection Oded Aviv – Representative of the Defense Minister on district committee, IDF (Israeli Defense Force) Planning Department Roy Vakrat – Planning Department, IDF Dror Febzner – Water and Rivers Department, Ministry of Environmental Protection Rami Lenner – CEO - Mei Golan Kobi Gavish – Plan Director, Golan Regional Council 2 Work Committee Members: Kobi Gavish – Environmental Unit, Golan Regional Council, Chairman of Work Committee Danny Rotstein – CEO, Golan Regional Council Avi Sharon – Council engineer, Golan Regional Council Yael Mizrahi – Geographic Information Systems Unit, Golan Regional Council Micha Van Ralta - Director, Golan Agricultural Committee, Golan Regional Council Raz Amir – Golan Regional Director, Nature and Parks Authority Zohar Zakai – Planner, Nature and Parks Authority Chava Goldstein – Ecologist, Nature and Parks Authority Ra'anan Amoyal – Planning Authority, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Nachum Sela – Northern District, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Tony Hoffman – Representative of the cattle ranchers in the Golan Dan Melkinson – The Golan Research Institute Yossi Nakash – Settlement Division, World Zionist Organization Shmulik Tzur – Settlement Division, World Zionist Organization Pinchas Kahana – Jewish National Fund Dorit Sela – Ministry of Environmental Protection Oded Aviv – Representative of the Minister of Defense on the District Committee, Planning Division, IDF Planning Team Members: Architect Ilan Izan – Head of the planning team Dr. Liron Amdor – Agriculture, economy, project coordination Aviad Sar Shalom – environment, tourism Architect Ella Mannheim, Amitai Stern – GIS computing, drawing maps and sketches Architect Noah Baltar - Landscape 3 Structure of the Document This document consists of the following chapters: Introductions that include an outline of the boundaries of the plan, its purposes and objectives as defined by the regional council upon ordering the project and updated by the steering and work committees; the national policy for plans made on the Golan compared to the vision of its residents, and the concept of the master plan for open spaces between the two; a description of the plan's documents; definitions of the main terms of the plan, and the methodology used to prepare the master plan. Planning directives– the plan divided the Golan into several planning areas as specified in the planning areas' sketch. The plan on chapter directives presents the plan's directives for each area and the unique areas included therein, as well as other general planning-related issues. Appendix A – Directives concerning tourism-based projects under the search for tourism development region, which relies on a master plan for tourism development in the Golan Appendix B – An abstract of the preliminary work stages, such as current-status survey, the vision's definition, the purposes and objectives, the methodology used for analyzing the value of open spaces, and locating a focal planning regions. Each chapter was circulated to the work committee members, discussed in this forum and published to the wider public on the environmental unit's website at the Golan Regional Council. An additional document of the plan is the administrative interface (attached in a separate file) – a document that includes principle recommendations concerning the decision- making processes and the administration of the open spaces in the Golan, including an outline for the creation of an administration specifically for this subject. 4 Introductions A. 1. The plan's boundaries The master plan for the open spaces in the Golan relates to the open spaces within the Golan Regional Council only. The area units, regarded as constructed areas, are not included in the planning. The areas excluded from the plan include: settlement areas, employment areas, army camps, various constructed projects and areas under planning for future construction – approved and retained plans, and those that are in advanced stages of preparation. The Druze settlements in the Golan and the Katzrin Local Council are not included in the plan. However, cooperation with those two bodies is essential for meeting the plan's objectives, since natural continuity does not recognize municipal boundaries. The plan recognizes the tremendous importance of harnessing these settlements into the planning and cultivation process of the open spaces, and efforts to that end should be invested by any means. Efforts will be made to incorporate the representatives of these settlements in the open-spaces administration and to promote planning for the open spaces in their surrounding area. A. 2 The plan's targets and objectives: The plan's targets: 1. To create a planning tool for directing the uses of the open spaces in the Golan in a manner that balances the conservation of natural resources, landscape and unique heritage on the one hand with agricultural development, tourism and alternative energy infrastructures on the other. 2. To create an authorization system for planning policy and administration of the open spaces to be developed under the plan with the residents of the regional council, interested parties, authorities and state bodies. 3. Sustainable development in the open space of the Golan region to achieve a win- win situation. The plan's objectives: A. To facilitate the expansion of the agricultural uses on the open spaces and their associated water infrastructures in the Golan, in accordance with area data. 5 B. To facilitate forestation in the Golan region with local plant species, in the areas designated as suitable for the ground's ecological conditions, while maintaining the primeval undergrowth landscapes and plant life as characteristically low and open for the Golan. In addition, planting should take place in small patches for tourism, holiday-making and pasture shading purposes. C. To determine areas and ground units for the preservation and cultivation of the natural habitat, landscape and heritage, in accordance with ecological and landscape- based concerns, in tandem with cultural and heritage-related values that are specific to that location, while maintaining continuity of open spaces. D. To characterize areas for sustaining and developing tourism activities in the open spaces against the backdrop of the master plan for tourism in the Golan, in accordance with the Golan's landscape and heritage. E. To identify areas in the Golan where alternative-energy projects should be restricted or permitted (wind/solar) in accordance with the nature of the area and the characteristics of its environment. F. To identify areas that allow for the creation of water plants, water-collection and rainwater reservoirs. G. To enable the expansion of the camping area within the Golan settlements according to their needs, and according to national planning policy as well as the regional council's policy. H. To encourage partnerships, including educational and cultural human interactions between the open spaces and the adjacent population. I. Construction of mechanisms for resolving future problems and disagreements pertaining to the uses of the open spaces in the Golan. J. Use of the plan's products as an informational and educational tool concerning the importance of the open spaces, their value and the means of preserving and nurturing them. K. To be used as planning-based groundwork for preparing a statutory plan in the Golan on all levels. 6 National Outline Plan 35 determines three kinds of qualities: a conserved integrated quality in western Golan; a rural quality in central Golan; a preserved national quality in eastern Golan. 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