to sell, until an approval of consolidation and redistribution.111 The remaining 21.3 km² (30%) has remained unplanned.112 The Jerusalem Local Outline Plan 2000 On 13 September 2004, Jerusalem Master Plan 2000 was presented as a comprehensive and authoritative Israeli Planning Scheme that served as the authoritative blueprint for all municipal planning within the Jerusalem Municipality. According to the Plan, all Local Planning Schemes developed for specific neighborhoods within the Municipality must conform the zoning and planning provisions as detailed in the Master Plan. Although its guiding policy only becomes mandatory once it is approved by all relevant bodies, it already constitutes a guiding strategy supplanting pre-existing and already approved plans driven by the authorities’ political considerations.113 However, until today, this is exclusively the case if it serves the increase of the Jewish-Israeli population and the decrease of Palestinians in Jerusalem: If we look at the new planning units in the colonies, you would see that these fit exactly in the Master Plan. They have plans to build approximately 23,000 units, all part of the Master Plan. [On the day of the interview] they announced the construction of 660 new units in Ramat Shlomo. These units fit exactly in the Master Plan. On the other hand, when the Palestinians go to the planning authorities to use the Master Plan for their new areas, for example in Beit Haninah where – according to the Master Plan – the ability exists to build 2000 new units, they were told: ‘ok but we did not approve the Master Plan yet.114 Accordingly, the Jerusalem Municipality’s planning policy continues to be applied in a discriminatory way. For instance, although the Local Outline Plan 2000 foresees 13,500 new housing units for the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem, there will be a tremendous shortfall of 15,000-30,000 housing units by 2030.115 In the meantime, 5000 dunums are foreseen for the expansion of Israeli colonies in East Jerusalem, serving a population of 111 Large areas of land in East Jerusalem are not registered and not resolved/arranged and aren’t registered in the Land Registry on the name of their owners. According to the Local Committee’s position, proving land ownership is a prerequisite for the issuance of a building permit. This is an insurmountable hurdle for the residents as this involves political and legal complications - especially the problem of absenteeism and the fears of residents from the loss of land rights, if they could not prove ownership. 112 OCHA, Special Focus: East Jerusalem Key Humanitarian Concerns, 29; CCPRJ, Urban Planning in Jerusalem, 1. 113 B’Tselem, A Policy of Discrimination, Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem. 114 Ahmad Sub Laban, field researcher and expert regarding planning and zoning in Jerusalem. Interview, 3 November 2014. 115 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians, A Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities, 108. 39