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Reading D: Planning and Building or Building and Then Planning?
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The Planning and Building Law passed its third and final reading in the Knesset on July 14, 1965. The Law was twelve years in preparation and is a comprehensive code, considered by text writers to be an adequate law for planning and building in a modern state. Based on the Town Planning Ordinance, 1936, the 1965 Law deviates from the old Law in significant areas. Most significantly, the Planning and Building Law requires the State to conform to the requirements of planning schemes, prepared at the national, district and local level. This deviation from the earlier Law is significant because the Government of Israel is the country's largest builder, and planning would be ineffective if the State were outside the jurisdiction of the Law. With this significant change duly published in Reshumot, the following analysis of a specific land use planning problem casts light directly on the Government's willingness to be governed, and obliquely on the effectiveness of the Planning and Building Law, 1965.
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38 Interview with Moshe Nelkin, Head Research & Systems Planning Dept., Israel Electric Co., in Haifa, April 23, 1972.
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40 Interview with Peter Preuss, Nat'l Council for Research & Development, in Jerusalem, April 4, 1972. Although there is supposedly not an adequate supply for Israel's purposes. Telephone conversation with Daniel Dagan, May 22, 1972.
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58 An Opinion on the Report of the Experts Sporn and Smith Relating to the Establishment of the Reading Power Station in Tel-Aviv, Unpublished report, Ministry of Health (March 31, 1968, in Hebrew) 1–3.
59 Government Decision 361, sec. 1(c). The decision appears in Air Pollution in Israel—a Report of the Israel National Council for the Biosphere & Environmental Quality (1972) 156, 157 (hereinafter cited as Air Pollution in Israel).
60 Government Decision 361, sec. 1.
61 Tel-Aviv Power Plant (Monitoring Devices) Regs. (1971) K.T. no. 2746, p. 1086.
62 Government Decision 728 (1969), according to recommendations adopted in Government Decision 814. See Air Pollution in Israel at pp. 157, 158.
63 These instructions were prepared under the Ministers' combined authority under the Abatement of Nuisances Law, 1961. See letter on file in the Ministry of Justice. Also see discussion, text, infra, p. 502.
64 The standard as set by the Ministry of Health is 0.3 parts per million of SO2 in the atmosphere, with deviations allowed from this standard 1% of the time. Abatement of Nuisances (Air Quality) Regs. (1971) K.T. no. 2783, p. 380, as amended (1972) K.T. no. 2893, p. 1933. The statute does not limit the 1% deviation to a week or a month, therefore deviations above the standard may occur 1% of 365 days a year. This is a definite weakness in the amendment.
65 Air Pollution in Israel at pp. 171–183.
66 Because there were no data prior to construction of Reading D.
67 Statement by Moshe Nelkin, Head of Research & Systems Planning Dept., Kol Yisrael, October 29, 1972.
68 Table number 1, in Antagonistic Environment at p. 26.
69 Civil File 6168/68 (Motion 2087/68), Tel-Aviv Magistrates' Court at p. 1.
70 Donagi, & Kendler, , Air Pollution Problems in Israel (1971) 1.Google ScholarPubMed In addition to SO2, 55 tons of NO2 are emitted by Reading D daily, “Reading D Emits 55 Tons of Nitrogen Oxide Each Day” Ha'aretz, p. 5, col. 4, March 9, 1972. Pollution in Tel-Aviv is already worrisome due to (1) periods of stable weather, (2) strong sunshine, and (3) diesel and gasoline engines with uncontrolled emissions. Peranio, , Why Build a 500 Megaivatt Thermal Electric Generating Station in the Middle of the Tel-Aviv Megalopolis? (1968) 2.Google Scholar
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74 Personal communication. M. Radoscher, Engineer, City of Tel-Aviv-Yafo, Feb. 6, 1973.
75 Summary of meeting in Mr. Rabinowitz's chambers, June 22, 1966, on file in Tel-Aviv.
76 See correspondence between Avraham Levin (letter dated October 27, 1966) and Yehoshua Rabinovitz (letter dated November 27, 1966), on file in Tel-Aviv.
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78 Personal communication, M. Radoscher, Engineer, City of Tel-Aviv-Yafo, Feb. 6, 1973.
79 Id.
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81 Minutes at p. 8.
82 See Gouldman at p. 36.
83 The “notice” requirement fails to give the public adequate notice. Block and parcel numbers only appear in the newspapers. Speech by David Fields, Planning Engineer, City of Jerusalem, Dec. 7, 1972.
84 Planning and Building Law, 1965, sec. 149 ((1965) 19 L.S.I. 330 at 360).
85 Sec. 152.
86 Igra Rama, Ltd. v. Tel-Aviv Planning Commission (1950) 5 P.D. 229. The Supreme Court, sitting as a High Court of Justice will only intervene when the District Commission rejects permission to appeal its decision, which rejection affronts “natural justice”. Block 6108 Corp. v. Tel-Aviv Planning and Bldg. Commis. (1968) (I) 22 P.D. 171, 172.
87 Civil Wrongs Ordinance (New Version) (1968) 10 New Versions 266.
88 Abatement of Nuisances Law (1961) 15 L.S.I. 52. See (1966) I Is. L.R. 462.
89 Id., at secs. 2, 3, 4.
90 Id., at sec. 11.
91 Avissar Oded v. Israel Electric Co., Ltd. (1968) P.M. 1 (decision rendered Mar. 6, 1969). The Kanowitz Law extends its protection to persons but not plants, although this point was not raised in the litigation.
92 Israel Electric Co., Ltd. v. Avissar Oded (1968) P.M. 2 (decision rendered May 12, 1968).
93 Id., at p. 3.
94 Id.
95 Avissar Oded v. Israel Electric Co., Ltd. (1968) P.M. 5.
96 Id., at pp. 5, 6.
97 Id.
98 Id., at p. 13.
99 Israel Electric Co. Ltd. v. Oded Avissar (1969) (II) 23 P.D. 314.
100 Id., at p. 318.
101 A.G. v. PYA Quarries, Ltd. [1957] 2 Q.B. 169, 187.
102 Israel Electric Co. Ltd. v. Oded Avissar (1969) (II) 23 P.D. 314, 320.
103 Oded Avissar v. Israel Electric Co. Ltd. (1968) P.M. 2.
104 Id., at pp. 7, 8.
105 Id., at pp. 13, 14.
106 Cooperative House v. Corporate Receiver (1954) 10 P.D. 1104.
107 Oded Avissar v. Isael Electric Co. Ltd. (1968) P.M. 12.
108 Id., at pp. 13, 14.
109 Id., at p. 14.
110 Avissar Oded v. Israel Electric Co. Ltd. (1970) 75 P.M. 3.
111 Id., at p. 7.
112 Id., at p. 10.
113 Id., at p. 14.
114 Id. at p. 15. See also, Terlo, , “Environment and Law in Israel” (1973) 13 Pub. Admin. 11.Google Scholar
115 Id. The question however is not simply loss of life versus loss of industry because power failures also cause loss of life.
116 The IEC appealed the District Court's decision to the Supreme Court. On June 6, 1973, the Supreme Court accepted the plaintiff's withdrawal of his guia timet plea, since a plea for future damages did not represent the actual state of affairs, i.e. the ongoing operation of the plant. The case was then dismissed without prejudice to the plaintiff to bring an action for present damages resulting from operation of the plant. The Court also held that evidence gathered during the deliberations on the quia timet plea could be used in any subsequent action. Telephone conversation with Yedidia Be'eri, counsel for plaintiff, Sept. 2, 1973.
117 Construction of a new power plant in Ashdod has raised environmental issues. See “Fear from Air and Water Pollution in Ashdod”, Ma'ariv, p. 6, col. 4, April 3, 1972.
118 Haifa suffers from the worst concentrations of air pollution in Israel and also the highest rate of respiratory disease among Israeli children. See “The Kishon is Dying, Haifa is Suffocating” Ma'ariv p. 32 col. 1, March 29, 1972.
119 In situations where the choice limitations open to the court are clear, the court may serve a useful function in preventing the spread of pollution. An example in Israel is the Supreme Court's solution of an airport noise pollution problem by requiring expert investigation and study of the problem and adoption, in the form of a permanent injunction on the recommendations of the investigators. Kanowitz v. Supervisor of Civil Aviation (1972) (I) 26 P.D. 589. It is submitted, however, that such an approach only seems to highlight the court's inadequacy in environmental lawsuits. The Supreme Court did not solve the problem; it did not bring the problem to a close as is its function in the legal process. Professor Guido Calabresi of the Yale Law School explains the legal system's built-in inadequacy in pollution suits in an excellent article where he creates a model for “entitlements” in a legal system. Calabresi & Melamed, “Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral” (1972) 85 Harv. L.R. 1089. Professor Calabresi notes that the courts' major function in pollution litigation is neither (1) to use an injunction whose effects could be disastrous, nor (2) to allow the polluter to pollute at will, with similar effects. Rather the court may place a price on the nuisance in the form of damages and, if the polluter cannot pay the cost of such nuisance, it is not worth polluting. Making this decision by the court, however, is not easy and may have the same disastrous results as (1) and (2) above. The best solution would be to require the polluter to repair the situation technologically and require those who benefit from such repair to pay for it. But reaching this solution properly requires a political and not a judicial decision because of its complexity in the weighing of costs and choice of technological improvement.
120 The Land Law, 1969. See the full text in (1970) 5 Is. L.R. 292.
121 Avissar Oded v. Israel Electric Co. Ltd. (1970) 75 P.M. 3, 12.
122 If they ever did have any meaning. “There is perhaps no more impenetrable jungle in the entire law than that which surrounds the word ‘nuisance’”. Prosser, , The Law of Torts (1964)Google Scholar sec. 29.
123 The term “spaceship-earth” comes from the title of a book by Buckminster Fuller. The concept inspired by spaceship living is that man lives in a limited resource environment and must learn the act of recycling, if he intends to live out the 20th century. What were once considered limitless resources—air and water—may no longer be viewed as such. See Perry, , Our Polluted World (1967) 170.Google Scholar For a discussion of the diseconomies in the use of “unlimited resources”, see e.g., Dolan, , Tanstaafl, The Economic Strategy for Environmental Crises (1971)Google Scholar; Kapp, , Social Costs of Business Enterprises in Controlling Pollution (Goldman, ed., 1967) 82.Google Scholar
124 In a recent article in Ma'ariv, the directors of Machteshim, a significant contributor to air pollution emissions in Beersheba, set out their intention of improving Beersheba air with plant improvements. Questioned as to the effects of pollution from Machteshim, the District Supervisor of the Ministry of Health noted (one hopes ironically): “Until now there have been no known clinical cases as a result of the ecological nuisances caused by Machteshim—air pollution and foul odours”. Ma'ariv p. 6 col. 3, November 26, 1972.
125 Comment, Thermal Electric Power at p. 80.
126 Id., at p. 81.
127 Not to speak of their limitations in scientific analysis. In Round Two of Reading D v. Malraz, the Magistrates' Court judge, after a fine analysis of air pollution causes and remedies, held that the test for determining the maximum height of a smokestack was to limit its height to 2/2 times the height of the nearest tall building. Cf. Civil File 6168/68 (Motion 2087) at p. 7. Actually this test is the one used to prevent aerodynamic downwash from the stack. Brasser, McCormick & Stern Report, supra n. 48 at p. 10. The formula actually used by Brasser and his colleagues to determine the height of the Reading D stack was a bit more complicated. It included stack temperature, exit velocity and stack diameter. Id., at p. 10.
128 Air Navigation Act, 1920, sec. 9 Drayton, , Laws of Palestine III p. 2049Google Scholar, as amended, Flight Law (Regulations Concerning Limitation of Noise from Airplanes) (1967) K.T. no. 2154, p. 476; Road Transport Rules, secs. 7 and 8 Drayton, , Laws of Palestine III p. 2146Google Scholar; Criminal Law Ordinance, 1936, sec. 200.
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130 Abatement of Nuisances Law, 1961, ((1961) 15 L.S.I. 52).
131 See Peranio v. Minister of Health (1972) (I) 21 P.D. 809; Hillel Oppenheimer v. Ministers of Health & Interior (1965) (I) 20 P.D. 309; (1966) 1 Is.L.R. 462.
132 General noise regulations have been promulgated, but without accompanying maximum permissible noise level standards. See Abatement of Nuisances Law (Prevention of Noise) (1966) K.T. no. 1896, p. 2264. But see Ports Ordinance (Prevention of Harmful Noise from Ships) (1972) K.T. no. 2870, p. 1378.
133 Abatement of Nuisances Law (Air Pollution from Vehicles) (1963) K.T. no. 1472, p. 1796; as amended (1963) K.T. no. 1506, p. 92. It may be easy to enforce a black smoke ordinance, but from a health standpoint unseen gases are more dangerous to man. Perry, J., Our Polluted World (1967) 159.Google Scholar
134 The regulations allow an accused person forty-eight hours to remedy the colour of his exhaust. This has limited police initiative under the Law. Interview with Mr. Meltzer, Vice-Mayor of Tel-Aviv-Yafo, in Tel-Aviv, April 30, 1972.
135 Abatement of Nuisances Law (Prevention of Air Pollution from Vehicles) (1972) K.T. no. 2821, p. 790.
136 Recent clinical and field tests show a causal connection between automobile exhaust and heart failure: Ha'aretz, Science Section, p. 4, col. 3, November 24, 1972.
137 Abatement of Nuisances Law (Air Quality) (1971) K.T. no. 2783, p. 380; as amended (1972) K.T. no. 2893, p. 1633; (1972) K.T. no. 2938, p. 360.
138 Abatement of Nuisances Law (Emission of Particulate Matter into the Air) (1972) K.T. no. 2938, p. 361. The amendment may be ineffective, however, because it excludes fly ash as a particulate, while defining fly ash so broadly that it covers all particulates.
139 See O'Fallon, , “Deficiences in the Air Quality Act of 1967” (1968) 33 L. & Contemp. Prob. 275, 277.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
140 (1972) K.T. no. 2927, p. 200.
141 Id.
142 Retroactivity would not be expected, but since present users are exempted under the amendment, a time limitation for use of existing units should have been included in the amendment.
143 See discussion, supra p. 498.
144 Of “Après moi le déluge” fame.
145 The Law, by requiring local plans before district or national plans seemed to the Supreme Court to contradict the concept of a national planning scheme. See City of Bat Yam v. Dist. Planning Comm. of Tel-Aviv-Yafo (1967) (II) 21 P.D. 485.
146 E.g., Jerusalem plan.
147 Address by Haim Kubersky, Director General of the Ministry of Interior, to Conference of Lawyers from Local Authorities, April 4, 1972.
148 Sec. 93. Also there are special requirements for building in public parks. See sec. 158.
149 National Council Decision 70–71, March 2, 1970.
150 Signed by H.M. Shapira on March 2, 1970.
151 Report of the Council for Siting a Power Plant in 1976 (1971).
152 This failure on the part of the committee shows (1) their bias toward electric power needs and its precedence over the environment, and (2) the weakness of the National Planning Council, for it must rely on the report.
153 Letter to Professor Hill from U. Marinov, National Council for Research and Development, April 10, 1972.
154 The various mayors of local councils whose towns were considered as potential sites were heard. Silverstone Interview. Cf., the ombudsman type of approach to siting problems in Krier, , “Environmental Watchdogs: Some Lessons from a ‘Study’ Council” (1971) 23 Stan. L.R. 623.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
155 This method has been approved by a United States study council. Energy Policy Staff at p. 14. The objection to such an approach in Israel is that it undermines the concept of state planning. Overall state planning includes study of energy sources and uses, and such study should be initiated by the National Planning Council, not by the IEC, and it should consider the entire energy picture in Israel, not simply electricity needs and uses.
156 Phillip Sporn, Sporn and Smith Report.