Israel ponders a new Arab town

From Ha'aretz it appears that Israel is considering building a new Arab town from scratch. I think Israel designates its towns Jewish, Arab or mixed but I'll have to check:

Chairman of the Interior Committee for Building and Planning Issues in the Arab sector MK Raleb Majadele (Labor) responded to Dahoud by saying that "not everybody supports the creation of a new Arab town. There are many who believe that the expansion of existing towns and communities is preferable."

MK Abdulmalik Dehamshe (United Arab List) disagreed with Majadele, arguing that "we must strive to create many Arab towns in Israel."

During the debate, the committee considered several issues plaguing Israeli Arab communities, including the shortage of public space, the poor infrastructure levels, and the wide-scale illegal construction.

Dahoud presented a list of recommendations for dealing with these issues, including comprehensively reforming the planning and building laws to allow Arab towns to expand legally, distributing land ownership more equally, and changing the government's land expropriation policy.

Here's Israeli architect, Abe Hayeem's take on this from the Just Peace UK list:

This sort of enterprise has often been mooted, but little has come of it.

It simply does not square with the limitations put on Palestinian Israelis' lack of land and property rights encased in Israeli law, and could be a ruse to take over the centres of the 'mixed' cities by the ultra Orthodox, and thus segregate the two communities even further. Why then are internally displaced Palestinians not allowed to return to what few remains exist of their villages, like Livta, which are being developed for Jewish -only luxury housing, while negating any sign of their previous presence there?