UDCPR 2020 / Chapter 5, Additional provisions for regional plan areas

5.5.1 Regulations for proposed Buffer Zone up to 2.5 km. aerial distance around Mahabaleshwar

UDCPR 2020 as amended to 30.01.2025

Panchgani Region. The following Regulations is applicable for the proposed Buffer Zone :-

Proposed Land-use Zone       Permissible Users                Permissible FSI
Lands falling within 50 m.                 No development shall be allowed.

distance from the boundary

of     Mahabaleshwar     -

Panchgani Region.

Agriculture    /       No All           users a) Maximum permissible FSI shall be
Development Zone          permissible      in    0.75 for the lands falling within
                          Agriculture Zone as    permissible peripheral distance from
                          per      Regulation    the gaothan.
                          No.4.11.            b) Maximum permissible FSI shall be as

per Regulation No.4.11 from the lands falling beyond such permissible distance.

Forest The development as may be required by the Ministry of Forest or its Authorities as per the requirements shall only be permissible on the lands owned and possessed by the Ministry of Environment and Forest or its Authorities. Eco-Sensitive Area Users permissible a) Maximum permissible FSI shall be shall be as per 0.75 for the lands falling within MOEF Notification permissible peripheral distance from dt.27/02/2017. the gaothan.

b) Maximum permissible FSI shall be as per Regulation No.4.11 from the lands falling beyond such permissible distance.

Core and Buffer Zone Permissible users and FSI For gaothans in Buffer Zone. of Sahyadri Tiger shall be as per the a) Maximum permissible FSI shall

                Project               Development           Control  be 0.75 for the lands falling
                                      Regulations being prepared     within permissible peripheral
                                      for this Zone by the Local     distance from the gaothan.

Advisory Committee headed b) Maximum permissible FSI shall by Divisional Commissioner, be as per Regulation No.4.11 Pune. Till such Regulations from the lands falling beyond are framed, for the peripheral such permissible distance. area of the gaothans falling in Buffer Zone, the users

                                      permissible       in       the

Agriculture Zone shall be allowed with the approval of Competent Authority of the Forest Department. In the Core Zone, no development shall be permissible.

Area of Growth Centre / As per the Land use 0.75 FSI shall be permissible for the Urban Complex falling proposed in such Growth proposed Residential Land use Zone within the Buffer Zone. Centre / Urban Complex and for the proposed Agriculture/ No Plan. Development Zone, the FSI for users permissible shall be as per Regulation No.4.11

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To see how 5.5.1 and the rest of UDCPR apply to a particular plot, with the clause behind every figure, open Citiwise.

The text of the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations for Maharashtra State, as amended to 30.01.2025. The notification of the Urban Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, is the authoritative text.