Now, log on for cluster redevpt info …….Clara Lewis
Mumbai: With cluster redevelopment set to change the face of the island city, the BMC has developed a website www.33nine.com to update Mumbaikars on the issue. Clause 33(9) is the Section of Development Control Regulations (DCR) under which the cluster redevelopment is to be allowed. The minimum area required is 40,000 sq feet or one acre.
Mumbaikars can learn about all the proposals that have been submitted for redevelopment as well as details of every proposal. Citizens can also send in their queries about the proposals and the civic body will reply to them.
A high-powered committee headed by the municipal commissioner has been set up to scrutinise every proposal. But now, said civic officials, at the last meeting held in July, it was decided that the building proposal department would scrutinise the proposals while any concession sought by the builder in the DCR would be decided upon by the high-powered committee.
The minutes of every meeting of the committee too will be put up on the website. Cluster redevelopment requires consensus both from tenants and landlords and as a lot is at stake, it only makes sense to be transparent, an official said.
Also, at the last meeting 10 proposals were put up before the committee and every architect was granted only eight minutes to make a presentation. The issue is so complex that eight minutes do no justice. Hence the decision to allow the building proposal department to scrutinise the proposals, the official said.
Though every proposal will go through the high-powered committee twice first at the entry stage and then for the final letter of intentthe final authority will, in fact, be the state urban development department. The state will be the final authority. Though the BMC is the planning authority, it will merely endorse the states decision, an official said.
