Land Use Zoning
All areas in the GMA have been designated as residential, commercial, industrial, public- and semi-public, recreational, transportation, eco-sensitive zone, composite use I and composite use II. The Composite Use I includes residential, commercial, and public- and semi-public uses, whereas Composite Use II includes residential, commercial, public- and semi-public and industrial (existing) uses. Click on the map below to download it.
Proposed Landuse Break-up in GMA
S. N.
Land Use
Categories
Area in Ha.
(excluding
New Towns)
% of
Developed
area
Area in Ha.
(including
New Towns)
% of
Developed
area
1
Residential
8,646
31.92%
10,383
31.65%
2
Retail Commercial
360
1.33%
447
1.36%
3
Wholesale
Commercial
81
.30%
417
1.27%
4
Industrial
518
1.91%
918
2.80%
5
Public and
Semi-Public
3,270
12.07%
3,606
10.99%
6
Composite Use I
814
3.01%
814
2.48%
7
Composite Use II
300
1.11%
841
2.56%
8
Recreation &
Open Space
3,324
12.3%
3,728
11.0%
9
Transportation
2,853
10.53%
3,407
10.39%
10
Eco-Sensitive /
Eco Friendly Zone
6,919
25.5%
8,245
26.0%
Total
27,085
100%
32,806
100%
Land Use Permissibility
Index of Use Zones:
R – Residential
C – Commercial
I – Industrial
P – Public & Semi Public
T – Transportation
G - Green Belt (Recreational and Open Space)
E – Eco-sensitive / Eco Friendly
C I – Composite Use I
C II – Composite Use II
S. N.
Land Uses
Use Zones in Which Permitted
R
C
I
P
T
G
E
CI
CII
1
Airport, Helipad, Flying Club
2
Art gallery, museum, exhibition centre
3
Auto Supply store and Show room
for motor vehicle and machinery
4
Automobile service and repairing station
5
Bank and Safe deposit vault
6
Bird Sanctuary
7
Boarding or lodging house
8
Botanical garden
9
Bus Depot
10
Bus Terminal
11
Canteen and eating house
serving the industries
12
Cemetery, crematorium,
burial ground, electric crematorium
13
Children Traffic Park
14
Cinema
15
Clinic for pets
16
Clinical Laboratory
17
Club house not conducted
primarily as business
18
Club house or other recreational
activities conducted as business
R
C
I
P
T
G
E
CI
CII
19
Cold storage and ice factory
20
College
21
Commercial/ business Offices 2
22
Community hall & welfare centre
23
Contractor plant and storage for
building material
24
Convenience Shopping Centre
25
Convention Centre
26
Cottage, Handloom and
Household Industries 3
27
Court
28
Crèche & Day Care Centre
29
Cultural and Information Centre
30
Customary home occupation
31
Defence
32
Diary and poultry industry
33
Dispensary
34
Dry Cleaners-cleaning and dyeing
35
Educational and research institution
36
Electric Sub-station
37
Existing Village 4
38
Fair Ground
R
C
I
P
T
G
E
CI
CII
38A
Farm House n1
39
Film studio 5
40
Fish curing 6
41
Flatted Group Industry
42
Flood control work
43
Forensic Science Laboratory
44
Forest
45
Gas Godown
46
General Industries 7
47
Golf course
48
Green house
49
Gymnasium
50
Health Centre
51
Hospital
52
Hostels for educational institution
53
Hotel
54
Indoor Games Hall
54A
Integrated Township 14
55
Jail
56
Junk yard 8
57
Local, Municipal, State or
Central Government office
58
Mechanical workshop with lathes,
drills, grinders, spot welding set
59
Medical, eye and dental
practitioners' clinic
60
Monument 9
61
Motor Driving Training Centre
61A
Motel n2
R
C
I
P
T
G
E
CI
CII
62
Municipal facility
(as listed in Annex VII)
63
Music, dance, drama training centre
64
Neighbourhood Shopping Centre-
convenience & local shopping with
vegetables, fruits, flowers, fish and meat.
65
Night Shelter
66
Nursery, Horticulture and Orchards
67
Nursing Home
68
Oil Depot 10
69
Open Air Theatre
70
Orphanage
71
Park, play ground, playfield
and recreational area
72
Personal Service Shop
73
Petrol filling station
n3
74
Photograph studio and laboratory
75
Piggery
76
Planetarium
77
Police Headquarter and Police Lines
78
Police Station, Out Post
and Fire Station
79
Post office, Telephone Exchange,
Telegraph Offices
80
Professional office of a resident of the premise
15
81
Public library
82
Radio broadcasting studio
83
Railway Station
R
C
I
P
T
G
E
CI
CII
84
Reformatory (Juvenile Home)
85
Refinery 11
86
Religious Place like temple, namghar,
mosque, church etc
87
Research and Development Centre
88
Residence cum Work Plot
89
Residential Dwelling
89A
Residential Dwelling Low Income Group 14, n4
90
Residential Plot- Plotted Housing
91
Restaurant, cafeteria, milk bar
92
Retail Shop 12
93
Satellite and Telecommunication Center
94
Schools
95
Service Centre
96
Sewerage treatment plant
97
Social, cultural and religious institution
98
Specialised Park/Ground
99
Sports Training Center
100
Stadium
101
Storage of petroleum and other
inflammable materials
R
C
I
P
T
G
E
CI
CII
102
Storage, Warehouses and Godown
102A
Storage of Processed Food & Diary
Product Consumer and stationery article
n5
103
Swimming Pool
104
Taxi stand and bus stand, cycle and
rickshaw stand
105
Theatre, assembly or concert hall, dance
and music hall and such other place of
entertainment
106
Truck terminal
107
Vending Booth
108
Vocational Training/
Technical Training Institute
109
Watchman or Caretakers' Lodges
110
Water Treatment Plant
111
Weekly Market/ Informal Sector Unit
112
Wholesale Trade
113
Wireless transmitting and weather station,
Transmission Tower
114
Zoological park
Note:
All Existing non nuisance, non-polluting uses to continue in the following use zones:
- Residential
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Public/Semi-public
- Transportation and Communication
- Composite Use I
- Composite Use II
All existing non nuisance, non-polluting uses may be allowed to continue/discontinue after an application for special permission to the Authority in the following use zones:
- Recreational, Commercial, Public/ Semi Public & Green Belt
- Eco-sensitive/ Eco-Friendly.
- All notified forest, water bodies, rivers etc. are classified as Eco-Sensitive Zone. Also the entire other areas west of Gorchuk-Pamohi Road, South of National Highway bye-pass upto Deepar Beel shown in land use zoning plan are classified as Eco-Sensitive Zone where existing Govt. institutions will not be affected.
To be permitted in commercial areas to be indicated in Industrial Use Zones in Local Area Plans/ Layout Plans
In Residential use zone, existing uses to continue and new ones to come on special permission from the authority Also refer Annex I
No further expansion of residential area
In the New Town proposed Recreational Area
Only Existing uses to continue
Only those industries as listed in Annex I
Permitted only in Heavy Industrial Zone
Existing locations to continue
Permitted only in Heavy Industrial Zone
Permitted only in Heavy Industrial Zone
*In commercial centres in industrial areas
Parks, parking, circulation and utilities can be located in any of the use zones. In recreation and eco-sensitive zone, these would be permissible with special permission from the Authority.
The following activities shall be permitted only in Eco-Friendly Zone and not in Eco-Sensitive Zone
- Tourism
- Socio-cultural activities
- Bungalow type construction
- Integrated Township
- Residential Dwelling Low Income Group
Development of land would be permitted in Eco-Friendly Zone, if an integrated land development proposal is submitted. Such proposal should cover an area of more than 20 ha and should have obtained prior Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) clearance from competent authority with maximum coverage of 33% and maximum FAR of 150.
To the maximum of 30 percent of the FAR is allowed
n1 Maximum coverage of 25% and maximum FAR of 50 provided the area is not notified as water bodies forest etc
n2 A roadside hotel designed primarily for motorists, typically having the rooms arranged in low blocks with parking directly outside with 25% coverage & 50 FAR. Provided area is not notified as water bodies, forest etc. & only on plots along NH & peripheral ring roads
n3 In Green Belt it is allowed on N.H by pass and peripheral ring road as a high way amenity.
n4 Maximum coverage of 25% and maximum FAR of 50 with Assam Type structure in areas not notified water bodied forest etc.
n5 Maximum coverage of 40% and maximum FAR of 100 on the plot along National Highway and peripheral ring roads
Note: For interpretation of land use zoning and development control regulation Authority may constitute a committee of experts if such situation arises. The committee may also be given the task of elaborate and add on the above land use permissibility considering the circumstances that may come from time to time in the process of implementation of the plan for subsequent approval of Government.