GDA has also removed the cap on the area of basement. Earlier, the area of basement was restricted to be 20 percent of the total constructed area of the building.
Earlier, it was not mandatory for small group residential projects having an area of 100 sqm to 2,000 sqm to allot parking space for every unit. For group housing projects, the builders had to provide one car parking space for every 65 sqm of covered area. Due to this, the developers building small size projects hardly arranged parking space in these buildings. This paved way for the residents to use public road as parking space.
Emergency vehicles such as ambulances, police patrolling vehicles and fire tenders are most likely to get affected by street parking. There should be strict measures taken against this.
In order to reduce the number of vehicles parked on internal roads, GDA has come up with this move, as many residents have become used to park their vehicles on roadside which creates issues for free movement.