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.

The restaurant on Aqueduct Beach will be demolished

A ruling handed down on 29.8.05 by Judge Daniel Fisch in the Haifa Magistrate Court put an end to the hearing that has been going on for nearly a year on illegal construction on Aqueduct Beach.

The ruling stated that at the end of the current swimming season, the restaurant on Aqueduct Beach will be demolished.

This ruling is compatible with the Caesarea Development Co.'s demand of the operator, who over the years continued to build without a permit and in violation of the law.

As is known, the Caesarea Development Corporation is a financial company and not a local authority. It therefore does not have the authority to enforce the demolition of the buildings. This authority is held by the Hof Hacarmel Regional Council and the local planning and construction committee.

The Aqueduct Beach plan (which was downsized following meetings with residents) that the CDC is trying to advance (based on the plans of architect Gobi Kertesz, a specialist in site preservation) which settles the restaurant operations on the beach so that it operates within the confines of the law, to the complete satisfaction of bathers and Caesarea residents, while maintaining nature, the ruins, the dunes and the clean beaches, as is required of a nationally important site and international tourist attraction.
To read the ruling - click here (Hebrew)

Plan Statute (Hebrew)
Plan Blueprint

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