4.8 Industrial zone

Industries shall include any building or part of a building or structure, in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed, for example assembly plants, laboratories, dry cleaning plants, power plants, pumping station; smoke houses, laundries, gas plants, refineries, dairies and saw - mills. The following uses shall be permissible in Industrial Zone.

i) The service industries as listed in Regulation No.4.4.2(iv) without restrictions on power requirement, employment, floor area and other restrictions.

ii) Any industry / industries may be permitted. Minimum buffer open space / set back (which may include marginal distance and road width if any) from the boundary of industrial Building / use to residential or habitable zone/ use, shall not be less than 23.0 m. Such buffer open space shall be kept in the land falling in the industrial zone. In cases where construction has already taken place in Industrial Zone, then such Buffer open space may be kept in a Residential Zone.

Provided that, the area under such buffer open space / setback shall not be deducted for computation of FSI.

Provided further that, if the land under industrial zone is utilized entirely for non-polluting industries, IT / ITES or like purposes, then such buffer zone / open space shall not be necessary.

Provided further that, industrial godowns/ godowns shall also be permissible under this regulation.

iii) Building or premises in industrial zone may be used for any industrial as well as accessory uses like banks, canteens, welfare centre and such other common purposes considered necessary for the industrial workers, quarters of watchmen, caretakers or other essential staff required to be maintained on the premises. Such residential / commercial / other uses may be permitted up to 25% of the total proposed built-up area of such industrial use.

iv) Following uses may also be permitted

a) Parking lots,

b) Buildings of public utility concerns,

c) Buildings of Banks,

d) Residential Hotels, Restaurants,

e) Storage Buildings,

f) Drive-in-Theatres, cinema or theatres, subject to provisions of the Maharashtra Cinemas (Regulation) Act,

g) Highway amenities as permitted in Agriculture zone with FSI at par with Industrial zone,

h) Industrial training centre / institute,

i) Information Technology Establishments. (IT / ITES),

j) Bio-technology units,

k) Public Charging Stations for Electric Vehicle, Petrol pumps and Service Stations / Fuel Filling Stations including LPG / CNG / Ethanol etc. subject to provisions in Regulation No.6.2.2., Sr.No.6 of Table 6-E.

(l) Hospitals and dispensaries.

v) Transport Hub and Logistic Park including warehousing, cold storage, multimodal transport, container depot, container freight stations etc.