No commercial activity for residential colonies having narrow roads: BDA
The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) informed the Karnataka high court that in residential areas having roads less than 40 feet wide roads, no commercial or ancillary land use will be permitted. This was announced by the BDA counsel in a hearing of a PIL challenging the revised master plan 2015. It was actually in response to petitioners’ counsel that voiced concern that the proposal submitted did not take into account that most roads in residential areas are 40 feet wide or less.
Chief Justice DH Waghela, who heads the division bench, asked the BDA counsel to submit an affidavit by a responsible officer on the stand taken by the authority by the next date of hearing, which is February 19.
Source: The Times of India
The BDA has proposed to divide the city’s residential areas into ring I, II and III. Ring I and II are core areas and ring III mainly comprises of areas beyond Outer Ring Road.
The BDA had earlier proposed that in Ring III ancillary use can be allowed up to 20% of the total built-up area or 50 sq m whichever is lower, only in plots abutting roads of 12m or more width. If the plot size is more than 1,000 sq m with a frontage of 10 metres or more and the abutting roads are over 18 metres wide, it was stated that the ancillary use can be the main use.
Transport as main use in residential (main) areas, is also allowed as per the modified draft proposals submitted by BDA on February 6 as per petitioners’ counsel argued. Also, the proposal allows ancillary use for commercial, industrial and utilities purposes. The same use is allowed in the residential (mixed) zone. He pointed out that ring III for both residential (main) and residential (mixed) must be deleted. The concept of town planning and zoning will be rendered impractical if ancillary use as main use is permitted, he added.
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