MIXED USE

1. PROVISIONS OF MIXED USE

Mixed use essen­tially means pro­vi­sion of non­res­id­en­tial activ­ity in res­id­en­tial areas. In the situ­ation, where in a num­ber of res­id­en­tial areas, com­mer­cial activ­ity has already intruded for­mu­la­tion of a bal­anced policy of mixed use con­sid­er­ing its envir­on­mental impact and the socio-economic need of the soci­ety is of utmost pub­lic import­ance. On a single premise or in an area, mixed res­id­en­tial and non-residential activ­ity has its pos­it­ive and neg­at­ive envir­on­mental and socio-economic impacts. It suits the present socio-economic needs of a large sec­tion of the soci­ety and reduces the trans­port­a­tion needs and traffic move­ment con­sid­er­ably. How­ever, unless prop­erly reg­u­lated and in cer­tain con­di­tions it could have quite an adverse effect in terms of con­ges­tion, pol­lu­tion and gen­eral incon­veni­ence to the people of the area.

In view of the above the fol­low­ing approach is suggested: -

• Non-residential activ­ity on res­id­en­tial premises should be per­mit­ted select­ively and care­fully tak­ing into con­sid­er­a­tion com­munity needs, envir­on­mental impact and pro­vi­sion for safe and easy traffic cir­cu­la­tion and adequate parking.
• In case of new devel­op­ments, planned mixed res­id­en­tial and non-residential activ­ity should be intro­duced right at the time of the pre­par­a­tion of the lay­out plans along with the plan­ning of Com­mer­cial Centres for which appro­pri­ate pro­vi­sion of park­ing, cir­cu­la­tion and ser­vices be kept in view. Norms for park­ing and com­mer­cial use on dif­fer­ent floors be specified.
• Noti­fied pro­vi­sions made in the earlier plan may be con­tin­ued within the over­all frame­work of the approved plan. Mixed use may be per­mit­ted on res­id­en­tial plot facing streets/road of min­imum 18.0 mts. ROW in reg­u­lar res­id­en­tial plot­ted devel­op­ment with the pre­scribed devel­op­ment norms, such streets should be noti­fied and given wide pub­li­city. Bun­ga­low Areas of Luty­ens’ Delhi and Civil Lines, gov­ern­ment hous­ing, insti­tu­tional / staff hous­ing and areas of her­it­age and national import­ance shall not be covered under the Mixed use Policy.

2. NON-PERMISSIBLE USES

Any trade or activ­ity involving any kind of obnox­ious, haz­ard­ous, inflam­mable, non-compatible and pol­luted sub­stance or pro­cess shall not be permitted.

3. PERMISSIBLE USES

Mixed use could involve house­hold indus­tries (as per spe­cific con­di­tions provided in the sec­tion per­tain­ing to indus­tries), Retails Shops, Pro­fes­sional Activ­ity and spe­cific other uses as indic­ated here after:

4. RETAIL SHOPS

The fol­low­ing activ­it­ies will not be allowed under mixed use:

1. Retail Shops: Build­ing mater­i­als (tim­ber, tim­ber products, marble, iron and steel and sand) Fire wood, coal and any fire haz­ard­ous and other bulky materials.

2. Repair Shops: — Automobiles repair and work­shops — Cycle rick­shaw repairs, Tyre resort­ing and retreat­ing, Bat­tery charging

3. Stor­age, Godown and Warehousing

4. Junk shop

5. Liquor Shop

6. Print­ing, Dying and Varnishing

7. Any other activ­ity, which may be noti­fied from time to time.

For other Retail shops, Mixed use in noti­fied streets will be sub­ject to the fol­low­ing conditions: -

• Mixed use shops only on ground floor upto the max­imum of ground floor coverage.
• There should be uncon­di­tional sur­render of front set­back, which should not have bound­ary and shall be only used for parking.
• Park­ing @ 2.0 ECS per 100 sq.m. shall be provided within the premises.
• Cost of devel­op­ment of park­ing / com­mon park­ing @ 2.0 ECS per 100 sq.m. in com­mer­cial areas shall be pay­able by the beneficiary.
• For Mas­ter Plan Roads, the premises/ activ­ity areas should be approached from ser­vice lane and dir­ect approach from the main road should be discouraged.
• Per­mis­sion of mixed use would be taken from the con­cerned local Author­ity and will be sub­ject to pay­ment of con­ver­sion charges
• The planned char­ac­ter is to be main­tained. No encroach­ments shall be per­mit­ted on the streets.

5. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Pro­fes­sional activ­ity would include non haz­ard­ous and non nuis­ance kind of activ­ity based on pro­fes­sional skills where the main premises of the con­cerned pro­fes­sional like a doc­tor, law­yer, archi­tect etc. would be sep­ar­ate and only out of office hours ser­vices could be rendered from the res­id­en­tial premises. In such cases, on part of the premises on any floor sub­ject to a max­imum of 25% of the FAR or 100 sq.m, whichever is less for ser­vices based on pro­fes­sional activ­it­ies shall be permissible.

6. OTHER ACTIVITES

The fol­low­ing spe­cific activ­it­ies may be per­mit­ted in res­id­en­tial premises on plots of a min­imum of size of 209 sqm. facing a min­imum road width of 18 mts. ROW (9mts. in ‘Spe­cial Area’ and 13.5 mts. In Rehab­il­it­a­tion Colony).

a) Pre – primary schools (Nurs­ery / Montessori Schools, Crèche etc)

b) Nurs­ing homes

c) Guest houses

d) Bank

Fur­ther, the per­mis­sion of res­id­en­tial land and build­ing for the above activ­it­ies shall be gov­erned by the pro­vi­sions of Noti­fied Reg­u­la­tions in this regard except for Pre– Primary school which should be restric­ted only on ground floor equi­val­ent to the per­miss­ible ground coverage.

Ban­quet Hall

As per the sur­vey con­duc­ted by MCD in May 2002 in respect of Ban­quet Halls it is observed that about 64% of exist­ing Ban­quet halls are situ­ated in res­id­en­tial use zones, 18 % in indus­trial use and 18 % in com­mer­cial use zones. Ban­quet Halls, which do not cause hindrance to the gen­eral pub­lic and provide for park­ing can be per­mit­ted on mixed use streets, where com­mer­cial activ­ity is per­miss­ible, sub­ject to the fol­low­ing conditions:

Ban­quet hall shall be per­mit­ted in Res­id­en­tial and Com­mer­cial use Zones with min­imum plot size of 333 sq.m, facing min­imum 18 mts. ROW roads in res­id­en­tial plot­ted colon­ies (13.5 mts. in Rehab­il­it­a­tion Colon­ies and 9 mts. in Spe­cial Area). The ground cov­er­age, FAR, height and base­ment etc. shall be applic­able as per the Mas­ter Plan norms for spe­cific land use in which the premise is situ­ated, sub­ject to the con­di­tions in respect of park­ing and san­it­a­tion facil­it­ies, hygienic dis­posal of waste and appro­pri­ate levies /charges laid down by the Author­ity from time to time.

7. INTENDED MIXED USE

• The quantum of Mixed use Area and its allocation/ dis­tri­bu­tion for vari­ous cat­egor­ies of Res­id­en­tial areas in New Area shall be spe­cified in the lay­out Plans.
• The lay­out plans would clearly ear­mark areas/ plots for Mixed use, prefer­ably loc­ated opposite/ adjoin­ing des­ig­nated com­mer­cial areas.
• The Plan may provide for mixed use on res­id­en­tial plots at appro­pri­ate loc­a­tions grouped together facing 18 mts. ROW roads and above as per require­ments. The quantum of area to be worked out and com­mon Park­ing areas to be marked in the plan.

8. CONVERSION CHARGES

Because of con­ver­sion of use/activity the con­ver­sion fee shall be charged from the bene­fi­ciary as decided by the Author­ity from time to time.