Principles for Innovative Planning

1. A network of cities must be developed to absorb migration and enable mobility from Arab villages to Arab, Jewish and mixed cities.

2. Development aims must be long-term and take into account the fruition of spontaneous multi-generational building processes among private owners (based on traditional housing of the extended family on separated floors under the same roof).

3. Planning should be based on optimal municipal borders within a given and limited area, with sensitivity toward the landscape and natural resources.

4. Planning processes must create an efficient urban infrastructure that can support itself with independent economic resources.

5. The amount of public and open spaces within Arab communities must be increased and the gap between them and their Jewish neighbors regarding this issue must be closed, based on the accepted standards for Israeli society as a whole.

6. Planning processes must stem from a holistic regional outlook that includes both Jewish and Arab populations of the region.  

7. Arab localities must be an integral part of nation-wide planning for the placement of national institutions and agencies.

8. The implementation of plans in Arab communities should create new tools for the regularization of ownership and the development of lands based on the needs of the entire community, and not narrow family or clan interests.

9. Respect for the national, traditional, and religious resources of the Arab population is crucial to the planning Arab communities and tools for preservation, cultivation, and dissemination of those resources should be created.

10. Development of Arab communities, as Jewish ones, must be based on principles of sustainability, seeking to harmonize social, economic and environmental interests.

11. The local economy should be opened to the larger Israeli market, realizing the untapped human and other resources of the Arab Israeli communities.

12. Neighboring Jewish and Arab communities should be planned in a way that maximizes opportunities for cooperation, considering in particular the possibility of joint initiatives on the lands that lie between them.