Maha cancels bonanza for 5-star hotels near airport

  • | Thursday | 15th November, 2018

This was when most five-star hotels were constructed near the international airport. "The plots, owned by private persons, near the international airport, were reserved as open space in the city's first development plan (DP) in 1967. In the second DP in 1992, BMC allowed the landowner to use half of the land for commercial activities but put a condition to keep the remaining half as open space and allow public to use it for few hours every day. Earlier, the government changed rules which said that hotels have to give BMC only 20% of the half reserved for RG, and can keep the remaining reserved plot with them permanently as open space.Town planners pointed out that the DCR was silent on whether the landowners were entitled to additional FSI or TDR for keeping the land as open space in their custody. This, combined with another clause , that permitted calculation of the plot's development potential on the basis of gross plot area under the ownership of the land-owner, would have been a bonanza.In a corrigendum, the government said, "No FSI/TDR/compensation in any from shall be allowed for the area kept permanently open as park and even for area to be handed over to BMC.

MUMBAI: Owners of five-star hotels around the international airport, who had hoped to use land in their possession for expansion following some changes in development control regulations (DCR), received a setback with the state government cancelling it.TOI had reported (5-stars near airport get devpt bonanza, Oct 13) that five-star hotels around the international airport in Sahar, Andheri (E), can utilise development potential on most of the reserved public recreational grounds in their possession in the form of additions floor space index-transfer of development rights (FSI-TDR).The hotels could carry out constructions on only 50% of their plots, and had to reserve the remaining half as recreational grounds (RG) to be open to the public for certain hours of the day. Earlier, the government changed rules which said that hotels have to give BMC only 20% of the half reserved for RG, and can keep the remaining reserved plot with them permanently as open space.Town planners pointed out that the DCR was silent on whether the landowners were entitled to additional FSI or TDR for keeping the land as open space in their custody. This, combined with another clause , that permitted calculation of the plot's development potential on the basis of gross plot area under the ownership of the land-owner, would have been a bonanza.In a corrigendum, the government said, "No FSI/TDR/compensation in any from shall be allowed for the area kept permanently open as park and even for area to be handed over to BMC."The plots, owned by private persons, near the international airport, were reserved as open space in the city's first development plan (DP) in 1967. In the second DP in 1992, BMC allowed the landowner to use half of the land for commercial activities but put a condition to keep the remaining half as open space and allow public to use it for few hours every day. This was when most five-star hotels were constructed near the international airport.

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