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1.2 Shuafat About the Neighborhood Shuafat Developed Over the Last Century As a Wealthy Suburb Between Jerusalem and Ramallah 1.2 About the Neighborhood Shuafat developed over the last century as a wealthy suburb between Jerusalem and Ramallah. After 1967, Shuafat is the southernmost Palestinian neighborhood when the neighborhood came within the municipal shuafat along the Ramallah Road, connecting between border of Jerusalem, Shuafat continued to develop Survey of Palestinian Neighborhoods in East Jerusalem northern Jerusalem and Ramallah. The neighborhood as an upper-middle-class urban neighborhood. Along Jerusalem North is bordered by the French Hill Junction to the south, with Beit Hanina, it became an attractive housing Highway 60 to the east, the Palestinian neighborhood destination for Palestinians, citizens of Israel and of Beit Hanina to the north, and the ultra-orthodox Jerusalemites alike, in particular due to its urban Jewish neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo (built on character, relatively low residential density, and Shuafat land during the height of the Oslo period), to available land for construction. Until the beginning of the west. East of the neighborhood, beyond Highway the 1990s it was primarily Palestinian citizens of Israel 60 and the Separation Barrier, is the Shuafat refugee who moved to Shuafat, however with the outbreak camp, built on part of the original lands of the village. of the second intifada and the construction of the • Originally, Shuafat lands extended to the edge of Separation Barrier, the neighborhood began to see Ramallah Road Zone the adjacent villages: Beit Hanina, Anata, and Lifta. substantial migration from Palestinian suburbs of Refugees from Lifta (whose village center was entirely Jerusalem that were cut off from the city by the depopulated during the 1948 war and remained on Barrier. The urban center along the Ramallah Road the Israeli side), built homes on agricultural land began to grow. High demand led to skyrocketing abutting Shuafat, then under Jordanian control; today housing prices and growing density, and today, many these homes are trapped within the post-1967 Israeli Palestinians have to seek housing solutions elsewhere. neighborhood of Givat Shapira (commonly known as Nonetheless, demand for housing in Shuafat remains French Hill). Today Shuafat lies on either side of the high, especially among the better off. Ramallah Road, and the historical core of the village is located to the west of the road. H w y MAP OF ZONES 6 Facts 0 ( o l d Population 27,000 Kafr ) Aqab 43 Area 2,208 dunam wy 4 H H wy 45 H wy 60 4 0 Ramallah 4 Road y w H Rd. 20 R a m a l l a h R d . Anata Hwy 1 City Mt. Jaff a R Center Scopus d. & H 1 4 w y . Mt. of Olives d R Greater Silwan . d R n o Jabal r b al- e H Mokabber Map Legend Beit Safafa Al- East Jerusalem Old City Walaje Sur Baher Expropriated Land Green Line Northern Zones Separation Barrier ) d l 60 o y ( Central Zones Roads Hw 0 6 y Southern Zones West Jerusalem w H 1.2 Main Problems in Shuafat penalize the Palestinian Authority for seeking and open spaces. This estimate is based on Shuafat, in part because more intensive construction As-Sahel, the Undeveloped Plain recognition at the UN by expanding Israeli unrealistic implementation predictions and would be enabled along it. shuafat The Jerusalem 2000 Outline Plan construction in East Jerusalem. does not account for the many available open South of the village core, west of the Ramallah Road, and east The new outline plan for Jerusalem, which Most of the remainder of the expansion for public areas in Shuafat that are still awaiting Difficulties Obtaining Building Permits of the open scenic areas that are designated for the expansion awaits deposition, allocates an area of 130 Ramat Shlomo is located to the north, on land development. Land-ownership registration in Shuafat is considered of the neighborhood, is a large, mostly vacant, plain of about dunam, west of the village core, for the that is not contiguous with the built-up area of In line with the municipality’s revised policy, “in progress.” This fact encumbers the process 90 dunam. The area, known as as-Sahel (“the plain,” in Arabic), expansion of Shuafat, on lands currently Ramat Shlomo. Rather, it protrudes deep into since 2009 existing buildings are usually of submission of detail plans and building-permit is a valuable and desirable land reserve, especially considering zoned as open scenic areas. The area is mostly Shuafat’s land reserves, essentially laying the permitted small additions of up to two requests, which are contingent on proof of land- that flat, vacant, land is a rarity in Jerusalem in general and East vacant, and partly cultivated. One resident, groundwork for a new Israeli settlement on storeys, allowing a maximum of six storeys ownership. Furthermore, the neighborhood plan Jerusalem in particular. Today, only a number of dirt roads and who owns about a third of the area, has Shuafat land. As evidence of these intentions, with 160-180% building ratios. Some further for Shuafat has designated various areas in which about six houses exist here. According to the neighborhood independently initiated a plan on his part of Shuafat’s expansion area was reduced to the enlargement is possible on large plots and re-parcelization plans must be approved before plan, the area is zoned mostly as residential, with sections the land. However, since the Jerusalem 2000 current 130 dunam and the new settlement along the Ramallah Road. Since most of the any building permits can be issued. This process designated for open areas or public buildings. Development Outline Plan stipulates that detailed planning was drawn to connect with the entire Ramat residential areas are zoned for 2-3 storeys, this is extremely lengthy, and not always done in of the area is pending the approval of its re-parcelization plan, is contingent on comprehensive planning for Shlomo expansion. policy makes it virtually impossible to legalize consultation with the landowners. As a result, the which is being advanced by the Jerusalem Municipality. the entire expansion area, this plan is unlikely an existing building of more than 5 storeys, situation on the ground is not always reflected in The objection of one of the landowners in the area, to the to be approved. The case demonstrates the Unrealistic Densification Policy and even that requires the submission of a the plans, once approved, and further adjustments land-swap arrangements proposed in the plan, has frozen the difficulties residents encounter when trying to At the time of the validation of the neighborhood detail plan – a long, expensive, and uncertain are required. Likewise, in recently approved plans, planning process and led to the declaration of the rest of the advance overall planning, even for substantive plan for Shuafat, in 1998, the Local Planning and process. Moreover, the municipality’s policy the re-parcelization has no proprietary implications, re-parcelization plans as “parcelization for planning purposes parcels of land. Meanwhile the Jerusalem Building Committee already recognized that uses increased building ratios (250%-320%) to because the Jerusalem Municipality legal advisor only.” In areas adjacent to as-Sahel, additional re-parcelization Municipality has taken no steps to publicly the building densities it provided would need to encourage replacing existing buildings with has deemed it impossible to implement proprietary plans have not yet been approved, also in the wake of objections initiate a comprehensive plan for this area. be enlarged, in order to meet the distinctively new construction, particularly on large plots. re-parcelization on land for which registration is “in by residents. As a result, the parcelization plans for as-Sahel and Thus, although the expansion is essential for urban character of the neighborhood. As a This increase is conditioned, however, on the progress.” These bureaucratic obstacles hinder the its immediate vicinity have been sent back to the drawing board. the neighborhood’s development, it is not result, some densification was implemented allocation of areas – whether vacant or built-up implementation of approved plans, including the Until these are approved, the process of obtaining building likely to be realized in the near future. through re-parcelization plans and sporadic – for public use. In many cases the landowners attainment of building permits and the regularization permits and effectively developing these areas remains frozen, In addition, some 440 dunam have been allotted detail plans, though without an overarching are also required to develop the public area of existing construction. In order to remove some of as it has been since the approval of the neighborhood plan a for the expansion of Ramat Shlomo. The bulk policy. Such a policy was finally formulated in the at their own expense. Most residents prefer the difficulties, a provisional permits committee was decade and a half ago. In summation, at the time of writing of this expansion is a 330 dunam strip abutting Jerusalem 2000 Outline Plan (see elaboration), expanding existing buildings, even if this means established in the Beit Hanina-Shuafat Community (2013), development of as-Sahel continues to be delayed. the existing Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood which stipulated that densification would occur receiving fewer building rights, rather than Center as a pilot program of the Jerusalem from the southwest. This area is included via the construction of six to eight storeys partaking in such “allocation deals.” Thus, Municipality. The committee examines the initial in a publicly funded detail plan initiated by with building ratios of 200% to 320%. And in effect only a small amount of the building feasibility of the requests, focusing on verification of the housing ministry, which was fast-tracked yet, the Jerusalem Municipality recanted, potential proposed in the current policy is the land ownership of residents who are interested towards final approval and implementation, claiming that such an intense densification realized.
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