Builders developing roads will get more FSI
Mumbai
In a move that will indirectly benefit developers, the state urban development department has issued a notification that will give them 25% more floor space index (FSI) if they agree to construct a road on a portion of the land that they have surrendered to the BMC. This is over and above the 100% FSI benefit that they receive for handing over the plot for such a project.
The new amendment, carried out in Regulation 33 (1) of the Development Control Rules, 1991, states that when the property owner develops or constructs the road on the surrendered land at his cost, he may be granted an additional FSI equal to 25% of the area for this construction. However, the notification clarifies that this modification will not apply in cases where road FSI has been utilised and occupation certificate granted.
Moreover, the 25% additional FSI will be allotted to a developer only after he meets all stipulations prescribed by the civic authority. The pre-modified regulation did not have any such provision of granting FSI to developers who construct road on the plot of land surrendered for such purpose.
Under the old regulation, the commissioner only had powers to grant 100% FSI to any developer who surrendered his land for road-widening or road construction without claiming any compensation. This provision has been retained in the notification that was issued on June 17.
Criticising the notification, architect Nitin Killawala of JVPD Association said, “The government has come out with yet another innovative method to dole out FSI benefit to developers. One cannot understand why the country’s richest municipal corporation is shying away from its responsibility of carrying out road development work from its own coffers.”
The Practising Engineers’, Architects’ and Town Planners’ Association (PEATA) had approached the authorities asking them to modify the DC Rules. Justifying the new notification, PEATA’s president Ajit Khatri said, “With this amendment, the authorities have corrected a major anomaly in the DC rules.”
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