In a move that aims at providing more land for construction and increased sops to builders in the ecologically sensitive Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) areas, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked the state government to allow the new relaxed building norms to be applicable in such areas. As per existing rules, the Floor Space Index (FSI) that determines the extent of construction that can be carried out on a plot is restricted in CRZ areas.

Mumbai State won

Sanjay Jog / Mumbai December 15, 2010, 0:42 IST

The Maharashtra government has scrapped its policy to grant additional floor space index (FSI) for public parking in Mumbai city under its Development Control Regulations 33 (24).

The government had notified the extra FSI for parking one-and-a-half years earlier following a rise in vehicle population and the need for parking in the city.

Mumbai Pollution monitor serves showcause notices, each project built parking lots for extra FSI

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has issued show-cause notices to 13 real estate projects on the ground that they haven

Real estate development along Mumbai

Sanjay Jog / Mumbai September 16, 2010, 0:10 IST

Mumbai

Mumbai development boost Navi Mumbai, which follows a different development pattern, to be excluded

The additional floor space index (FSI) allowed in Mumbai city in special cases may soon be available in other parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), barring Navi Mumbai.

In the city, higher FSIs are granted for schemes like redevelopment of old buildings in clusters and slum rehabilita

Pune Filling stations will be allowed in

Paul John | TNN
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is taking a step that would to some extent wash away the sins committed by civic planners leading to a disorderly growth. For the first time, the AMC would be practising, what they call, micro zoning in the area under Sabarmati riverfront
project influence.

mumbai Builders with projects near the Metro rail or Monorail routes, or any other major infrastructure development in Mumbai, may soon have to pay a one-time