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| | Reaching new heights | Jerusalem Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | For years the neighborhood of Romema (Hebrew for "uplifted"), which sits at the northwest entrance to the city and is bordered by the haredi enclaves of Mattersdorf, Kiryat Belz and Makor Baruch, has been home to light industry, including an assortment of garages, foundries, carpentry workshops and factories. |
 | | Municipal planning officials, fearing that the neighborhood would be overrun by disparate development initiatives with disastrous implications for the residents' quality of life, decided to get involved and in early 2005, the municipality froze development in the area. |
 | | The unique municipal initiative, which was the joint vision of planning officials and residents, put a hold on development in the area for a year-and-a-half as a comprehensive plan was formulated that would coordinate the building plans of private developers and allocate spaces for public use. |
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