COMPILATION OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL …

1 COMPILATION OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL regulations UPTO 1ST JANUARY 2015 FOR MUMBAI ( Incorporating all modifications finally sanctioned under relevant provisions of the Act) Er. Gopal D Chiplunkar , then Municipal Engineer 9930066327 DEVELOPMENT CONTROL regulations FOR GREATER MUMBAI TABLE OF CONTENTS Regulation No. / Table No. Contents page (s) Administration 1. Short Title, Extent and Commencement 2 2. Definitions of Terms and Expressions 2-12 3. Applicability 1. DEVELOPMENT and Construction 2. Part construction 3. Change of occupancy 4. Reconstruction 5. Exclusions 12 12 12 12 12 4. DEVELOPMENT Permission and Commencement Certificate 1. Necessity of obtaining permission 2. Items of operational construction by some authorities excluded 3. Operational constructions excluded 4. Validity of DEVELOPMENT permission 5.

2 Applicability to partially completed works 13-14 13 13 13 14 14 5. Procedure For Obtaining DEVELOPMENT Permission And Commencement Certificate 1. Notice of intention 2. Copies of plans and statements 3. Information accompanying notice 4. Signing of plans by owners and licensed personnel/architect 5. Processing of the DEVELOPMENT permission application 6. Commencement of work 14-19 14 14-15 15-18 18 18-19 5 (Table 1) Drawing Sheet Sizes 5 (Table 2) Coloring of plans 6. Procedure during Construction 1. Construction to be in conformity with regulations 2. Notice for start of work 3. Documents at site 4. Checking of plinth columns up to plinth level 5. Deviation during constructions 6. Completion Certificate 7. Occupancy Certificate 8. Part-occupancy Certificate 19-20 19 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 7. Amendment/modification to Appendices X to XXIII 20 8.

3 Inspection 1. Inspection at various stages 2. Inspection by Fire Department 3. Unsafe buildings 4. Unauthorized DEVELOPMENT 20 20 20 20 20 PART II General Planning Requirements Land uses and Manner of DEVELOPMENT - 9 Land uses and Manner of DEVELOPMENT 21-62 9 (Table 4) Land uses and Manner of DEVELOPMENT User (Allocation, designation or reservation), person or authority who may develop, conditions subject to which DEVELOPMENT is permissible. 21-62 10. DEVELOPMENT Permission In Respect Of Public Housing/High Density Housing 63 11. Other stipulations 1. General 2. DEVELOPMENT of land partly designated /allocated/reserved 3. Combination of public purposes uses in reserved sites 63 4. Shifting and/or interchanging designations / reservations 12. DEVELOPMENT in Large Holding 63 13. Exemption 1. Existing non-conforming uses to continue in certain circumstances 2.

4 Non-conforming industries 3. Other non-conforming uses 63-64 63-64 64 64 14. Ancillary uses permitted 64 15. Prohibition of Factories in Residential Buildings in Conforming zones. 64 16. Requirements of sites 65-66 17. Public Streets and means of access 1. Access to be free of encroachment 2. Multi-storeyed, High rise and the Special Buildings 3. Other Buildings 4. Plots/Buildings abutting or fronting a means of access 66 66 66 66 66 18. Highway and Wider Roads 66 19. Means of access to be constructed and maintained 1. General 2. Private Street 3. How to measure the length and maintained 67 67 20. Inter-section of roads 67 21. Layout of Land and Land Sub-division 1. Circumstances warranting preparation of a lay-out or sub-division 2. Contents 3. Minimum plot areas 67 }67 21 (Table 5) Minimum plot areas for various uses 68 22.

5 Internal means of access to each plot 1 Minimum road width vis-a-vis the area served 2 Access for residential, commercial and industrial zones etc. 68 }68 22 (Table 6) Width of access for Residential, Commercial zones 68 22 (Table 7) Width of access for industrial zones 69 23. Recreational/Amenity Open Spaces 69-71 24. Minimum widths of pathways 71 24 (Table 8) Widths of Pathways 71 25. Shopping Centres/Departmental stores 71-72 26. Electric Sub station 72 27. Additional amenities and facilities in layouts exceeding 2 ha. 73 28. Set-backs and open spaces within building plots 73 29. Open Space Requirements Side and Rear Open spaces in relation to height of the building for light and ventilation. 1. Residential and Commercial zones 2. Industrial zone 3. Provisions in marginal open spaces if the height of the building is restricted.

6 4. Provisions In Open Spaces For Plots In Reconstruction/Redevelopment Schemes Under the Maharashtra Housing and Area DEVELOPMENT authority Act 1976. 5. Front set-backs from Street Centre Line/Plot Boundary 6. Open spaces for various types of buildings 7. Provisions regarding relaxation in open spaces in narrow plots 8. Additional restrictions on construction/reconstruction 73-81 73 73-74 75 75 76 76-78 78 78-80 81 9. Interior open spaces (chowks) 10. Open spaces to be unencumbered 81 81 29 (Table 9) Provisions in open spaces for Plots in Residential and Commercial zones 75 29 (Table 10-A) Front Set-back from Street Centre/Plot Boundary 76 29(Table 10-B) Front Set-back from Street Centre Line 77 29 (Table 10-C) Set-back from zonal Boundary in Industrial zones 77-78 29(Table 11) Open space Relaxations in Narrow plots in Residential and Commercial Zones 79 29(Table 12) Open Space Relaxation in Narrow Plots in Industrial Zones.

7 80 30 Features permitted in open spaces 82-83 31 Height of Buildings 84-86 1) Height vis-a-vis road width 2) Height of buildings for hazardous goods, etc. and height of industrial chimney. 3) Additional height and other restrictions in certain areas 4) Structures not relevant height 84 84 84-86 86 31(Table 13) Building Height Restrictions in the vicinity of Aerodromes 85 32 Floor Space Indices and Tenement Density 87 32(Table 14) Floor Space Indices in Residential, Commercial and Industrial Zones. 87-92 33 Additional Floor Space Index which may be allowed in certain categories 98-132 33(Table) 1) Road widening and construction of new roads 2) Building of Educational and Medical Institutions and Institutional Buildings. 3) Buildings of Government and Semi-Government offices and public sector undertakings 4) Buildings of starred category Residential Hotels.

8 5) Low Cost Housing Schemes of MHADA 6) Reconstruction of Buildings destroyed by fire or which have collapsed or demolished buildings. 7) Reconstruction or redevelopment by Co-operative Housing Societies or of old buildings belonging to the Corporation. 8) Construction for Housing the Dishoused 9) Repairs and reconstruction of cessed buildings and Urban Renewal Scheme. 10) Rehabilitation of Slum dwellers through Owners/Developers/Co-operative Housing Societies. 11) Sites and Services, small size tenements under the Urban Land (Ceiling and regulations )Act, 1976. 12) DEVELOPMENT by MMRDA with World Bank Assistance 13) DEVELOPMENT of sites reserved for R&R of PAP s 14) Transit camp Tenements for Slum Rehabilitation Scheme 15) Redevelopment of Contravening Structures in 16) Buildings of Information Technology 17) Shifting of cattle sheds outside greater Mumbai 18) DEVELOPMENT of land earmarked for the MHADA/Mill Workers Housing under Regulation 58 19) Reconstruction/Redevelopment in gaothan area 20) Buildings of Biotechnology Establishments 24) DEVELOPMENT of Multi storied/Parking lots 25) Additional FSI to Religious building 98-99 99-103 103-104 104-106 106-112 113 113-115 115-116 117-119 119-125 125 125 126 126-127 128-129 129-130 130 130-131 131 131 132-135 135 34 Transfer of DEVELOPMENT Rights 136 35 Floor Space Index Computation 136-147 1) FSI/Built up area calculation 2)

9 Exclusions from FSI computation 3) The following shall be counted in FSI 4) Compensatory Floor Space Index (FSI) 136-138 139-144 145 146-147 36 Parking Spaces 148-154 1) General Space Requirements 2) Quantitative Requirements 3) Other Vehicles 4) Transport Vehicles 5) Where to be accommodated 6) Cinemas, Theatres, Assembly Halls 148 148-152 152 152-153 153-154 153-154 7) Common parking Spaces 154 36(Table 15) Off-Street Parking Spaces 150-152 Part III General Building Requirements 155 37 General Space requirements of various parts of building, etc. 155 37 (Table 17) Occupant load 155 38 Requirements of part of buildings 156 1) Plinth 2) Habitable rooms 3) Kitchen 4) Bathroom and Water-closet 5) Loft 6) Mezzanine Floor 7) Store-room 8) Garage 9) Basement 10) Cabin 11) Office room for co-operative housing society 12) Letter box 13) Meter room 14) Refuse chute 15) Corridor 16) Door 17) Stairway 18) Ramps 19) Lifts 20) Porch 21) Canopy 22) Balcony 23) Revas Projection 24) Roof 25) Terrace 26) Parapet 27) Boundary wall and main entrance 28) Wells 29) Overhead tanks 30) Septic tanks 31) Special Provisions 32) A fitness centre including toilet facilities 33) Special Provisions for Institutional, Assembly, Business or Mercantile and Industrial Buildings 34)

10 Podium 156 156-158 159 159-160 160 161 161 161 161-163 163 163 163 163 163 163 163 163 164 164 164-165 165 165 165-166 166 166 167 167 167 167 167 167-168 168-169 169-170 170 170-171 38(Table 18) Minimum size and width of habitable rooms 156 38(Table 19) Height of habitable room 158 38(Table 20) Minimum width of staircase/corridors 171 39 Common antenna for Television transmission reception 172 40 Requirements of Educational Buildings 172 41 Special amenities for physically handicapped person 172-174 42 Lighting and Ventilation 175 1) Adequacy and manner of provision 2) Artificial ventilation shaft 3) Artificial lighting and mechanical ventilation 4) Residential Hotel size of ventilation shaft, etc. 175 175 175 175 43 Fire Protection Requirements 175-177 1) General 2) Exits 173-177 178-179 43(Table 21) Width and number for various occupancies 179 44 Requirements of individual exists at each floor 179 1) Corridors 2) Doorways 3) Revolving doors 4) Internal staircase 5) Fire escape or external stairs 6) Ramp 7) Refuge areas 8) Fire Escape Chutes/ Controlled Lowering Device for evacuation 9) Fire Check Floor 179 180 180 180 180-1 81 181 182 182 183 45 Structural Safety and Services 183 1) Structural design 2) Quality, materials and workmanship 3) Alternative materials, method of design and construction and tests 183 183 183 46 Tests 184 1) Test methods 2) Test results to be preserved 184 184 47 Building Services 184 1) Electrical installations 2) Lifts 184 184 48 Signs and Outdoor Display Structures 184 1)