Proposed rehabilitation policy for buildings near Mumbai Airport is currently being developed
MUMBAI: According to Eknath Shinde, minister of urban development, the Maha Vikas Aghadi administration would soon come out with a strategy for the rebuilding of structures in the airport runway funnel zone.
Shinde met with transport minister Anil Parab, elected officials from Santa Cruz and Vile Parle, including BJP’s Parag Alavani, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Potnis, MLC Bhai Jagtap, Sena youth leader Varun Sardesai, and top bureaucrats, in an online meeting.
About 20 lakh people of Ghatkopar, Kurla, Santa Cruz, Andheri, and Vile Parle have been affected by the height limitation as a result of their closeness to the airport and are not permitted to utilise additional floor space index for safety considerations (FSI). Redevelopment of these structures is economically unviable due to the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) and other factors. Some of the structures, according to elected officials, are 60-70 years old. MLAs urged that the buildings be permitted TDR on the built-up area (which can be sold in the market and utilised elsewhere) and that the same number of tenements be erected on the site as shown in the BMC records.
Bhushan Gagarani, UDD’s Principal Secretary, have said that BMC has presented a thorough report on the matter with two to three solutions. “The BMC has proposed ways to allow locals to benefit under section 33(7), this is for the renovation of old and damaged structures,” Gagarani added. Residents of the impacted homes banded together in 2019 to draught a restoration proposal, which they presented to state government. Residents proposed that reconstruction be permitted under section 33(7) B, which allows for a FSI of 3 and the conversion of any FSI that cannot be utilised on the land into TDR. They also proposed that construction charges be equal to those charged for slum redevelopment projects in order to reduce building costs.
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