CM approves amendment to development control rules

In A decision that is expected to incentivise the redevelopment and reconstruction of old cessed buildings in Mumbai,Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has approved an amendment to the development control regulations (DCR) to ensure that the tenants in these buildings will get houses of a minimum size of 300 sq ft (27.88 sq m).

The amendments to DCR 33 (7) will ensure that the tenants in the reconstructed buildings will get houses the size of minimum 300 sq ft and a maximum of 753.5 sq ft (70 sq m). The non- residential occupants will get an area equal to their existing area in the old buildings. The rules will apply even to those buildings that have begun redevelopment but have not been constructed up to the foundation level.

An FSI equivalent to 3 or that needed for rehabilitation plus incentive,which ever is higher,will be approved for the redevelopment or reconstruction of such buildings.

The builder will also have to make available a corpus fund for ensuring that the residents do not have to bear the costs of repairs and maintainence for the next ten years.

In case the land which houses the old cessed buildings also consists of non-cessed buildings,which have come up before September 30,1969,and if the area of this non-cessed building is restricted to 25 per cent area of the plot,the redevelopment or reconstruction proposal will be considered under the 33 (7) regulation.