Zarqa City faces a major problem in its urban planning and design. Four main obstacles surround the city. From the north the location of heavy industry such as the Jordanian Refinery, the thermal plant for producing electricity and the purification unit to treat the wastes of the capital Amman and Zarqa are situated. From the west the natural barriers of steep mountains, where the slope reaches more than 30%, exists. From the south the City of Amman boundaries reaches Zarqa. And from the east the military camps is located. The current figure of population is around 838,250 inhabitants and there is no place for the city to expand. The only solution to expand the city was to demolish the military site existing to the eastern section of the city to facilitate its eastward expansion. This was begun in the year 2002 and a new project named

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