MC general House meet today, to give nod to highrises in city

The building branch has proposed to increase the height of the buildings in the residential, commercial areas, hospitals and malls etc. This has been done looking at the shortage of space and hence corporation will be following the formula of going vertical.

However, changes will be made after the formal approval of the house. Houses measuring 500 to 1000 square yard can now be raised up to 50 feet instead of existing 38.5 feet while hospitals, commercial buildings and malls had the maximum height of 70.5 feet and now there is no limit for the height but with subject to ‘air safety’ in the areas where the height is to be raised. Municipal Town Planner Hemant Batra said, “Looking at the shortage of space, the decision has been taken to make changes in the building bylaws.”

Another important agenda proposed in the meeting would be to give an approval to the change in land use (CLU) to 135 cases in different parts of the city. In the core committee meeting held today, councillors opined that only those cases should be given approval where feasibility was possible. 

The age old rent control act is also likely to be amended so as to charge rentals as per market rates instead of few hundreds of the prime properties of MC.

New projects
* Railway over-bridge (ROB,) Dana Mandi: Rs 30 crore
* ROB, Pakhowal Road: Rs 19.64 crore
* Railway under-bridge (RUB), Shastri Nagar
* Completion of Lodhi Club Road: Rs 5 crore
* Grade separation at Jamalpur Chowk: Rs 30 crore
* Beautification of Ferozepur and Chandigarh Road: Rs 2 crore
* Landscaping of city: Rs 10 crore
* RUB of Lodhi Club: Rs 30 crore
* Five foot over-bridges: Rs 25 crore
* Underpath near District Courts, Aggar Nagar: Rs 8 crore
* ROB, Giaspura: Rs 28 crore