GHAZIABAD: To check haphazard parking that often leads to snarls on roads, GDA has adopted the amendments to building bylaws, notified by the housing and urban planning department in Nov last year.
As per the new amendments, the provision of stilt parking will apply to all types of houses. It will not be accounted for in the calculation of the purchasable floor area ratio (FAR) but counted as part of the building’s height. The bylaw revises the permissible height of a building on plotted land less than 300 sqm, from 10m to 12.5m to allow homeowners to use the ground floor as stilt parking.
“Earlier, a two-and-a-half storey building was allowed on plotted land up to 300 sqm. Mostly, plots or homeowners used the ground floor for residential purposes. Now, the amended bylaw will allow the plot owner to use the ground floor for open stilt parking. If it is converted to covered parking, the concession given to construct an extra floor will not be applicable,” a GDA official said.
The new layouts will now include the changes and they will soon be updated on the computerised map approval system, he added.
In 2018, the GDA commissioned a traffic mobility survey to the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI). In its report, the CDRI identified roadside encroachment in the form of illegal parking and street vendors as the major problems along with road design and suggested ways to tackle it.
The report mentioned illegal parking on the roadsides in Indirapuram and stated on Kala Pathar Road illegally parked vehicles occupied 450 car spaces at any given time. It also stated that along SRS Cinema it eats away 287 car spaces, Swarn Jayanti Park Road 128 car spaces and CISF Road 128 car spaces.
