The city civic authorities have relaxed building rules governing both residential and commercial structures to create more parking space, which can be let out commercially. The new rules that came into effect last week state that extra parking space in a new building will be excluded from the permitted covered area, or floor area ratio. But the plot owner will have to pay the sanction fee for the total parking space and will not be allowed to encroach on the mandatory open space.

The standing committee of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday passed the proposal to engage Urban Mass Transport Company (UMTC) for preparation of a masterplan for various parking projects in Mumbai. These parking projects are to be developed under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) module and will be carried out on DBOT (Design, Build, Operate and Transfer) basis. The Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of India has a 25 per cent stakeholding in UMTC.

After strongly rejecting the New Delhi Municipal Council's proposed "three-loop' traffic system last year for being "impractical', the New Delhi Traders' Association has suggested an improvised plan based on the existing pattern to solve chronic traffic problems ailing the heart of the Capital. According to NDTA president Atul Bhargav, the plan has been submitted to the NDMC and Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) S. N. Shrivastava in March, but it is yet to be approved.

7 parking lots allowed at green belts NAVEED BUTT ISLAMABAD- As many as seven organisations have been allowed parking of vehicles at green belt areas in Islamabad, Law Minister Farooq H Niak told the National Assembly on Monday.

On the hike in parking charges proposed during an Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) meeting, MCD and DDA said they have received the minutes of the meeting and were working out the modalities. They added that it was too early to give out details of the new set-up.

If the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has its way, you will soon have to pay as much as you do at multi-level parking lots to keep your car along the street. With about 25 new multi-level parking lots being constructed in the Capital before the Commonwealth Games 2010 to cater to the Capital's growing vehicular population, the EPCA has proposed to revise parking rates at all surface-level parking areas located in the vicinity of multi-level lots.

Planning Commission recommends Rs 10,000 crore

The Municipal Corporation is planning to introduce a token system in parking lots soon. It is likely to be implemented by April.

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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), it seems, is spending most of its time devising new plans every month to handle parking in the city instead of solving the problem. This time it has more to to add to the further chaos. After parking was decentralised zone-wise few months back to keep a better check on parking mafia, the civic body is again centralising the payment, tendering and collection of parking fees. Remunerative Project Cell (RP)