דו"ח התחדשות עירונית לשנת 2020

126 2020 דו"ח התחדשות עירונית לשנת INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES ON URBAN RENEWAL TRACKS The Urban Renewal Project is a joint project for the public sector (government ministries and local authorities) and for the private sector (owners of rights in private assets and entrepreneurs). Recognizing the benefits of urban renewal processes, the Israeli governments have created a number of tracks in the past two decades to encourage and implement these projects, and the tracks are anchored in government decisions, National Master Plans and legislation. Themain routes are the Local Authorities track, the entrepreneurs track (taxation) and N.M.P. 38. In addition, the Government Authority for Urban Renewal promotes urbanmaster plans for urban renewal, which aim to increase future planning certainty for urban renewal processes and handling of public sector. LOCAL AUTHORITIES TRACK In this track, the local authority initiates the project and is responsible for promoting its public aspects. The Government Authority for Urban Renewal finances detailed planning for the urban renewal, evacuation, construction or building thickening, and works to organize the tenants in the complex and to participate in the process. The local authority is assisted by a project manager, a social consultant and a planning team that promote a detailed plan for the compound, and inform residents and owners of the rights in the compound, cooperate with them and assist in the establishment of resident representative bodies who will be able to work towards implementing the plan once it is approved. In addition, the Minister of Construction and Housing announces the compound as an 'evacuation-construction compound' for a period of six years (there is an option to extend for another six years). In addition to financing the said activities, the declaration also grants tax benefits (betterment ax, purchase tax and VAT on construction services), and enables the postponement of the date of tax liability to the actual stage of implementation. In addition, there is a possibility of exemption from the residential improvement levy, which is contingent upon the decision of he city council and with the approval of the Minister of Construction and Housing and the Minister of the Interior.