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What is the master plan?
What is the master plan?
What is NOP 13?
What is the difference between CBP and Plan?
Master Plan for Caesarea
Is there a plan to resolve the traffic jams that occur every summer each time Shlomo Artzi performs at the amphitheater?
Aqueduct Beach Plan
Is there a plan to build a commercial center on the beach?
What are bathhouses and halls mentioned in the plan from 1958?
Gobi Kertesz
What will actually be built on the beach?
Is there a plan to change the designation of the land along the beach?
Neighborhood 1 Plan
Plan 28 236 - change in designation from holiday apartment to residential apartment
Who needs apartments in Caesarea?
Are there any additional development plans in the works?
How are residents involved in the plans?
Can I oppose the plans?
How do residents benefit from town development?

We are happy to provide additional information to these and other questions.
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What is the Master Plan?
The master plan for Caesarea is a strategic-conceptual framework for development and the creed of the plan's sponsor. This is not a legally binding plan but only a work plan that reflects the development philosophy of the plan's sponsors.
Based on this plan, town development planning should span the next several years. The master plan creates an overall picture of the town in several years time while depicting future construction, road system, public buildings, green spaces, etc.
The master plan prevents a scenario of development decisions that are not based on long-term planning. It was therefore important to formulate and present the plan to the public.
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 What is the master plan?
The Planning and Construction law defines four levels of plan: national master plan, district master plan, local master plan and detailed plans. The master plans determine the land designation and uses at the relevant levels whereas detailed plans settle parcelation of the land, rights and construction instructions.
Caesarea's local master plan was prepared at the initiative of the Haifa district committee. The plan's steering committee has representation of all parties of interest in the town: government ministries, neighboring authorities and, of course, members of Ceasarea's residents committees.
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What is National Master plan 13?
The National Master plan No. 13 for shores, which was approved in 1983, was created to balance the need to preserve Israel's shorelines as a public resource and development plans.
The plan includes a series of rules designed to protect the shore and the ocean, such as the rule regarding preservation of 100 construction-free meters at the shoreline.
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What is the difference between the City Building Plan and the Plan?
There is no difference. The concept of CBP (City Building Plan) is an old concept dating back to the Mandate whereas the 1965 Planning and Construction Law introduced the concept of the Plan.
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The Master Plan for Caesarea
The plan prepared by Prof. Yigal Tsamir, one of the country's senior architects, is based on several basic principles, including the need to separate local roads from regional roads, reinforcement of the town with a range of residential options while maintaining the natural and heritage values, quality of life and environment, and Caesarea's position as a quality, unique town.
The plan was prepared, inter alia, to provide a response to Caesearea's unique nature, which includes national sites that draw national and international tourists that are located in close proximity to well-groomed residential neighborhoods.
The plan was not submitted for committee approval since it is a conceptual plan, i.e., has no legal status, but was presented by the Corporation to various authorities, bordering towns, Regional Council, members of the residents committee, to many other residents in various forums, and in February, even to all Ceasarea community members.
The plan includes maintenance of roads and the development of several new facilities, residential complexes, public and tourist spaces as well as an education complex.
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Is there a plan to resolve the traffic that occurs in the summer every time Shlomo Artzi performs at the amphitheater?
The master plan proposes a solution to this problem in the form of a road system that bypasses the residential neighborhoods, so that all traffic to the Caesarea Port and to the amphitheater will not pass through the neighborhoods, thereby transforming Rothschild Boulevard into a local, internal road. There are no plans to construct intersections and multiple lane roads.
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Future Plans
Aqueduct Beach Plan
Caesarea's old master plan that was approved in 1963 designates two areas on the beach for tourism, sports and recreation. These areas are located across Neighborhoods 5 and 6, and today includes a restaurant. Also included within these confines are cafes, restaurants, shops, galleries, banquet halls, bathhouses and new access routes. Despite the proprietary rights anchored in the plan, the Corporation does not intend to implement the entire plan and has no plans to establish a noisy urban center, concrete facilities and commercial centers, as certain parties are claiming.

The CDC was asked to prepare a detailed plan for the entire region in order to resolve the beach services and restaurant activities on the beach so that it would operate with in the confines of the law to the complete satisfaction of the residents while also protecting the nature and antiquities, dunes and clean shores. Due to residents criticism, the Corporation reduced the plan submitted for local committee review.
- The updated plan will not include any change in land designation (e.g. - no change in designation of the national park offered for vista areas)
- The plan boundaries ("the blue line") was significantly reduced by one hundred dunam;
-The detailed plan for northern development across Neighborhoods 5, 6 was cancelled and
- Most of the uses, particularly conference and banquet halls were cancelled;
- Significant reduction in the scale of construction within the proposed plan.
Following these changes, the plan remains modest and takes into account the residents, the ruins, the beaches and nature. Prior the preparation of the plan, architect Gobi Kertesz coordinated the plan with Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority to prepare a sensitivity map for the region that took into account the existing beach and environment (sand dunes, indigenous flora and antiquities), as well as Caesarea's unique character.
The Aqueduct Beach plan is not a significant real estate venture but a public-infrastructure plan - primarily focusing on conservation, that settles (and limits) shoreline development while also preventing construction violations, destruction of dunes and perpetuation of illegal structures.
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Is there a plan to build a commercial center on the beach?
Absolutely not!
The Corporation has no plans to construct a commercial center or banquet hall in the Aqueduct area.
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What are bathhouses and halls mentioned in the plan from 1958 
It is an apparent reference to the locker rooms and restaurants but in the language used at that time.
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Gobi Kertesz
The architect of the Aqueduct plan is Gabriel Kertesz of Jerusalm, who specializes in site development and preservation. His works include the Yamin Moshe neighborhood, Mashkenot Shaananim in Jerusalem, Hameyasdim Street in Zichron Yacov and the Visitors Center in Massada.
Serves as a consultant in the Antiquities Authority.

What will actually be built on the beach?
The strips of sand, the dunes, the aqueduct and the archeological ruins in the area are an important international site that requires statutes to preserve them and in order to prevent illegal ventures and activity. The aqueduct beach plan is designed to protect the beach and will include construction of a restaurant, caf?, kiosk, tourist shops and beach services - and only after the plan has been approved by the planning authorities.
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Are there plans to change the designation of the land along the shore?
Land designation will remain as is and there are no plans to change the designation of the property, some of which has been granted the status of national park. A change in land designation requires the approval of the district committee and other authorities, and in light of the comments and suggestions of residents, the detailed plan dropped instructions pertaining to changes in land designation.
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Neighborhood 1 Plan
The master plan that has been in effect since the 1960s includes land designated for southwestern residential purposes for Neighborhood 2. The Corporation intends to file a detailed plan for the establishment of a new neighborhood (Neighborhood 1), based on the aforementioned existing rights.
The plans involve a limited number of large lots that will overlook the sea and aqueduct. In order to make sure that the adjacent neighborhoods are taken into account, we are committed to preparing sections from each lot in Neighborhood 2 in order to establish the height of construction in each future lot in Neighborhood 1 and to present to the public a physical scale model of the proposed neighborhood.
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 from Holiday Apartments to Residential Apartments
This plan pertains to land located near the golf club. Some of the discussed facility was sold to a private entrepreneur many years ago. The approved CBP today allows for the construction of a recreation and tourist project that includes up to 700 apartments, each of which is 60sq.m., in seven story towers in a complex adjacent to the golf club.
The CDC proposes changing the CBP, and cancel the designation of the holiday apartments and designate the land for the establishment of 3-5 story luxury residential towers.
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Who Needs Apartments in Caesarea?
The CDC believes that this type of project will provide a solution to long-time Caesarea residents (who cannot or who do not want to care for large private homes, and prefer to live in apartments rather than in single family homes). In contrast - the project will attract a new population that prefers living in luxury apartments in the Golf Neighborhood.
The project will be modular. The Corporation believes that construction will begin in three years time. There is a significant advantage in changing the designation from holiday apartments to residential apartments, since residential apartments will be housed by residents who will be part of the community, unlike holiday apartments that will be populated by a changing, uninvolved population. The proposed change to residential designation will enable the construction of fewer units, will maintain particularly high property values as well as the nature of the town, in contrast with the CBP that is currently in effect.
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Are the there additional development plans in the works?
The Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority has initiated and submitted a plan for the declaration of the Carob Reserve as a nature reserve. After many long years of CDC resistance to this plan, an agreement was reached between the Corporation and the NNPPA that established the borders of the reserve and took into account the residential neighborhoods as well as included a directive that allows of the establishment of acoustic shield in the eastern section of the reserve. In addition, the plan would allow for the establishment of a horse ranch such as the one that operated at the site over a decade before.
As with any nature reserve, the Carob Reserve lands will remain by nature untouched by development and construction, other than the construction of walkways for tourists.
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How are residents involved in the plans?
The Corporation presented the master plan that initiated town development to residents. It should be noted that this procedure of notifying residents began over a year ago, in various forums where the plan was introduced, and its presentation to the general public last February completed the process.
Resident representatives sit on the steering committee that discusses the town's master plan. The plan will be accompanied by pubic involvement, as set forth by the steering committee.
The new plans, such as the continued development of Neighborhood 13 and the Carob Reserves are constantly being presented to the Residents Committee for referral.
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General
Can I oppose the plan?
Absolutely. According to the Planning and Construction Law, every plan must undergo meticulous public review and must allow for opposition to be submitted by any party who viewed themselves as being harmed by such a plan. Notification of the plan is published in newspapers and records. The Planning and Construction Committee that is in charge of approving the plan hears the opponents reasons and decides on them before a decision is made regarding approval to validate the plan.
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How do residents benefit from town development?
The Corporation's purpose, according to the Rothschild vision, is the development of a town while maximally maintaining quality of life, quality of environment, resident welfare and property value.
In recent years, the Corporation has proved that it can develop Caesarea in a considerate, controlled manner that sparked a rise in property and land value, in direct contrast with real estate market trends in Israel.
The stringent adherence to environmental quality and quality of life during the development of the business spark, new neighborhoods, restaurants and recreational sites - allows residents to live and enjoy themselves in Caesarea. The development of community life, the youth center activities, the construction of preschools and schools - allows families to provide their children with the finest that life has to offer.
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We are happy to provide any additional information about these and other topics.
For inquiries, please contact the Service and Sales Center:
*6550 Extension 1
04-6174444 Extension 1
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