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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:

  1. 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.
  2. To be permitted in commercial areas to be indicated in Industrial Use Zones in Local Area Plans/ Layout Plans
  3. In Residential use zone, existing uses to continue and new ones to come on special permission from the authority Also refer Annex I
  4. No further expansion of residential area
  5. In the New Town proposed Recreational Area
  6. Only Existing uses to continue
  7. Only those industries as listed in Annex I
  8. Permitted only in Heavy Industrial Zone
  9. Existing locations to continue
  10. Permitted only in Heavy Industrial Zone
  11. Permitted only in Heavy Industrial Zone
  12. *In commercial centres in industrial areas
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.