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Development Control Rules

The document outlines development control rules for the Chennai Metropolitan Area, including: 1. Requirements for site approval, including that sites cannot be contaminated, flood-prone, or near burial grounds. 2. Minimum plot sizes and frontages do not apply to pre-1975 sites or vacant residential plots subdivided before 1975. 3. Types of buildings are defined based on use, height, and occupancy, including ordinary, multi-storey, assembly, special, and more.

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Development Control Rules

The document outlines development control rules for the Chennai Metropolitan Area, including: 1. Requirements for site approval, including that sites cannot be contaminated, flood-prone, or near burial grounds. 2. Minimum plot sizes and frontages do not apply to pre-1975 sites or vacant residential plots subdivided before 1975. 3. Types of buildings are defined based on use, height, and occupancy, including ordinary, multi-storey, assembly, special, and more.

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DEVELOPMENT

CONTROL RULES
Development Regulations for
Chennai Metropolitan Area
Area bounded in :
the North by City limits
the East by Bay of Bengal
the West by Buckingham Canal
the South by Chennai Metropolitan Area boundary
Requirement for site approval :
(1) No development shall be made in a site unless the Authority approves the site for the development.
(2) No piece of land shall be used as a site for the construction of a building for any development if the Authority considers.
(a) If the site is near a water body or water course and the proposed development is likely to contaminate water
body.
(b) If the site is likely to be inundated and satisfactory arrangement for proper drainage is not possible.
(c) If the site is a filled up tank or low lying or of made up of soil by depositing rubbish or offensive matters and
the proposal is likely to be affected by dampness owing to the sub-soil water, unless to satisfaction of the
Authority are provided.
(d) If the site does not abut any existing public or private street forming part of a Lay-out sanctioned under the
provisions of the relevant Local Body Act, conforming to the minimum width prescribed for various uses in
these regulations.
(e) No site in Municipal and Panchayat areas which is within a distance of 30 metres from a place declared and
used as a burning or burial place/ground shall be used for layout or sub division for human habitation
(residential) shall be built including addition / alteration / reconstructions with in 30 metres of such declared
burning or burial place/ground unless such burial/burning place/ground was closed and remained closed for
a period not less than 5 years certified by the local body concerned.
(3) Minimum extent plot frontage and site dimensions under these regulations shall not apply to the sites put
to use and existed as such prior to 5.8.1975 evidenced by Registered Documents provided that the then
existing activity continue in cases of other than residential activities. Further the said parameters shall not
apply to the vacant plot/site for residential use subdivided and registered prior to the said cut off date.

(4) Reconstitution Deed:

If a development is proposed in more than one plot / site proposing amalgamation or reconstitution of the
individual sites.
(a) Reconstitution Deed in the format and manner prescribed by the Authority shall be furnished by the
applicant, and
(b) The proposed building shall fall on the dividing line of the plot / site, such that the individual plot / site is
not ecognizable as a separate entity after execution of the proposed development there on. Provided that the
sub-regulation. (b) above shall not apply to amalgamation of a plot / site to serve as access / passage;
Provided further that the above sub-regulations (a) and (b) shall not apply to sub-division and layout
applications where building proposals are not involved.
TYPES OF BUILDING
BASED ON TYPOLGY : BASED ON ZONES:

Ordinary building Primary Residential use zone


Mixed Residential use zone
Multi-storeyed Buildings
Commercial use zone
Assembly Building
Industrial use zone
Special Building Special and Hazardous Industrial use zone
Residential building Institutional use zone
Open Space and Recreational use zone
Commercial building
Urbanisable use zone
Institutional
Non-Urban use zone
Industrial Agricultural use zone:
Multi-storeyed Buildings means buildings exceeding 4 floors and or 15.25 meters
in height. [However in cases of hospitals, buildings not exceeding 4 floors and or
17metres in height will be construed as non multi-storeyed buildings.]
Ordinary building means a residential or commercial building, which does not fall
within the definition of special building, group development or multi-storeyed
building;
Special Building means
a) a residential or commercial buildings with more than 2 floors; or
b) a residential building with more than six dwelling units; or
c) a commercial building exceeding a floor area of 300 square metres:
That any construction in the second floor as an addition to ground & first floor building which is
three years old shall not be construed as a “Special Building”
 
Assembly Building means any building or part of a building, where 50 persons or
more congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious, patriotic,
civil, travel and similar purposes. These shall include theatres, motion picture
houses, assembly halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, skating rinks, large
gymnasiums, places of worship, dance halls, club rooms, passenger stations and
terminals of air, surface and marine, public transportation services, stadia, etc.,

Mezzanine floor is an intermediate floor between two floors above ground level :-
a) the area of mezzanine is restricted to 1/3rd area of that floor;
b) the height of the mezzanine floor shall be minimum 2.2 metres for non-habitable
purposes and 2.5 metres for habitable purposes; and
c) the head room height of the remaining part of the said floor shall be the total of
the height of the mezzanine floor and the space below the mezzanine floor.’
Height of the Building means the height measured generally from the formed
ground level abutting the road / passage [excluding ramp if any within the plot]
provided that stair-case head rooms, lift rooms, elevated tanks and also WC (with
floor area not exceeding 10sq.m.) above topmost floor, and also architectural
features, and parapet walls of height up to 1 meter shall not be included in
calculating the height of building. In cases where earth filling is made/proposed
within the site above the average level of the abutting street/road, then the height of
building shall be reckoned from the filled up ground level around the building
provided such filling does not exceed 1 meter above the average level of the abutting
street/road. If the height measured from the top of such filling is 15.25 metres,
such building shall not be construed as a Multi-storeyed building.
Stilt floor means a part or whole of floor at ground level or the height above
the ground level described in these regulations where the building is on stilts.
If the stilt-parking floor is to the standards exemptable for FSI it will not be
counted as a floor for the purpose of defining special building or multistoreyed
building.
 Structures in set backspaces :
o In cases of non-multistoreyed buildings (including ordinary buildings)-
Unsupported sunshade, wardrobes, balconies, and other projections from the main walls, stated below so
long as such structures do not fall within minimum prescribed set-back spaces more than what is prescribed
below:

(i) Sun-shades 0.60m


(ii) Non continuous wardrobes or built- in cub boards above ground floor 0.60m
(iii) open non-continuous balconies (above ground floor) 1.20m
(iv) open service verandah to kitchen (above ground floor) 1.20m
(v) Architectural projections above ground floor 1.00m
(vi) Staircase open landing projections (not affecting driveway)1.00m
(vii) Cantilevered portico so long as it does not fall within 1.5m from the street alignment or boundary of the
site which ever is closer.
o A compound wall of height not exceeding 2.0m
o Watchman booth not exceeding 2.5m.x2.5m. in size at each gate and height not exceeding 3 m.

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