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MUMBAI: Private landowners and builders are lobbying for Special Development Zone (SDZ) lands in Mumbai roughly 7,000 acres of open and green space to be thrown open for construction with more development rights vested in them than envisaged earlier.
In 2018, the state government redefined No-Development Zones (NDZ) as SDZ. The new policy, which is still awaiting final cabinet clearance, allows developers more construction rights on such lands if they agreed to build affordable homes on 30% of their plots, retain another 15% for open spaces and 12% for public amenities. The builder would then receive the floor space index (FSI) of the entire plot to load on the remaining 43% for profits.
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Greens say it’s high time State adopted a sustainable development model
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Greens say it’s high time State adopted a sustainable development model
With the State reeling under the impact of climate change, including two back-to-back floods, the call for adopting sustainable development model is getting louder.
Environmental campaigners have called for a paradigm shift in the concept of development and the environment priorities of the State, as a new government will assume office in May.
V.S. Vijayan, former chairman of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board, wants the next government to strictly follow a green path when it comes to development. Its high time that the State adopted a sustainable development pattern. Green alternatives should be explored in all sectors.
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These days, barricades and bulldozers obscure the view of Mumbaiâs Arabian Sea coastline. Signboards that read âconnecting people and placesâ watch over construction crews that have made good use of the pandemic lockdown to ramp up work on the ambitious Coastal Road project.
The 29-km road will link Marine Drive in the south to Kandivali in the north. The anticipated benefit? Reduction in travel time by about 70 percent in the second most
congested city in the world. Is the intended benefit worth the estimated cost in public resources, livelihoods, and environmental damage?
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comprises an eight-lane partly elevated road, a 2.31-km main bridge, a 13-km interchange bridge, a sea wall, and Indiaâs first undersea tunnel. About 68,000 vehicles are
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