City hall insists building committee postponed for ‘technical reasons’

The Interior Ministry for planning and construction in Jerusalem, not a municipal committee, approved construction over the Green Line in the Ramot neighborhood Tuesday.

City Hall insists postponing its own planning and construction committee’s meeting is not a deliberate building freeze, and that it was postponed for “technical reasons.”

Army Radio reports that City Hall postponed its committee meetings concerning Jerusalem construction, preventing giving permits for construction over the Green Line during Netanyahu and Obama’s meet.

Deputy Mayor Dov Kalmanovitz rails at the move to delay the meetings, saying that if construction plans get postponed every time the prime minister meets a foreign official, the US State Department had might as well set up a planning and construction committee for Jerusalem in the municipality’s stead.