UDCPR-2020 I UUNNIIFFIIEEDD DDEEVVEELLOOPPMMEENNTT CCOONNTTRROOLL AANNDD PPRROOMMOOTTIIOONN RREEGGUULLAATTIIOONNSS FFOORR MMAAHHAARRAASSHHTTRRAA SSTTAATTEE.. UDCPR-2020 II UDCPR-2020 III Applicable to all Planning Authorities and Regional Plan areas except Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Other Planning Authorities / Special Planning Authorities / Development Authorities within the limit of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, MIDC, NAINA, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Hill Station Municipal Councils, Eco-sensitive / Eco-fragile region notified by MoEF & CC and Lonavala Municipal Council, in Maharashtra. GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT UDCPR-2020 V INDEX Regulation No. Particulars Page No.
CHAPTER – 1 ADMINISTRATION
1.0 Short Title, Extent and Commencement 1
1.1 Extent and Jurisdiction 1
1.2 Commencement of Regulations 1
1.3 Definitions 1
1.4 Applicability of Regulations 17
1.5 Saving 18
1.6 Applicability of Other Regulations 19
1.7 Power to Prescribe the Proformas 19
1.8 Power to Decide Charges 19
1.9 Meanings as in Acts, Rules & Interpretations 19
1.10 Removal of Difficulties 20
CHAPTER – 2 DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION AND COMMENCEMENT CERTIFICATE
2.1 Permission from the Planning Authority is Mandatory 21
2.1.1 Necessity of Obtaining Permission 21
2.1.2 Permission Not Necessary 21
2.1.3 Development Undertaken on Behalf of Government 22
2.1.4 Operational Constructions 22
2.1.5 Constructions Not Covered Under the Operational Constructions 23
2.1.6 Temporary Constructions 23
2.1.7 Repairs to Building 24
2.2 Procedure for Obtaining Development Permission / Building Permission / Commencement Certificate 24
2.2.1 Notice/ Application 24
2.2.2 Information Accompanying Notice / Application 24
2.2.3 Ownership Title and Area 24
2.2.4 Key Plan or Location Plan 25
2.2.5 (a) Sub-division Layout Plan 25
2.2.5 (b) Amalgamation Plan 26
2.2.6 Site Plan 26
2.2.7 Building Plan 26
2.2.8 Building Plans for Special Buildings 27
2.2.9 Service Plan 28 UDCPR-2020 VI
2.2.10 Supervision 28
2.2.11 Clearance From Other Departments 28
2.2.12 Building / Layout Permission Scrutiny Fee 29
2.2.13 Development Charges 29
2.2.14 Premium Charges and Fire Infrastructure Charges. 30
2.2.15 Structural Stability Certificate 31
2.2.16 Signing the Plan 31
2.2.17 Size of Drawing Sheets 31
2.2.18 Colouring Notations for Plans 32
2.2.19 Qualification and Competence of the Architect / Licensed Engineer / Structural Engineer / Town Planner / Supervisor 32
2.3 Discretionary Powers – Interpretation 33
2.4 Discretionary Powers - Relaxations in Specific Cases 33
2.5 Drafting Error 34
2.6 Grant or Refusal of Permission 34
2.6.1 General 34
2.6.2 Deemed Permission 34
2.6.3 Approval of building permission on Risk Based Classification 35
2.6.4 Display of Sanctioned Permissions on Authority's Web-Site. 35
2.7 Commencement of Work 35
2.7.1 Commencement 35
2.7.2 Development of Land Subdivision/ Group Housing Schemes 36
2.8 Procedure During Construction 36
2.8.1 Owner / Developer / Architect / Town Planner / Engineer / Structural Engineer / Supervisor or any licensed technical person's Responsibilities in Their Respective Domain. 36
2.8.2 Results of Test 36
2.8.3 Display Board 36
2.8.4 Plinth Checking 37
2.8.5 Deviation during Construction 37
2.9 Completion Certificate 37
2.10 Occupancy Certificate 37
2.11 Part Occupancy Certificate 38
2.12 Inspection 38
2.13 Unsafe Buildings 38
2.14 Offences and Penalties 38
2.15 Revocation of Permission 39
CHAPTER – 3 GENERAL LAND DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS
3.1 Requirements of Site 41 UDCPR-2020 VII
3.1.1 Site Not Eligible For Construction of Building 41
3.1.2 Distance of Site From Electric Lines 42
3.1.3 Construction Within Blue and Red Flood Line 42
3.1.4 Development Within 30 M. Distance From Railway Boundary 43
3.1.5 Environmental Clearance 43
3.1.6 Development Along Highways / Classified Roads 43
3.1.7 Development Within Certain Distance from the Prison Premises 43
3.1.8 Distances from Land Fill Sites 43
3.1.9 Restrictions in the Vicinity of Airport 43
3.1.10 Restrictions in the Vicinity of Ancient Monuments 44
3.1.11 Restriction under the Works of Defense Act, 1903 44
3.1.12 Distance from Natural Lake and Dam. 44
3.1.13 Authorities to Supply Complete Information about Restrictions to the Authority 45
3.2 Means of Access 45
3.3 Regulations for Land Sub-division and Layout 45
3.3.1 Obligation to Prepare Layout 45
3.3.2 Roads / Streets in Land Sub-division or Layout 46
3.3.3 Length of Internal Roads, How to be Measured 47
3.3.4 Co-ordination of Roads in Adjoining Lands 47
3.3.5 Narrow Roads in Congested Areas (Core area in case of Nashik Municipal Corporation) 47
3.3.6 Development of Street 47
3.3.7 Development of Private Street, if neglected 47
3.3.8 Access from the Highways/ Classified Roads 47
3.3.9 Access Provision for Special Buildings of Regulation No.1.3(93)(xiv) 48
3.3.10 Cul-de-sacs 48
3.3.11 Handing Over of Layout Roads 49
3.3.12 Intersection of Roads 49
3.3.13 Acute Angled Junctions 49
3.3.14 Land-locked Plot 50
3.3.15 Approach by Underpass or Over Bride for Adjoining Properties. 50
3.4 Recreational Open Spaces 50
3.4.1 Recreational Open Space 50
3.4.2 Recreational Open Space – Owner’s Undertaking 52
3.4.3 Recreational Open Space – Rearrangement 52
3.4.4 Recreational Open Space – Exclusive 52
3.4.5 Recreational Open Space in Green Belt 52
3.4.6 Minimum Dimensions 53
3.4.7 Structures Permitted in Open Space 53 UDCPR-2020 VIII
3.4.8 Recreational Open Space and Means of Access 53
3.5 Provision for Amenity Space 53
3.5.1 In the areas of Local Authorities, Special Planning Authorities and Metropolitan Region Authorities 53
3.5.2 In case of Regional Plan Areas. 55
3.5.3 Development of Amenity Spaces in Earlier Sanctioned Layout 55
3.6 Provision for Electric Sub-station 55
3.7 Minimum Plot Area for Various Uses 56
3.8 Provision for Inclusive Housing 56
3.9 Net Plot Area and Computation of FSI 59
3.10 Transfer of DP Sites (other than DP road) in lieu of FSI 60
3.11 Relocation of DP-RP Sites/ Roads 60
3.12 Amalgamation of Plots 61
3.13 Development of Cycle Track Along River and Nallah 61
3.13.1 For Nashik Municipal Corporation. 61
3.13.2 For Other Municipal Corporations. 61
CHAPTER -4 LAND USE CLASSIFICATION AND PERMISSIBLE USES
4.1 General 63
4.2 Land Use Classification and Equivalency of Zones 63
4.3 Residential Zone - R-1 65
4.4 Residential Zone - R-2 66
4.5 Low Density Residential Zone 69
4.6 Future Urbanisable Zone 69
4.7 Commercial Zone 69
4.8 Industrial Zone 69
4.8.1 Allowing Residential / Commercial Uses in Industrial Zone 70
4.9 Loom Industry cum Residential Zone. 73
4.10 Public/ Semi Public Zone 73
4.11 Agricultural Zone 74
4.12 Green Belt Zone / River Protection Belt 80
4.13 Traffic and Transportation Zone 81
4.14 Regional Park Zone. 81
4.15 Tourism Development Zone 81
4.16 Afforestation Zone 81
4.17 Hill Top -Hill Slope Zone / Hilly Area 82
4.18 Green Zone-2 82
4.19 Forest Zone 82
4.20 Defense Zone 82 UDCPR-2020 IX
4.21 Mines and Quarry Zone 82
4.22 Public Utility Zone 83
4.23 Woodland Corridor 83
4.24 Special Economic Zone. 83
4.25 Airport and Allied Activities / Service Zone. 83
4.26 Additional Uses. 83
4.27 Uses Permissible in Development Plan Reservations. 83
CHAPTER - 5 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR REGIONAL PLAN AREAS
5.0 General 87
5.1 For all Regional Plan Areas 87
5.1.1 Development Permissible Adjacent to Gaothan. 87
5.1.2 Regulations for Development of Tourist Resorts / Holiday Homes / Township in Hill Stations Type Areas under Hill Station Policy. 88
5.1.3 Committed Development 88
5.1.4 Rectification of Draftsman's Error. 88
5.1.5 Highways notified by State / Central Government. 89
5.1.6 Station Area Development. 89
5.1.7 Modification Proposals Already Sanctioned. 89
5.1.8 Provision of Amenity Space. 89
5.19 Residential Zone with Payment of Premium 90
5.2 For Thane-Raigad-Palghar Regional Plan. 90
5.2.1 Development in Tarapur-Boisar Area. 90
5.3 For Ratnagiri – Sindhudurg Regional Plan 90
5.3.1 Area within Ratnagiri District 90
5.3.2 Area within Sindhudurg District 90
5.4 For Kolhapur Regional Plan 93
5.5 For Satara Regional Plan 94
5.6 For Hingoli, Buldhana, Washim, Yawatmal, Nanded Regional Plan 95
5.7 For Raigad Regional Plan 96
5.8 For Solapur Regional Plan 96
5.9 For Pune Regional Plan 96
5.10 Certain Regulations cease to operate in future. 98
CHAPTER – 6 GENERAL BUILDING REQUIREMENTS – SETBACK, MARGINAL DISTANCE, HEIGHT AND PERMISSIBLE FSI
6.0 General 99
6.1 Regulations for Congested Area in Development Plans / Gaothan of Village Settlements in Metropolitan Region Development Authorities and Regional Plans 99 UDCPR-2020 X
6.1.1 Residential Buildings / Residential Buildings with mixed-use 99
6.1.2 Other buildings like Public / Semi-Public, Educational, Medical, Institutional, Commercial, Mercantile, etc. 102
6.2 Regulations for Outside Congested Area (Non-Congested Area). 103
6.2.1 Marginal Distances and Set-back for Residential Buildings and Mixed Use 103
6.2.2 Other Building. 105
6.2.3 Marginal Distances for Buildings of Higher Heights 110
6.2.4 In the cases of layouts of two or more buildings in a plot for any uses 110
6.2.5 In case of group housing scheme….. 111
6.2.6 Building Abutting Two or More Streets 111
6.3 Permissible FSI 111
6.4 Industrial Buildings 115
6.5 FSI of Green Belt 115
6.6 Calculation of Built-up area for the Purposes of FSI 116
6.7 Permissible Projections in Marginal Open Spaces / Distances 116
6.8 Exclusion of Structures/ Projections for FSI Calculation 117
6.9 Interior and Exterior chowk 118
6.10 Height of Building 118
6.11 Height Exemptions 119
6.12 Requirements in case of Building more than 70 M. Height 119
6.13 FSI of Lands Affected by HEMRL or Other Restrictions 119
6.14 Provision of Recreational Floor 119
CHAPTER – 7 HIGHER FSI FOR CERTAIN USES
7.0 General 121
7.1 Higher F.S.I. 122
7.2 Entitlement of FSI for Road Widening or Construction of New Roads / Surrender of Reserved Land 125
7.3 Development / Redevelopment of Staff Quarters of the State Government or its Statutory Bodies or Planning Authority 125
7.4 Development/ Redevelopment of Housing Schemes of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority 127
7.5 Protection of FSI in Redevelopment of Existing Buildings 131
7.6 Redevelopment of Old Dilapidated / Dangerous Buildings 131
7.6.1 Redevelopment of Multi-dwelling Buildings of Owner / Owners 131
7.6.2 Redevelopment of Tenanted Buildings 131
7.7 Development of Housing for EWS/ LIG 132
7.8 Regulations for Development of Information Technology Establishment 133
7.8.1 For Municipal Corporation, Area Development Authority and Special Planning Authority area. 133
7.8.2 For Municipal Council, Nagar Panchayat and Non-Municipal Town Development Plan Area 135 UDCPR-2020 XI
7.8.3 For Regional Plan Area 135
7.9 Regulation for Development of Biotechnology Parks 135
7.10 Incentive for Green Buildings 136
7.11 Development of Public Toilet 137
7.12 Buildings of Smart FinTech Centre 137
CHAPTER – 8 PARKING, LOADING AND UNLOADING SPACES
8.1 Parking Spaces 139
8.2 Off Street Parking Requirement 140
8.2.1 Off Street Parking Requirement 140
8.2.2 Off Street Parking Requirement for Various Planning Authorities / Areas. 145
CHAPTER – 9 REQUIREMENTS OF PART OF BUILDING
9.0 Standard Requirement of Various Parts of Buildings 147
9.1 Plinth 147
9.2 Habitable Rooms 147
9.3 Kitchen 148
9.4 Bath Rooms, Water Closets, Combined Bath Room and Water Closet 148
9.5 Ledge or Tand/Loft 148
9.6 Cupboard 149
9.7 Mezzanine Floor 149
9.8 Store Room 150
9.9 Garage 150
9.10 Roofs 151
9.11 Basements 151
9.12 Ramp 152
9.13 Podium 153
9.14 Balcony 153
9.15 Supported Double Height Terraces 154
9.16 Stilt 154
9.17 Chimneys 154
9.18 Letter Box 154
9.19 Meter Room 154
9.20 Lighting and Ventilation of Room 154
9.21 Overhead Tanks 155
9.22 Parapet 155
9.23 Cabin 155
9.24 Wells 155
9.25 Septic Tanks 156 UDCPR-2020 XII
9.26 Boundary / Compound Wall 156
9.27 Provision of Lift 156
9.28 Exit Requirements 157
9.29 Other Requirements of Individual Exit at Each Floor 160
9.30 Architectural Projections. 163
9.31 Additional Requirements in case of Housing Schemes 164
9.32 Fire Protection Requirement 164
9.33 Service Floor 164
CHAPTER – 10 CITY SPECIFIC REGULATIONS
10.0 General 165
10.1 Pune City Municipal Corporation. 165
10.2 Thane Municipal Corporation area. 168
10.3 Nagpur Municipal Corporation 173
10.4 Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority 173
10.5 Nashik Municipal Corporation 176
10.6 Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation 177
10.7 Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation 177
10.8 Ulhasnagar City Municipal Corporation 177
10.9 Kolhapur Municipal Corporation 178
10.10 Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation 184
10.11 National Park and Tungareshwar Eco Sensitive Zone. 190
10.12 Maharashtra Airport Development Company Notified Area. 190
10.13 Bhiwandi Surrounding Notified Area 190
10.14 CIDCO Area Excluding NAINA Area 195
10.14 A CIDCO Area within Panvel Municipal Corporation 196
10.15 Certain Regulations Cease to Operate in Future. 196
CHAPTER – 11 ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF RESEVED SITES IN DEVELOPMENTPLANS
11.0 General 197
11.1 Manner of Development of Reserved Site in Development Plan (Accommodation Reservation Principle) 197
11.2 Regulations for Grant of Transferable Development Rights 212
11.2.1 Transferable Development Rights 212
11.2.2 Cases Eligible for Transferable Development Rights (TDR) 212
11.2.3 Cases not Eligible for Transferable Development Rights (TDR) 213
11.2.4 Generation of the Transferable Development Rights (TDR) 213
11.2.5 Transferable Development Rights (TDR) against Construction of Amenity 215 UDCPR-2020 XIII
11.2.6 Utilisation of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) 215
11.2.7 Utilisation of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) and Road Width Relation 216
11.2.8 Areas Restricted from Utilisation of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) 216
11.2.9 General Stipulation 217
11.2.10 Transfer of DRC 217
11.2.11 Infrastructure Improvement Charges 218
11.2.12 Vesting of Land 218
11.2.13 Effect of this Regulation 218
11.3 Reservation Credit Certificate (RCC) 218
CHAPTER – 12 STRUCTURAL SAFETY, WATER SUPPLY, DRAINAGE AND SANITARY REQUIREMENTS, OUTDOOR DISPLAY AND OTHER SERVICES.
12.1 Structural Design 221
12.2 Quality of Materials and Workmanship 221
12.3 Alternative Materials, Methods of Design & Construction and Tests 221
12.4 Building Services 222
12.5 Water Supply, Drainage and Sanitary Requirements 222
12.6 Drainage and Sanitation Requirements 224
12.6.1 General 224
12.6.2 For Residences 224
12.6.3 For Buildings other than Residences 225
12.7 Signs and Outdoor Display Structures 225
CHAPTER – 13 SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR CERTAIN BUILDINGS
13.0 General 233
13.1 Provisions for Barrier Free Access 233
13.1.1 Definitions 233
13.1.2 Scope 233
13.1.3 Site Development 233
13.1.4 Building Requirements 234
13.2 Installation of Solar Assisted Water Heating (SWH) System/ Roof Top Photovoltaic (RTPV) System 236
13.3 Rain Water Harvesting 237
13.4 Grey Water Recycling and Reuse 238
13.5 Solid Waste Management 240
CHAPTER – 14 SPECIAL SCHEMES
14.1 Integrated Township Project(ITP) 241 UDCPR-2020 XIV
14.1.1 For Regional Plan Area 241
14.1.2 For Development Plan Area 259
14.2 Transit Oriented Development (TOD) 261
14.2.1 For Pune Municipal Corporation Area 261
14.2.2 Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority area. 261
14.2.3 For Nagpur Municipal Corporation and Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority. 261
14.2.4 For Other Municipal Corporations and Other Metropolitan Region Development Authority Area 267
14.2.5 Regulations for BRT Corridor in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. 268
14.3 Affordable Housing Scheme 268
14.4 Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana 272
14.4.1 For Development Plan Area. 272
14.4.2 For Regional Plan Area. 273
14.5 Conservation of Heritage Buildings / Precincts / Natural Features 274
14.6 Slum Rehabilitation Scheme for Pune, PCMC, PCNTDA and Nagpur. 280
14.7 Slum Rehabilitation Scheme for Other Municipal Corporations. 280
14.8 Urban Renewal Scheme 296
14.9 Development of Tourism and Hospitality Services under Community Nature Conservancy Around Wild Life Sanctuaries and National Parks. 312
14.10 Integrated Information Technology Township (IITP) 313
14.11 Integrated Logistic Park (ILP) 317
14.12 Industrial Township Under Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Policy 320
14.13 Development of Integrated Industrial Area 321
CHAPTER – 15 REGULATIONS FOR SPECIAL ACTIVITIES / PLANS
15.1 Quarrying Operations 323
15.2 Erection of Mobile Towers 324
15.3 Preparation of Local Area Plan 324
15.4 Guidelines for Street Design in City / Town. 325 APPENDICES Appendix A-1 Form for Construction of Building or Layout of Buildings / Group Housing 327 Appendix A-2 Form for Sub-Division of Land as Plotted Layout 336 Appendix B Form for Supervision 342 Appendix C Qualification, Competence, Duties and Responsibilities etc. of Licensed Technical Personnel or Architect for Development Permission and Supervision. 343 Appendix D-1 Form for Sanction of Building Permission and Commencement Certificate 350 Appendix D-2 Form for Tentative Approval for Demarcation of Land / Sub-Division Layout 351 Appendix D-3 Form for Final Approval to the Land Sub-Division / Layout 352 Appendix E-1 Form for Refusal of Building Permit/ Commencement Certificate 353 UDCPR-2020 XV Appendix E-2 Form for Refusal of Land Sub-Division/ Layout 354 Appendix F Form for Intimation of Completion of Work up to Plinth Level 355 Appendix G Form for Completion Certificate 356 Appendix H Form for Full / Part Occupancy Certificate 357 Appendix I Form for Refusal of Occupancy Certificate 358 Appendix J Form of Indemnity for Part Occupancy Certificate 359 Appendix K Approvals of Building Permission Based on Risk Based Categorization 360 Appendix K-1 Form for Permission of Construction of Building on a plot upto 150 sq.m. 363 Appendix L Heritage List Card (Town & Region) 364 Appendix M Typical Plans & Cross-section of the Road. 369 PLANS Plan - A Nallahs Identified for Cycle Track in Nashik Municipal Corporation Area. 381 UDCPR-2020 XVI UDCPR-2020 1
CHAPTER – 1 ADMINISTRATION
1.0 SHORT TITLE, EXTENT & COMMENCEMENT These regulations shall be called as “Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations for Maharashtra” (hereinafter called “These Regulations” or "Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations" - UDCPR )
1.1 Extent and Jurisdiction i) These regulations shall apply to the building activities and development works on lands within the jurisdiction of all Planning Authorities and Regional Plan areas except Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, other Planning Authorities / Special Planning Authorities / Development Authorities within the limit of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, MIDC, NAINA, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Hill Station Municipal Councils, Ecosensitive / Eco-fragile region notified by MoEF & CC, and Lonavala Municipal Council in Maharashtra. ii) These Regulations shall also be applicable to the Town Planning Scheme area. However this will not bar the Development Permission to be granted as per the Regulations of the Town Planning Scheme in toto.
1.2 Commencement of Regulations These regulations shall come into force with effect from the date of publication of notification in the official Gazette. All the Development Control Regulations / special Regulations which are in operation shall cease to operate.
1.3 DEFINITIONS In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions given hereunder, shall have meaning indicated against each of them. Words and expressions which are not defined in these Regulations, shall have the same meaning or sense as in the :- i) Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966; ii) Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949; iii) Nagpur Improvement Trust Act, 1936; iv) Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965; v) Maharashtra Metropolitan Region Development Authority Act, 2016; vi) Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966; vii) Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016; viii) National Building Code of India, 2016; ix) Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976; x) Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance And Redevelopment) Act, 1971.
1. Act – means the Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act, 1966 as may be amended from time to time. UDCPR-2020 2
2. Addition / Alteration– means any change in existing authorized building or change from one occupancy to another, or a structural change, such as an addition to the area or height, or the removal of part of a building, or any change to the structure, such as the construction of, cutting into or removal of any wall, partition, column, beam, joist, floor, roof or other support or a change to or closing of any required means of ingress or egress or a change to the fixtures of equipment as provided under these regulations. However, modification in regards to gardening, white washing, painting, plastering, pointing, paving and retiling shall not be deemed to be alteration.
3. Advertising Sign– means any surface or structure with characters, letters or illustrations applied thereto and displayed outdoor in any manner whatsoever for purposes of advertising or to give information regarding or to attract the public to any place for public performance, article or merchandise whatsoever, or is attached to, or forms a part of building, or is connected with any building or is fixed to a tree or to the ground or to any pole, screen, fence or hoarding or displayed in space, or in or over any water body.
4. Air-conditioning – means the process of treating air so as to control simultaneously its temperature, humidity, cleanliness and distribution to meet the requirement of conditioned space.
5. Accessory Building – means a building separate from the main building on a plot and containing one or more rooms for accessory use such as servant quarters, garage, store rooms etc.
6. Accessory / Ancillary Use – means any use of the premises subordinate to the principal use and incidental to the principal use.
7. Amenity Space - for the purpose of these regulations, amenity space means a statutory space kept in any layout to be used for any of the amenity such as open spaces, parks recreational grounds, playgrounds, sports complex, gardens, convenience shopping, parking lots, primary and secondary schools, nursery, health club, Dispensary, Nursing Home, Hospital, sub post-office, police station, electric substation, ATM of banks, electronic cyber library, open market, garbage bin, assisted living and hospice together, senior citizen housing and orphanage together, project affected persons' housing, auditorium, conventional centre, water supply, electricity supply and includes other utilities, services and conveniences.
8. Annual Statements of Rates – means the Annual Statements of Rates (ASR) published by the Inspector General of Registration, Maharashtra State, Pune.
9. Architectural projection –means a chajja, cornice etc. which is a protrusion from the building facade or line of the building only for aesthetic purpose and not used for any habitable purpose.
10. Access – means a clear approach to a plot or a building.
11. Architect - An Architect who is a member of the Indian Institute of Architects and duly registered with the Council of Architecture under the Architects Act, 1972.
12. Apartment - means whether called block, chamber, dwelling unit, flat, office, showroom, shop, godown, premises, suit, tenement, unit or by any other name, means a separate and self-contained part of any immovable property, including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces, located on one or more floors or any part thereof, in a building or on a plot of land, used or intended to be used for any residential or commercial use such as residence, office, shop, showroom or godown or for carrying on any business, occupation, profession or trade, or for any other type of use ancillary to the purpose specified. UDCPR-2020 3
13. Applicant–means any person who is an owner or a person having an irrevocable registered Power of Attorney of an owner and any other document as acceptable to the Authority.
14. Authority – means : i) in the case of a Municipal Corporation, the Municipal Commissioner or such other officer as he may appoint in this behalf; ii) in the case of a Zilla Parishad, the Chief Executive Officer or such other officers as he may appoint in this behalf; iii) in the case of a Municipal Council, the Chief Officer of the Council; and iv) in the case of any other local authority, Special Planning Authority, New Town Development Authority or Area Development Authority, the Chief Executive Officer or person exercising such powers under Acts applicable to such authorities; v) in the area of a Regional Plan, the Collector of the District; vi) in case of Development Authorities established under the Metropolitan Region Development Authorities Act, Metropolitan Commissioner or such other officer as he may appoint in this behalf; vii) in case the land is situated in the gaothan, within the meaning of clause (10) of section 2 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, the village Panchayat concerned.
15. Atrium – means a sky lighted and naturally/mechanically ventilated area in a building, with no intermediate floors and used as circulation space or entrance foyer.
16. Balcony – means a horizontal cantilever projection, including parapet, handrail or balustrade to serve as a passage or sitting out place with at least one side open, except for the railing or parapet wall for safety. UDCPR-2020 4 Also, non-cantilever balcony shown in the illustration below shall be treated as balcony.
17. Basic FSI – means floor Space Index permissible without levy of premium or loading of TDR on any parcel of land as per the provisions of these regulations.
18. Basement/Cellar – means the lower storey of a building below or partly below the ground level with one or more than one levels.
19. Biotechnology Unit / Park – means a Unit or a Park which is certified as such by the Development Commissioner (Industries).
20. Building – means any structure for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof whether used as human habitation or not and includes foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, wells, door steps, fencing, plumbing and building services, fixed - platforms, varandahs, balcony; cornice or projection, part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall fence enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space and signs and outdoor display structures. However, tents, shamiyanas and the tarpaulin shelters erected for temporary and ceremonial occasions with the permission of the Authority shall not be considered as building.
21. Built up Area – means the area covered by a building on all floors including cantilevered portion, mezzanine floors, if any, but excluding the areas specifically exempted from computation of Floor Space Index (F.S.I.) under these Regulations.
22. Building Line – means the line up to which the plinth of a building adjoining a street or an extension of a street or on a future street may lawfully extend. It includes the lines prescribed, if any, in any scheme and / or development plan / Regional Plan, or under any other law in force.
23. Building Height – means the vertical distance measured in the case of flat roofs, from the average level of the ground around and contiguous to the building or as decided by the Authority to the terrace of last floor of the building adjacent to the external walls; to the highest point of the building and in the case of pitched roofs, up to the point where the external surface of the outer wall intersects the finished surface of the sloping roof; and in the case of gable facing road, the mid-point between the eaves level and the ridge. Architectural features serving no other function except that of decoration, terrace water tank, staircase roof and parapet wall shall be excluded for UDCPR-2020 5 the purpose of measuring heights.
24. Cabin – means a non-residential enclosure constructed of non-load bearing, non-masonry partitions.
25. Carpet area – means the net usable floor area of an apartment, excluding the area covered by the external walls, areas under services shafts, exclusive balcony or veranda area and exclusive open terrace area, but includes the area covered by the internal partition walls of the apartment.
Explanation (1) -The expression "exclusive balcony or veranda area" means the area of the balcony or veranda, as the case may be, which is appurtenant to the net usable floor area of an apartment, meant for the exclusive use of the allottee; and "exclusive open terrace area" means the area of open terrace which is appurtenant to the net usable floor area of an apartment, meant for the exclusive use of the allottee.
Explanation (2) - If in any regulation of these regulations, carpet area is defined different than what is mentioned here, then carpet area as mentioned in that regulation, shall be applicable
26. Chajja – means a sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on external walls to provide protection from sun and rain and for purpose of architectural appearance.
27. Chief Fire Officer – means a Chief Fire Officer as specified in the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006 and Rules there under as amended from time to time.
28. Chimney – means an upright shaft containing one or more flues provided for the conveyance to the outer air of any product of combustion resulting from the operation of heat producing appliance or equipment employing solid, liquid or gaseous fuel.
29. Cluster – means any area of land so defined, under these regulations.
30. Combustible Material – means a material which when burnt adds heat to a fire when tested for combustibility in accordance with IS 3808-1979: Method of test for non-combustibility of building materials (first revision) given in the National Building Code.
31. Congested Area – In case of Regional Plan area, a land included within the gaothan as determined under Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, and in case of other areas as specifically earmarked in the Development Plan/ Planning Proposal. (In case of Nashik Municipal Corporation, congested area is referred to as Core area).
32. Control Line – means a line on either side of a highway or part of highway beyond the building line fixed in respect of such highway by the Highway Authority from time to time.
33. Courtyard or Chowk – means a space permanently open to sky enclosed on sides fully or partially by buildings and may be at ground level or any other level within or adjacent to a building.
34. Canopy – means a cantilevered projection over any entrance to a building. UDCPR-2020 6
35. Convenience Shops – means shops for day-to-day domestic needs, as distinguished from wholesale trade or departmental store.
36. Corridor – means a common passage or circulation space including a common entrance space.
37. Curb Cut – means a small solid (usually concrete) ramp that slopes down from the top surface of a sidewalk or footpath to the surface of an adjoining street. It is designated for ease of access for pedestrians, bicyclists and differently abled people.
38. Detached Building – means a building whose walls and roofs are independent of any other building with marginal distances on all sides as may be specified.
39. Development – Development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of buildings, engineering, mining or other operations in or over, or under land or the making of any material change, in any building or land or in the use of any building or land or any material or structural change in any Heritage building or its precinct and includes demolition of any existing building, structure or erection of part of such building, structure or erection and reclamation, redevelopment and layout or sub-division of any land and to develop shall be construed accordingly.
40. Development Rights – means right to carryout development or to develop the land or building or both and shall include the transferable development right in the form of right to utilize the floor space index of land utilizable either on the reminder of the land partially reserved for public purpose or elsewhere as the development control& promotion regulations in this behalf provide.
41. Dharmashala – means a building used as a place of religious assembly, rest house, a place in which charity is exercised with religious or social motives, or a place where in a certain section of people have a right of residence or are granted residence without payment or on nominal payment.
42. Development Plan – means a plan for the development or re-development of the area within the jurisdiction of a Planning Authority and includes revision of a Development Plan and Planning Proposals of a Special Planning Authority for development of land within its jurisdiction. UDCPR-2020 7
43. Drain – means a system or a line of pipes, with their fittings and accessories, such as manholes, inspection chambers, traps, gullies, floor traps used for the drainage of building, or number of building or land appurtenant to the buildings within the same cartilage. A drain shall also include open channel for conveying surface water or a system for the removal of any liquid.
44. Dwelling Unit / Tenement – means an independent housing unit with separate facilities for living, cooking and sanitary requirements.
45. Eating House – means any premises where any kind of food is prepared or supplied for consumption by public for a profit or gain of any person owning or having an interest in or managing such premises.
46. Enclosed Stair case – means a stair case separated by fire resistant walls and door(s) from the rest of the building.
47. Energy Efficient Building – means a building compliant with the provisions of Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC).
48. Existing Building or use – means a building, structure or premises or its use existing on ground.
49. Exit – means a passage, channel or means of egress from any building, storeys or floor area to a street or other open space of safety. i) “Horizontal Exit” means a protected opening through or around a firewall or a bridge connecting two or more buildings; ii) “Outside Exit” means an exit from a building to a public way, or to an open area leading to a public way, or to an enclosed fire resistant passage leading to a public way; iii) “Vertical Exit” means an exit used for ascension or dissension between two or more levels including stairways, smoke-proof towers, ramps, escalators and fire escapes;
50. External Wall – means an outer wall of a building not being a party wall even though adjoining to a wall of another building and also means a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building.
51. Escalator – means a power-driven, inclined, continuous stairway used for ascending or descending between floors or bridge over a road/ railway line.
52. Escape Route – means any well-ventilated corridor, staircase or other circulation space, or any combination of the same, by means of which a safe place in the open air at ground level can be reached.
53. Fire and/ or Emergency Alarm System – means an arrangement of call points or detectors, sounders and other equipment's for the transmission and indication of alarm signals, for testing of circuits and, whenever required, for the operation of auxiliary services. This device may be workable automatically or manually to alert the occupants in the event of fire or other emergency.
54. Fire Lift – means a special lift designed for a use of fire service personnel in the event of fire or other emergency.
55. Fire Proof Door – means a door or shutter fitted to a wall opening made of fire resistant material to prevent the transmission and spread of heat, smoke and fire for a specified period.
56. Fire Pump – means a machine driven by external power of transmitting energy to fluids by coupling the pump to a suitable engine or motor, which may have varying outputs/capacity but shall be capable of having a pressure of 3.2 kg/cm2 at the topmost level of a multi-storied or high UDCPR-2020 8 rise building.
57. Fire Resistance – means the time during which a material fulfils its function of contributing to the fire safety of a building when subjected to prescribed conditions of heat and load or restraint. The fire resistance test of structures shall be done in accordance with "IS 3809 (1979): Fire resistance test for structures"
58. Fire Resisting Material – means a material which has certain degree of fire resistance.
59. Fire Separation – means the distance in meters measured from any other building on the site, or from other site, or from the opposite side of a street or other public space to the building.
60. Fire Service Inlet – means a connection provided at the base of a building for pumping up water through in-built fire-fighting arrangements by fire service pumps in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief Fire Officer.
61. Fire Tower – means an enclosed staircase which can only be approached from the various floors through landings or lobbies separated from both, the floor areas and the staircase by fire resisting doors and open to the outer air.
62. Floor – means the lower surface in a storey on which one normally walks in a building. The general term floor, unless otherwise specifically mentioned, shall not refer to a mezzanine floor.
Note - The sequential numbering of floors shall be determined by its relation to the determining entrance level. For floor at or above ground level, with direct entrance from / to road or street shall be termed as ground floor. The other floors above ground floor shall be numbered in sequence as Floor 1, Floor 2, etc., with the number increasing upwards. The stilt shall be termed as stilt floor or Stilt floor 1, Stilt floor 2 etc. and floors above shall be numbered as Floor 1, Floor 2, etc.
63. Floor space index (F. S. I) – means the quotient obtained by dividing the area covered by P line as mentioned in Regulation No. 6.6 by the net area of the plot. F.S.I. = Area covered by P line as mentioned in Regulation No. 6.6on all floors /Net Plot area “Premium FSI” means the FSI that may be available on payment of premium as may be prescribed under these regulations.
64. Footing – means a foundation unit constructed in brick work, masonry or concrete, steel or any other material permissible as per IS Code under the base of a wall or column for the purpose of distributing the load over a large area.
66. Foundation – means that part of the structure which is in direct contact with transmitting loads to the ground.
66. Front Open Space/Margin / Setback – means the distance between the boundary line of plot abutting the means of access/ road/ street and the building line. In case of plots facing two or more means of accesses / roads / streets, the plot shall be deemed to front on all such means of accesses / roads / streets.
67. Gallery – means an intermediate floor or platform projecting from a wall of an auditorium of a hall providing extra floor area, additional seating accommodation etc. These shall also include the structures provided for seating in stadia.
68. Garage -A) Private Garage – means a building or portion thereof having a roof and walls on three sides, designed and used for parking of privately owned motor driven or other vehicles UDCPR-2020 9 within a project. A private garage is not operated for gain and not designed or used for repairing, servicing, hiring, selling etc. of such vehicles. It does not include an unenclosed or uncovered parking space such as open parking areas. B) Public Garage – means a building or portion thereof designed as a garage operated for gain, and used for repairing, servicing, hiring, selling or storing or parking of motor driven or other vehicles.
69. Grey Water – means waste water from kitchen sink, bathrooms, tubs, showers, wash basins, washing machines and dish washers excluding the waste water from water closets (W.C.).
70. Group Housing Scheme – means a building or a group of buildings constructed or to be constructed with one or more floors, consisting of more than one dwelling units and having common service facilities. Common service facilities means facilities like stair case, balcony, corridor and varandahs, lift, etc.
71. Ground Level –means the average level of the ground in a plot.
72. Habitable Room – means a room constructed or intended for human habitation and uses incidental thereto, including kitchen if used as a living room but excluding a bathroom, water closet compartment, laundry, serving and storing pantry, corridor, cellar, attic and spaces not frequently used.
73. Hazardous Material means - i) Radioactive substances; ii) Material which is highly combustible or explosive and/or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosive emanations or storage, handling, processing or manufacturing of which may involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis or acids or other liquids; iii) Other liquids or chemicals producing flame, explosives, poisonous irritant or corrosive gases or which may produce explosive mixtures of dust or fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition.
74. High-rise Building – means a building having a height of 24 m. or more above the average surrounding ground level. Excluding chimneys, cooling towers, boiler, rooms / lift machine rooms, cold storage and other non-working areas in case of industrial buildings, and water tanks, and architectural features in respect of other buildings.
75. Home Occupation – means customary home occupation other than the conduct of an eating or a drinking place offering services to the general public, customarily carried out by a member of the family residing on the premises without employing hired labour, and for which there is no display to indicate from the exterior of the building that it is being utilised in whole or in part for any purpose other than a residential or dwelling use, and in connection with which no article or service is sold or exhibited for sale except that which is produced therein, which shall be non-hazardous and not affecting the safety of the inhabitants of the building and the neighbourhood, and provided that no mechanical equipment is used except that as is customarily used for purely domestic or household purposes and/or employing licensable goods. Home Occupation may also include such similar occupations as may be specified by the Authority.
76. Layout Open Space / Recreational Open Space – means a statutory common open space kept in any layout, sub-division or group housing scheme or campus planning exclusive of margins and approaches. UDCPR-2020 10
77. Ledge or Tand – means a shelf like projection, supported in any manner whatsoever, except by vertical supports within a room.
78. Licensed Engineer / Structural Engineer / Supervisor – means a qualified Engineer / Structural Engineer / Town Planner / Supervisor licensed by the Authority.
79. Lift – means an appliance designed to transport persons or materials between two or more levels in vertical or substantially vertical directions, by means of a guided car platform.
80. Lift Lobby – means a space from which people directly enter lift car(s) and in to which people directly enter upon exiting lift car(s).
81. Lift Machine – means part of the lift equipment comprising the motor(s) and the control gear there with, reduction gear (if any), brakes and winding drum or sheave, by which the lift car is raised or lowered.
82. Lift Well – means unobstructed space within an enclosure provided for the vertical movement of the lift car(s) and any counter weights, including the lift pit and the space for top clearance.
83. Loft – means an intermediate floor between two floors which is constructed for storage purpose and as defined in these regulations.
84. Mall – means a large enclosed area comprising of shopping, entertainment and eating facilities and facilities incidental thereto.
85. Side and Rear Marginal Open Space / Marginal Distance – means a minimum distance required to be left open to sky between the boundary of the building plot and the building line on respective sides.
86. Masonry – means an assemblage of masonry units properly bound together with mortar.
87. Mezzanine floor – means an intermediate floor between two floors of any story, forming an integral part of floor below, overhanging or overlooking a floor beneath, not being a loft between the floor and ceiling of any storey.
88. Means of Access – means the road/ street/ vehicular access way, pathway upto the plot and to the building within a plot.
89. Multiplex/Multiplex Theatre Complex (MTC) – means a place of public entertainment for the purpose of exhibition of motion pictures with multiple screens and/or dramas and other social or cultural programmes as described in Maharashtra Entertainment Duty Act, 1923. UDCPR-2020 11
90. Net Plot Area – means area of the plot as defined in these regulations.
91. Non-conforming User – means any lawful use/building existed on the site but which does not conform to the zoning shown on the Development Plan/Planning Proposal/Regional Plan in force.
92. Noise Barrier – means an exterior structure/part of structure designed to protect inhabitants of sensitive land use areas from noise pollution.
93. Occupancy or Use Group – means the principal occupancy or use for which a building or a part of a building is used, or intended to be used. Occupancy shall be deemed to include subsidiary occupancies which are contingent upon principal occupancy or use. Buildings with mixed occupancies are those in which, more than one, occupancy is present in different portions of the building. The occupancy classification shall have the meaning given in this regulation, unless otherwise spelt out in any plan under the Act. i) Residential Building means any building in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes with or without cooking or dining or both facilities. It includes one or two or multi-family dwellings, lodging or rooming houses, residential hotels, hostels, dormitories, Dharmashala, apartment houses, flats, service apartments, studio apartments and private garages incidental thereto; ii) Educational Building means a building exclusively used for a school or college recognized by the appropriate Board or University, or any other competent authority involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation incidental to educational use, and including a building for such other uses incidental thereto such as library, multi-purpose hall, auditorium or a research institution. It shall also include quarters for essential staff required to reside on the premises and a building used as a hostel attached or independent to an educational institution whether situated on or off its campus and also includes buildings used for daycare purposes for more than 8 hours per week; iii) Institutional Building means a building constructed or used for research in education, health and other activities, for medical or other treatment, hostel for working women/ persons/ students but not for lodging, an auditorium or complex for cultural and allied activities or for an hospice, care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness, handicap, disease or infirmity, care of orphans, abandoned women, children and infants, convalescents, destitute or aged persons and for penal or correctional detention with restricted liberty of the inmates ordinarily providing sleeping accommodation, and includes hospitals, sanatoria, custodial and penal institutions such as jails, prisons, mental hospitals, houses for correctional detention and reformatories; iv) Assembly Building means any building or part of a building where groups of people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation or social, religious, patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes, e.g. theatres, motion picture houses, drive-in-theatres, multiplexes, assembly halls, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, mangalkaryalayas, cultural centres, skating rinks, places of worship, dance theatres, clubs & gymkhanas, malls, passenger stations and terminals of air, surface and other public transportation services, recreation piers and stadia; v) Business Building means any building or part thereof which is used for transaction of business for the keeping of accounts and records for similar purposes; offices, banks, professional establishments, I.T. establishments, call centres, offices for private entrepreneurs etc. shall be classified in this group in so far as principal function of these is transaction of public UDCPR-2020 12 business and the keeping of books and records; vi) Office Building / Premises means the premises whose sole or principal use is to be used as an office or for office purpose; “office purposes” shall include the purpose of administration, clerical work, handling money, telephone/telegraph/ computer operations; and ‘clerical work’ shall include writing, book-keeping, sorting papers, typing, filing, duplicating, drawing of matter for publication and the editorial preparation of matter for publication and such other activities; vii) Mercantile (Commercial) Building means any building or part of a building which is used as shops, stores, market, malls for display and sale of merchandise, either wholesale or retail, including office, storage and service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandise and located in the same building; viii) Public/ Semi-public Building means a building used or intended to be used, either ordinarily or occasionally by the public such as (a) offices of State or Central Government, any public sector undertaking or statutory or local Authority or Semi Government Organization (b) a place for public worship, etc.; ix) Wholesale Establishment means an establishment, wholly or partly engaged in wholesale trade, manufacturers’ wholesale outlets including related storage facilities, A.P.M.C. establishments, warehouses and establishments engaged in truck transport including truck transport booking agencies; x) Industrial Buildings means any building or part of a building or structure, in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed like assembling plants, laboratories, power plants, smoke houses, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies, factories etc.; xi) Storage Buildings means any building or part of a building used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or merchandise, like warehouses, cold storages, freight depots, transit sheds, godowns, store houses, public garages, hangars, truck terminals, grain elevators, barns and stables; xii) Hazardous Building means any building or part of a building which is used for the storage, handling, manufacture or processing of radioactive, highly combustible or explosive materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and / or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosive emanations during storage, handling, manufacturing or processing, which involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis, acids or other liquids or chemicals producing flames, fumes and explosive mixtures of dust or which result in the division of matter into fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition; xiii) Information Technology Building / Establishment (ITE) means an establishment which is in the business of developing either software or hardware relating to computers or computer technology as approved by Director of Industries. xiv) Special Building means- i)any multi-storeyed building which is more than 24 m. in height measured from ground level, or ii) buildings for educational, assembly, mercantile, institutional, industrial, storage and hazardous occupancies having built-up area 500 sq.m. or more on any floor irrespective of height of such building , or UDCPR-2020 13 iii) any building with mixed occupancies with any of the aforesaid occupancies in (ii) above with built-up area 500sq.m.or more on any floor irrespective of height of such building. xv) Yatri Niwas means a building used for accommodation of tourist, traveller etc.
94. Owner – means a person who has legal title to land or building and includes any person for the time being receiving or entitled to receive, whether on his own account or as agent, trustee, guardian, manager or receiver for another person or for any religious or charitable purposes the rents or profits of the property in connection with which it is used;
95. Parapet – means low wall or railing built along the edge of a roof, terraces, balcony, varandah etc.
96. Parking Space – means an enclosed or unenclosed, covered or open area or area provided by mechanical means sufficient in size to park vehicle. Parking spaces shall be served by a driveway connecting them with a street or alley and permitting ingress or egress of vehicles.
97. Partition–means an interior non-load-bearing barrier, one storey or part-storey in height.
98. Permit / Permission – means permission or authorization in writing by the Authority to carry out the work regulated by these regulations.
99. Plinth – means the portion of a structure between the surface of the surrounding ground and surface of the floor immediately above the ground.
100. Plot / Site – means a parcel or piece of land enclosed by definite boundaries. UDCPR-2020 14
101. Pandals / Shamiyanas – means a temporary structure with roof or walls made of canvas, cloth other like material which is not adopted for permanent or continuous occupancy.
102. Porch – means a covered surface supported on pillars or otherwise, for the purpose of pedestrian or vehicular approach to an entrance in a building.
103. Podium – means a floor of a building extending beyond building line/s and used for parking, recreational open space, recreation, fire and building services/ utilities and incidental purposes, as specified in these regulations.
104. Reconstruction – means a reconstruction in whole or part of a building which has ceased to exist due to an accidental fire, natural collapse or demolition after having been declared unsafe by the Authority, or which is likely to be demolished by or under the order of the Authority/ Other Competent Municipal Officer.
105. Refuge Area – means an unenclosed space in a multi-storied building specifically provided to serve as fire-proof space to gather easily for evacuation of the occupants. UDCPR-2020 15
106. Refuse Chute – means a vertical pipe system passing from floor to floor provided with ventilation and inlet openings for receiving refuge from successive flats and ending at ground floor on top of the collecting chamber.
107. Road / Street – means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway, passageway, carriageway, footway, square place or bridge, tunnel, underpass, elevated road, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a specified period, whether existing or proposed in any scheme, and includes all bunds, channels, ditches, storm-water drains, culverts, sidewalks, traffic islands, roadside trees, hedges, retaining walls, fences, barriers and railings within the street lines.
108. Road / Street Line – means the line defining the side limit of a road / street.
109. Road width or Width of road/street – means the whole extent of space within the boundaries of a road when applied to a new road/street, as laid down in the city survey or development plan or prescribed road lines by any act or law and measured at right angles to the course or intended course or direction of such road.
110. Room Height – means the vertical distance measured from the finished floor surface to the finished slab surface of a room. In case of pitched roofs, the room height shall be the average height between bottom of the eaves and bottom of the ridge from the finished floor surface.
111. Roof Top Photovoltaic (RTPV) System – means any of the two Photovoltaic Systems installed on the roof of any building, i.e. (i) RTPV System with storage facility using battery, and (ii) Grid Connected RTPV System.
112. Row Housing – means a row of houses with only front and rear open spaces except end houses which shall be with side open spaces.
113. Semi Detached Building – means a building detached on three sides with marginal distances as specified and on the fourth side attached to a building in an adjoining plot.
114. Service Apartment – means premises other than a lodge or hotel, in which furnished rooms or a suite of rooms are let out on short/long term basis.
115. Service Floor – means a non-habitable floor with a height not more than 1.8m. from floor level to soffit of beam, generally provided in special buildings, wherever required, wherefrom services like water supply, sewage disposal system, electricity etc. are co-coordinated/ maintained.
116. Service Road – means a local road on a continuous alignment that normally runs adjacent and parallel to main roads like National or State Highways and provides access to properties bordering it. UDCPR-2020 16
117. Site corner – means the side at the junctions of and fronting on two or more intersecting streets.
118. Site, Depth of Site – means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear side boundaries.
119. Solar Assisted Water Heating (SWH) System – means a device to heat water using solar energy as heat source.
120. Double Frontage – means a site, having a frontage on two streets other than a corner plot.
121. Site, Interior or Tandem – means a site, access to which is by a passage from a street whether such passage forms part of the site or not.
122. Smoke Stop Door – means a door for preventing or checking the spread of smoke from one area to another.
123. Stair Cover/Staircase Room – means a structure with a covering roof over a staircase and its landing built to enclose only the stair and its landings for the purpose of providing protection from weather which should not be used for human habitation.
124. Stall – means a small shop, floor area of which does not exceed 5.0 sq.m.
125. Storage – means a place where goods are stored.
126. Store Room – means a room used as storage space.
127. Storey – means the portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it.
128. Stilts or Stilt Floor – means the portion of a building above ground level consisting of structural columns supporting the super-structure with at least two sides open and without any enclosures and used for the purpose of parking vehicles like cars, scooters, cycles, etc. and other services as may be permitted under these Regulations.
129. Sub-station (Electric) – means a station for transforming or converting electricity for the transmission or distribution thereof and includes transformers, converters, switchgears, capacitors, synchronous condensers, structures, cables and other appurtenant equipment and any buildings used for that purpose and the site thereof.
130. Supported Double Height Terraces – means open terraces, unenclosed on at-least one side with railing and lying wholly within building line with supports underneath and having minimum height of two floors.
131. Tenement – means an independent dwelling unit with a kitchen or cooking alcove.
132. Terrace – means an open-to-sky flat roof of a building or part of a building, provided with a parapet for safety and with or without any cantilevered portion.
133. Theatre – means a place of public entertainment for the purposes of exhibition of motion picture and/or dramas and other social or cultural programs
134. Travel Distance – means the distance from the remotest point on a floor of a building to a place of safety, be it a vertical exit, horizontal exit or an outside exit measured along the line of travel. UDCPR-2020 17
135. Tower like structure – means a structure in which the height of the tower like portion is at least twice the width of the broader base.
136. Unsafe Building – means buildings which are structurally unsafe, unsanitary or not provided with adequate means of ingress or egress which constitute a fire hazard or are otherwise dangerous to human life or which in relation to existing use constitute a hazard to safety or health or public welfare, by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation or abandonment.
137. Varandah – means a covered area with at least one side open to the outside with the exception of 1 m. high parapet on the upper floors to be provided on the open side.
138. Water Closet (WC) – means a privy with arrangement for flushing the pan with water. It does not include a bathroom.
139. Water Course – means a natural channel meant for carrying storm water and includes an artificial one formed by training or diversion of a natural channel; i) “Major Water Course” means a river. ii) “Minor Water Course” means a nallah.
140. Window – means an opening to the outside other than the door which provides all or part of the required natural light, ventilation or both, to the interior space.
141. Wing of a Building – means a part of a building with independent access, staircase and lift connected to other parts with common basement/ stilt/ podium/ terrace/ common wall and connecting passages.
1.4 APPLICABILITY OF REGULATIONS i) Development and Construction: Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, these regulations shall apply to all development, redevelopment, erection and/ or re-erection of a building, change of user etc. as well as to the design, construction or reconstruction, additions and alterations to a building. ii) Part Construction: Where the whole or part of a building is demolished or altered or reconstructed or removed, except where otherwise specifically stipulated, these Regulations apply only to the extent of the work involved. iii) Change of Occupancy/ Use: Where the occupancy or the user of a building is changed, except where otherwise specifically stipulated, these regulations shall apply to all parts of the building affected by the change. UDCPR-2020 18 iv) Reconstruction: The reconstruction in whole or part of a building which has ceased to exist due to an accidental fire, natural collapse or demolition, having been declared unsafe, or which is likely to be demolished by or under an order of the Authority and for which the necessary certificate has been given by the Authority shall be allowed subject to the provisions in these regulations. v) Development of sites or/and subdivision or amalgamation of land: Where land is to be developed, subdivided, or two or more plots are to be amalgamated, or a lay-out is to be prepared; these Regulations shall apply to the entire area under development, sub-division, amalgamation and layout. Provided that, where a developed land, an existing lay-out / subdivision plan is being altered, these Regulations shall apply only to that part which is being altered. vi) Revised permission: Any development permission granted earlier may be revised provided that, third party interest established in pursuance of such permissions, if any, are not adversely affected. In such case, consent of the adversely affected persons shall be necessary, if required under RERA. While granting the revised permission, the approved plans and commencement certificate of the earlier permission with office, shall be stamped as ‘SUPERSEDED’ by the Authority. vii) Exclusions: Nothing in these regulations shall require the removal, alteration or abandonment or prevent the continuance of the lawfully established use or occupancy of an existing building or its use, unless in the opinion of the Authority, such a building is unsafe or constitutes a hazard to the safety of adjacent property.
1.5 SAVINGS Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, any development permission granted or any development proposal for which any action is taken under the erstwhile regulations shall be valid and continue to be so valid, unless otherwise specified in these regulations.
Provided that, the words 'action taken' in this regulation shall also include the issuance of letter for payment of Development and other Charges issued after approval of the proposal in principle.
Provided further that if any development permission has been issued before the date of coming into force of these regulations and if work is not commenced within validity period and such permission is not renewed, then the said development permission shall be deemed to have been lapsed.
Provided further that, it shall be permissible for the owner to - a) Either continue to develop the project as approved under the erstwhile regulations in toto; and for that limited purpose erstwhile regulation shall remain in force, or b) Apply for grant of revised permission under the new regulations, if the project is on-going and the occupation certificate has not been granted fully. In such cases, charges/ premium etc. paid earlier shall be adjusted against the revised charges/ premium under these regulations. c) In case the development is started with due permission before these regulations have come into force, and if the owner/developer, at his option, thereafter seeks further development of plot/layout/buildings as per these regulations, then the provision of these regulations shall apply to the balance development. The development potential of such entire plot shall be computed as per these regulations from which the sanctioned FSI of buildings/part of buildings which are proposed to be retained as per approved plan shall be deducted to arrive UDCPR-2020 19 at the balance development potential of such plot. d) The existing marginal distances including front margin may be allowed for higher floor / floors subject to step margin as per these regulations. e) For the on-going buildings for which passages, stairs, lifts, lift rooms etc. are allowed as free of FSI by charging premium, in such cases these free of FSI items are allowed to that extent only and for the remaining balance potential, provisions for free of FSI items of these regulations shall be applicable. f) For the on-going buildings for which balconies are allowed to be enclosed as free of FSI by charging premium, these free of FSI items are allowed to that extent only and for the remaining balance potential balcony shall only be allowed as mentioned in these regulations. g) For the cases where occupation certificate is fully granted, revised permission as per these regulations, may be granted subject to provisions of Real Estate (Regulations and Development) Act, 2016, as may be applicable. h) If the project proponent applies for occupation with minor amendment in plans approved prior to this UDCPR, then amendment to the extent of 5% built-up area / dimensions per floor within the permissible FSI as per then regulations may be considered. The State Government will issue guidelines for implementation about a) to h) above separately.
1.5 (i) Megacity Project approved under regulation no.15.4.3 of Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Plan shall remain valid till completion of the said project as per said regulation.
1.6 APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REGULATIONS i) CRZ Regulations - Any development within CRZ areas shall be governed by the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification No. S.O.19(E) dt. 6th January, 2011and No. G.S.R. 37(E), dated 18th January, 2019 as amended or replaced from time to time, wherever applicable. ii) Restriction in Western Ghat Eco Sensitive Area - The restrictions in the Western Ghat Eco Sensitive Area imposed by the notification issued from time to time by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, shall be followed. ii) Other Regulations - Any other Restrictions imposed under the relevant regulations/ Rules / Acts shall also be applicable, wherever applicable.
1.7 POWER TO PRESCRIBE THE PROFORMAS The Authority, with the approval of Government, shall have the powers to prescribe proformas/ appendices and/ or make amendments in the contents of such proformas/appendices A to M attached with these regulations.
1.8 POWER TO DECIDE CHARGES The charges mentioned in these regulations for additional FSI, premium FSI, rate of interest or for any other matter shall be subject to amendment by the Government from time to time. Wherever the rate of premium is to be decided based on rates mentioned in ASR, rate in the ASR shall be of the year of granting the permission.
1.9 MEANINGS AS IN ACTS, RULES & INTERPRETATIONS i) Terms and expressions not defined in these regulations shall have the same meaning or sense as in the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 (Maharashtra Act No. UDCPR-2020 20 XXXVII of 1966) or the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 or National Building Code2005 as amended from time to time and the rules or bye-laws framed there under, as the case may be, unless the context otherwise requires. ii) The Maharashtra General Clauses Act, as amended from time to time shall be applicable in case of standard terms and phrases as defined and interpreted therein, iii) In these regulations, the use of the present tense includes the future tense, the masculine gender includes the feminine and neutral genders, the singular includes the plural and plural includes singular. The word "person" includes a corporation as well as an individual; "writing" includes printing, typing, e-communication and "signature" includes e-signature, digital signature and thumb impression of a person unable to sign, provided that his name is written below such impression. iv) Whenever sizes and dimensions of rooms and spaces within buildings are specified, they shall mean clear dimensions unless otherwise specified in these regulations. However, sizes and dimensions may not be disputed with reference to finished/unfinished surfaces unless they affect overall dimensions of the building. v) If any question or dispute arises with regard to interpretation of any of these regulations the matter shall be referred to the State Government, who, after considering the matter and, if necessary, after giving hearing to the parties, shall give a decision on the interpretation of the provisions of these regulations. The decision of the Government on the interpretation of these regulations shall be final and binding on the concerned party or parties. vi) In the case of provisions of other Acts/ Rules/ Regulations which are incorporated in these regulations, the amendments made subsequently in parent Acts/Rules/Regulations, will automatically be applicable, wherever applicable, to these regulations. vii) If a Marathi version of these Regulations exists and if there is a conflict in interpretation of any clause between English & Marathi versions of these Regulations, then the interpretation of English version shall prevail.
1.10 REMOVAL OF DIFFICULTIES. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations, the State Government may, by order published in the official Gazette, give such directions, as may appear to it to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of removing the difficulty.
Provided that, no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of 1 years from the date of coming in to force of this Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations. -*-*-*-*-*- UDCPR-2020 21
CHAPTER – 2 DEVELOPMENT PERMISSIONAND COMMENCEMENT CERTIFICATE
2.1 PERMISSION FROM THE PLANNING AUTHORITY IS MANDATORY
2.1.1 Necessity of Obtaining Permission: No person shall carry out any development work including development of land by laying out into suitable plots or amalgamation of plots or development of any land as group housing scheme or to erect, re-erect or make alterations or demolish any building or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a separate building permit / development permission/ commencement certificate for each such development work/ building from the Authority. As stipulated in section 18/46 of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966, no such permission shall be in contravention of the Regional Plan, Development Plan proposals as the case may be.
2.1.2 Permission Not Necessary -No such permission shall be necessary for:- i) carrying out of works in compliance with any order or direction made by any Authority under any law for the time being in force. ii) carrying out of works by any Authority in exercise of its powers under any law for the time being in force. iii) the excavation (including excavation of wells) made in the ordinary course of agricultural operation. iv) the construction of a road intended to give access to land solely for agricultural purpose. v) normal use of land which has been used temporarily for other purposes like marriage pandals or for festive occasions etc. on private land; vi) provision of safety grills to window/ventilator, vii) distribution/receiving substation of the electric supply company. viii) installation of solar panels having base of solar panel at height upto 1.8m. from terrace, ensuring structural stability from the Licensed Structural Engineer. ix) providing internal lightweight partitions/cabins in the commercial building/ establishment with certificate of structural stability from the Licensed Structural Engineer. x) temporary structures for godowns/storage of construction materials within the site. xi) temporary site offices, sample flats and watchman chowkys within the site only during the phase of construction of the main building. xii) temporary structures for storage of machinery before installation for factories in industrial lands within the site. xiii) labour camps for construction sites, provided adequate water supply and sanitation facilities are provided and safety is ensured; xiv) construction of temporary sets for film / TV serial / advertisement shooting and like activities for a period not more than one year, subject to intimation to the authority. xv) building on plot area upto 150 sq.mt. (low risk category) and on plot area more than 150sq.mts. upto 300 sq.mt.(moderate risk category) subject to compliance as per APPENDIX K. UDCPR-2020 22
2.1.3 Development undertaken on behalf of Government As per the provisions of Section 58 of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 the office in-charge of the Government Department shall inform in writing to the Authority of the intention to carry out its purpose along with details of such development or construction as specified below and as certified by the Government Architect/Architect/Technical personnel:- i) An official letter by the authorized officer of Government Department addressed to the Authority, giving full particulars of the development work or any operational construction. ii) Ownership document and measurement plan issued by the Competent Authority of Land Records Department. iii) Development / building plans conforming to the provisions of Development Plan / Regional Plan and these Regulations for the proposed development work to the scale specified in these Regulations. iv) The proposals of the Development Plan or Town Planning Scheme or Regional Plan affecting the land. v) A Site Plan (of required copies) of the area proposed to be developed to the scale. vi) Detailed plan (of required copies) showing the plan, sections and elevations of the proposed development work to the scale, including existing building specifying either to be retained or to be demolished.
2.1.4 Operational Constructions No permission shall be necessary for operational construction of the Government or Government undertaking, whether of temporary or permanent nature, which is necessary for the operation, maintenance, development or execution of any of the following services : a) Railways; b) National Highway; c) National Waterway; d) Airway and Aerodromes and Major Ports; e) Posts and Telegraphs, Telephones, Wireless, Broadcasting and other like forms of Communication excluding Mobile Towers; f) Regional grids, towers, gantries, switchyards, control room, relay room for transmission, distribution, etc. of electricity; g) Defence Authorities; h) Any other essential public service as may be notified by the State/ Central Government; i) The following constructions for operational purposes of new railway lines or tracks by the Metro Rail Administration (MRA) / Project Implementing Agency designated by the Government for the Metro rail and Mono rail / light Rail Transit (LRT) Project. "Operation Control Centre, Playback Training Room. Administration Building, Stabling Yards, Maintenance Workshop and Training Centre, Auto Car Wash Plant and Auto Wash Plant, Auxiliary Rail Vehicle Building, Under Floor Wheel Lathe and Blow Down Plant, Cooling Tower, Generator Area, Auxiliary Sub-station, Traction Sub-station, Transformer Area, Water Treatment Plant, Waste Water Treatment Plant, Deport Control Centre, sump Area, Parking, Check Post, Loading and unloading areas, Fouling Points, DG set Rooms, UDCPR-2020 23 Metro and Mono stations (underground and elevated), Viaduct and tunnel, Ventilation Shaft, Entry/ Exit Blocks, Passages, Underground passage to Station box, Lifts, Staircases, Escalators, Transit accommodation / Guest rooms, Metro Stations/ Depots on property owned by it in all Use Zones, Air Handling Unit, Fire staircase, Fire lift and fire passages, Refuge area, thereto." j) Facilities & services such as Roads, Water Supply, Sewerage, Storm Water Disposal and any other essential public services carried out by State/ Central Government or its undertakings / Bodies or the Local Bodies including: -
(a) maintenance or improvement of highway, road or public street, being works carried out on land within the boundaries of such highway, road or public street; or
(b) inspecting, repairing or renewing any drains, sewers mains, pipes including gas pipes, telephone and electric cables, or other apparatus including the breaking open of any street, or other land for the purpose.
Provided that the concerned authority shall inform the Planning Authority in writing at the earliest and pay the necessary restoration charges to the Planning Authority within a month. The restoration charges shall not be more than the expenditure to be incurred by the Authority to restore the road etc. along with supervision charges, if any. All such constructions shall, however, conform to the prescribed requirements for the provision of essential services, water supply connections, drains, etc. to the satisfaction of the Authority.
2.1.5 Constructions Not Covered under the Operational Constructions The following constructions of the Government Departments do not come under the purview of operational construction for the purpose of exemption. In such cases intimation to the authority as mentioned in above regulation shall be necessary. a) New residential building (other than gate lodges, quarters for limited essential operational staff and the like), roads and drains in railway colonies, hospitals, clubs, institutes and schools in case of railways; b) A new building, new construction or new installation or any extension thereof, in case of any other services other than those mentioned in these regulations.
2.1.6 Temporary Constructions Permission shall be necessary for carrying out temporary construction. The Authority may grant permission for temporary construction for a period not exceeding six months at a time and in the aggregate not exceeding a period of one year. Such permission may be given by him for the construction of the following, viz.:-
(i) Structures for protection from the rain or covering of the terraces during monsoon only.
(ii) Pandals for fairs, ceremonies, religious functions, etc. on public land.
(iii) Structures of exhibitions/ circuses etc.
(iv) Structures for ancillary works for quarrying operations in conforming zones.
(v) Government milk booths, telephone booths, MAFFCO stall and ATM Centres.
(vi) Transit accommodation for persons to be rehabilitated in a new construction.
(vii) Structures for educational and medical facilities within the site of the proposed building during the phase of planning and constructing the said permanent buildings.
(viii) Ready mix concrete plant. UDCPR-2020 24
Provided that, necessary documents along with necessary scrutiny fees shall be submitted by the applicant along with the application for temporary construction.
Provided that, temporary constructions for structures etc. mentioned at (vi), (vii) and (viii) may be permitted to be continued temporarily by the Authority, but in any case not beyond completion of construction of the main structure or building and that, structure in (iv) and (v) may be continued on annual renewal basis by the Authority beyond a period of one year.
Provided further that approval of the Chief Fire Officer of the authority shall be obtained, wherever necessary.
2.1.7 Repairs to Building The permission shall not be required for the following types of repairs to existing authorised building, which do not amount to additions or alternations. Only intimation to the Authority by the owner alongwith the certificate of licensed personnel shall be given. i) Changing of doors and windows in the same position. ii) Strengthening of existing walls, existing roof in the same position. iii) Any other items similar to above.
2.2 PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION/BUILDING PERMISSION/COMMENCEMENT CERTIFICATE
2.2.1 Notice/ Application Every person who intends to carry out development or redevelopment, erect or re-erect or make alterations in any place in a building or demolish any building, shall give notice/ application in writing, through registered Architect, Town Planner or Licensed Engineer / Supervisor, to the Authority of his said intention in the prescribed form (See Appendix A1 or A2). It will be mandatory to submit complete information in the form accompanied with Appendix A-1 and A-
2. Such notice shall be accompanied by the payment receipt of required scrutiny fee and any other fee/ charges prescribed by the Authority from time to time and the plans and statements in sufficient copies (See Regulation No. 2.2.2), and as per the requirements under Regulation No.2.2.2 to 2.2.One set of plans shall be retained in the office of the Authority for record after the issue of permission or refusal. The plans may be submitted in electronic form as may be specified by the Authority from time to time. The Authority may set a date after which all submissions, approvals and communication in regard to development permission shall be online.
2.2.2 Information Accompanying Notice/ Application The Notice/Application shall be accompanied with the ownership title, key (location) plan, site plan, sub-division layout plan/ building plan, plans for services, specifications and certificate of supervision etc., as prescribed in these regulations. Ordinarily four copies of plans and statements shall be made available along with the notice; however, the number of such copies required shall be as decided by the Authority.
2.2.3 Ownership title and area Every application for development permission and commencement certificate shall be accompanied by the following documents for verifying the ownership and area etc. of the land - i) Latest7/12 extracts or property register card of a date not earlier than six months prior to the date of submission of development proposal, power of attorney, wherever applicable or attested copy of lease deed of the concerned lessor authority, enabling ownership of the document. In case of Ulhasnagar, conveyance deed and/ or sanad issued by the Revenue UDCPR-2020 25 Authority may also be considered. ii) Original measurement plan/city survey sheet of the land or lands under development proposal issued by Land Record Department. iii) Statement of area of the holding by triangulation method/ CADD (Computer Aided Design and Drafting Software) from the qualified licensed technical personnel or architect with an affidavit from the owner in regard to the area in the form prescribed by the Authority. iv) Any other document prescribed by the Authority. v) In case of revised permission, wherever third party interest is created by way of registered agreement to sale or lease etc. of the apartment, consent of such interested party/persons as specified under RERA Act shall be submitted. vi) A self-attested copy of sub-division/ amalgamation/ layout of land approved by the concerned authority, if any. vii) In the case of land leased by the Government or local authorities, no objection certificate of Government or such authorities shall be obtained if there is deviation from lease conditions and shall be attached to the application for development permission in respect of such land. Such no objection certificate shall also be necessary, where, development proposal proposes to utilise FSI more than mentioned in the lease deed.
2.2.4 Key Plan or location plan The key plan drawn to a scale of not less than 1:4000 shall be submitted along with the application for a building permit and Commencement Certificate showing the boundary locations of the site with respect to neighbourhood landmarks or features within the radius of 200 meters from the site whichever is more.
2.2.5 (a) Sub-division /layout plan In the case of development of land, the notice shall be accompanied by the sub-division/ layout plan which shall be drawn to a scale of not less than 1:500, however, for layout having areas 4.0 ha. and above, the plan shall be drawn at a scale of not less than 1:1000, containing the following:- i) Scale including a graphical scale used and north point; ii) The location within the land of all proposed and existing roads with their existing/ proposed widths and all the proposals of the Development Plan/ Town Planning Scheme, if any; iii) Dimension of plots; iv) The location of drains, sewers, public facilities and services, electrical lines, Natural water courses, water bodies and streams etc.; v) Table indicating size, area and use of all plots in the sub-division / layout plan; vi) The statement indicating the total area of the site, area utilized under roads, recreational open spaces, playground, amenity space, and development plan reservation/ roads, schools, shopping and other public places along with their percentage with reference to the total area of the site proposed to be sub-divided/ laid out; vii) In case of plots which are sub-divided in built-up areas in addition to the above, the means of access to each sub divided plot from existing streets. UDCPR-2020 26 viii) Contour plan of site, wherever necessary.
(b) Amalgamation Plan Where two or more plots/ holdings of same or different owners are to be amalgamated, an amalgamation plan showing such amalgamation drawn to a scale of not less than 1:500 shall accompany the application. Instead of submitting a separate plan, such amalgamation may be allowed to be shown on building / layout-plan itself.
2.2.6 Site Plan The site plan shall be submitted with an application for building permission drawn to a scale of 1:500 or more as may be decided by the Authority. This plan shall be based on the measurement plan duly authenticated by the appropriate officer of the Department of Land Records. This plan shall have the following details:- i) Boundaries of the site and of any contiguous land belonging to the neighbouring owners; ii) Position of the site in relation to neighbouring streets; iii) Name of the street, if any, from which the building is proposed to derive access; iv) All existing buildings contained in the site with their names (where the buildings are given names) and their property numbers; v) Position of the building and of other buildings, if any, which the applicant intends to erect, upon his contiguous land referred to in (i) above; vi) Boundaries of the site and, in a case where the site has been partitioned, boundaries of the portions owned by others; vii) All adjacent streets, buildings (with number of storey and height) and premises within a distance of 12 m. of the work site and of the contiguous land (if any) referred to in (i). If there is no street within a distance of 12 m. of the site, the nearest existing street with its name; viii) Means of access from the street to the building and to all other buildings (if any) which the applicant intends to erect upon; ix) Space to be left around the building to secure free circulation of air, admission of light and access; x) The width of the street (if any) in front and the street (if any) at the side or near of the building, including proposed roads; xi) The direction of north line relative to the plan of the building; xii) Any existing physical features, such as wells, tanks, drains, pipe lines, high tension line, railway line, trees, etc.; xiii) Overhead electric supply lines, if any, including space for electrical transformer / substation according to these Regulations or as per the requirements of the electric distribution company; xiv) Any water course existing on site or adjacent to site; xv) Existing alignments of water supply and drainage lines; xvi) Such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Authority.
2.2.7 Building plan The plans of the buildings and elevation and section to be sent with the application UDCPR-2020 27 accompanying the notice shall be drawn to a scale of 1:100. The building plan shall: i) Include floor plans of all floors together with the built up area clearly indicating the sizes of rooms and the position and width of staircase, ramps and other exit ways, lift wells, lift machine room and lift pit details, meter room and electric sub-station and also include ground floor plan as well as basement plan and shall indicate the details of parking space and loading and unloading spaces provided around and within the building as also the access ways and the appurtenant open spaces with projections in dotted lines, distance from any building existing on the plot in figured dimensions along with accessory building. These plans will also contain the details of FSI calculations; ii) Show the statement of carpet area of every apartment or any unit along with areas of balconies and double height terraces, if any, attached to the said unit; iii) Show the use or occupancy of all parts of the buildings; iv) Show exact location of essential services, such as water closet (W.C.), bath, sink and the like; v) Include sectional drawings showing clearly the thickness of basement wall, wall construction, size and spacing of framing members, floors, slabs, roof slabs with the materials. The section shall indicate the height of the building, rooms and parapet, drainage and slope of the roof. At least one section should be taken through the staircase. vi) Show relative levels of street. vii) Give dimensions of the projected portion beyond the permissible building line viii) Include terrace plan indicating the drainage and the slope of the roof. ix) Give indication of the north line relative to the plan. x) Details of parking spaces provided. xi) Give dimensions and details of doors, windows and ventilators. xii) Give the area statement with detailed calculation chart of each floor of the building or area as per periphery line of construction (P-line) excluding ducts and voids. xiii) Show the pump rooms, rain water harvesting system, sewage treatment plant, if any; xiv) Certificate of Structural Engineer about structural and earthquake safety in case of building above G+2 or stilt +2structure. xv) Give such other particulars as may be required to explain the proposal clearly as prescribed by the Authority.
2.2.8 Building plans for Special Buildings The following additional information shall be furnished / indicated in the Building Plans in addition to the items (i) to (xv) of Regulation No. 2.2.7; a) Access to fire appliances/vehicles with details of vehicular turning circle and clear motorable access way around the building of minimum 6 m. width; b) Size(width) of main and alternate staircases, wherever necessary, along with balcony approach, corridor, ventilated lobby approach; c) Location and details of lift enclosures; d) Location and size of fire lift; e) Smoke stop lobby/door, where provided; UDCPR-2020 28 f) Refuse chutes, refuse chamber, service duct, etc.; g) Vehicular parking spaces; h) Refuse area, if any; i) Details of Building Services:-Air-conditioning system with position of fire dampers, mechanical ventilation system, electrical services, boilers, gas pipes etc., j) Details of exits including provision of ramps, etc. for hospitals and buildings requiring special fire protection measures; k) Location of generator, transformer and switch gear room; l) Smoke exhauster system, if any; m) Details of fire alarm system network; n) Location of centralized control, connecting all fire alarm systems, built in fire protection arrangements and public address system etc.; o) Location and dimensions of static water storage tank and pump room along with fire service inlets for mobile pump and water storage tank; p) Location and details of fixed fire protection installations such as sprinklers, wet risers, hose reels, drenchers, C02 installation etc.; q) Location and details of first aid, fire-fighting equipment’s /installations; r) Certificate of structural engineer about structural and earthquake safety; s) Clearance certificate from the Chief Fire Officer of the Authority or Director of Fire services, as the case may be.
2.2.9 Service plan - Plans, elevations and sections of water / grey-water supply, sewage disposal system and details of building services, where required by the Authority, shall be made available on a scale not less than 1:100 and for layouts 1:1000.
2.2.10 Supervision The notice shall be further accompanied by a certificate of supervision in the prescribed form as given in Appendix B, by Architect / Licensed Engineer / Supervisor /Town Planner, as the case may be. In the event of the said licensed technical personnel ceasing to be employed for the development work, further development work shall stand suspended till a new licensed technical person is appointed.
2.2.11 Clearance from other Departments In case of development / construction of buildings requiring clearance from the authorities like Civil Aviation Authority, Railways, Directorate of Industries, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, District Magistrate, Inspectorate of Boilers and Smoke Nuisance, Defence Department, Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority, Archaeological Department etc., the relevant no objection certificates from these authorities, whichever applicable, shall also accompany the application, where such information is not received by the authority as mentioned in Regulation No. 3.1.13. In case of building identified in Regulation No.1.3 (93) (xiv), the building scheme shall also be cleared by the Fire Officer of the authority or in absence of such officer, by Director of Maharashtra Fire Services or an officer authorised by him. UDCPR-2020 29
2.2.12 Building / Layout Permission Scrutiny Fee The notice shall be accompanied by a self-attested copy of receipt of payment of building/ layout permission Scrutiny Fee. These fees shall be as mentioned below and shall be subject to Government orders, if any. Provided that, such fees shal