Kolkata Municipal Corp modifies building rules, allows more parking for big projects
India Today
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has modified its building rules and has now allowed more parking slots and garage space over and above the permissible limit for construction in projects with a built-up area of 1 lakh sq ft or more.
The residents of Kolkata can now have more parking slots or garage space above the permissible limit for construction on a plot. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has tweaked the building rules and allowed the construction of parking space over and above the permissible limits for construction in projects having a built-up area of 1 lakh square feet or more.
As per the rules, every floor is granted a floor-area ratio (FAR) and KMC decides how much construction can be allowed on it. A senior KMC official told the Telegraph, "Earlier, mandatory parking space was not included in the FAR. But now considerable parking space will be allowed to be built without considering it part of the FAR." (sic)
The change in building rules by the KMC is likely to benefit large residential complexes with a built-up area of 1 lakh square feet or more. “The decision was taken after we received an application for construction of additional parking space outside the FAR. This was allowed by the building rules. We decided that instead of giving permission to one, there should be a uniform rule,” the official said (sic).
As per the report, the tweak will not give permission for construction of unlimited additional parking space. The KMC circular said that the additional parking space would not be more than 40 per cent of the mandatory parking space needed for the plot.
If an individual constructs parking space beyond 40 per cent cut off, then it would be considered part of the FAR for the plot.
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In Kolkata, each and every plot or land has a particular limit up to which construction is allowed. The rules of the KMC determine how many parking slots will be mandatory for a given number of flats in a building or a residential complex.
