The Urban Development Department has decided to launch a new housing for police on private land in Mumbai, in a no-development zone which has been converted into a residential zone.
The officials said that the most land in its vicinity has already been developed by the government permission for conversion. The Urban Development Department (UDD) officials said that the plot was located near the Infinity IT Park and civic reservoir in Malad. For the scheme, a draft notification of the eco-sensitive zone around the National Park was issued in January.
According to the housing policy for the police, the state government will develop 33,000 tenements on private land and so introduced the new DCR. For the development of these tenements, the government has directed the developer to maintain a 10-metre buffer zone on land adjoining the forest and the developer will have to develop and 8-metre wide road.
However, over 20-acre (80,934 sq metre) plot is owned by construction firm D B Realty, and its development is being allowed under Section 33(3) (b) of the Development Control Regulations (DCR), which means a developer can sell 80% of the construction as a sale component.
According to the UDD official sources, the developers can construct only 33.1 lakh sq ft. A floor space index (FSI) of 1 will be for police housing and the remaining can be sold by the developer in the open market. In this process, the FSI incentive 0.8. The developer gets the base FSI of 1 and can also use the transfer of development rights, so the total FSI is 3.8. Each police tenement is to be 40 sq m (430.55 sq ft).
In a notification, the UDD said that the home department will have the responsibility for the land development and it will ensure that the police housing component is implemented soon.
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