Last week, the Raanana Municipality signed another building permit  for a residential building on Gordon Street, which will join the TAMA 38 Plan.  The chairman of the Local Committee for Planning and Construction, city councilman, Adv. Eitan Ginzburg, and the city engineer signed the permit, after the residential building met all the planning requirements and conditions.

On the table of the local committee for planning and construction are additional requests from apartment building tenants interested in implementing the plan.  Recently, the planning and construction subcommittee approved another request to implement TAMA 38 on Brenner Street, contingent upon its meeting the accepted conditions.

The residential building on Gordon Street will join the 3 building permits already issued to apartment buildings on Bar Ilan, Weizman and Brenner Streets and include strengthening the building’s foundation, work on the building’s facade and adding an additional floor.  The work on the apartment buildings on Bar Ilan and Brenner Streets is currently underway.  The building permit issued for the apartment building on Gordon Street includes:  reinforcing the building against earthquakes, adding 2 apartments – new garden apartments - on the ground floor, another apartment on the upper floor as a roof apartment, adding security protective rooms and balconies to the four existing residential units, adding an elevator and 9 parking spaces and upgrading the building’s facades with ceramic tiling.

This is good news for the residents and for the city as a whole:  Thanks to the implementation of this plan, the apartment building’s tenants will benefit from a building that meets all the safety standards in case of earthquake, and their property value will increase thanks to the renovation of the apartment, its expansion and upgrade.  The city of Raanana will benefit from urban renewal of its older buildings, which will change the face and appearance of its streets.

The TAMA 38 Plan is a government program designed to encourage residents of the State of Israel, who live in buildings built before 1980, to renovate their buildings, so they will meet the safety standards in the case of earthquakes.

Implementing this program does not cost the tenants money and it enables the contractors to conduct a thorough upgrade of the building, including building additional floors and selling the new apartments on the open market.

Mayor Nahum Hofree:  “The plan offers a window of opportunity to residents and is in line with our city vision of urban renewal.  We are doing our utmost to help residents implement this plan and invite building committees to join this program and benefit from its many advantages.  We support any initiative to implement this plan and consider the reinforcing of older buildings and bringing them up to safety standards in case of earthquake, to be of utmost public importance.”