: Mumbai development rules show how cars matter more than play areas for children #IndiaNEWS Redevelopment means an old or crumbling building is demolished and a new one is put up in its place. Cluster

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Mumbai development rules show how cars matter more than play areas for children #IndiaNEWS
Redevelopment means an old or crumbling building is demolished and a new one is put up in its place. Cluster redevelopment means this process is applied to an amalgamation of contiguous plots – often, as in Mumbai, small and huddled plots with poor common amenities.But what message does a society send when it insists, during cluster redevelopment, that more car parking spaces be provided, increasing as floor space increases, but that the existing play space be halved. Do cars matter more than children?Mumbai’s policies are significant because other cities are declaring they want to follow the “Mumbai model of redevelopment�.Section 33(9) of Mumbai’s Development Control and Promotion Regulations allows cluster redevelopment of large areas, up to a base floor space index, or FSI, of 4.0. Floor space index refers to the ratio of the built-up area relative to the area of the plot. Added to this is an incentive floor space index of the same amount, plus a fungible floor space index that can be purchased, and can add a further 35%.Thus, the total floor space index available on a redevelopment plot can go up to 270% of the base floor space index. This takes the floor space index to eight as the normal, going up to 10.8...Read more

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