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(vi) Gate pillars without or with arches with a minimum headroom clearance of
5.50 m available atleast to a width of 3.5m.
(vii) Meter Rooms for meter boxes or electrical panels along the boundary wall or
external walls of the building with the projections not exceeding 0.60 meter
from the abutting walls and the open Transformer without affecting parking and
drive way, subject to the safety measures stipulated by Tamil Nadu Electricity
Board.
Explanation: (i) In order to minimize traffic conflicts on to the abutting roads, the
number of vehicular entry or exits to site shall be kept minimum and it shall not exceed
2 numbers (i.e. one entry or one exit); provided that an additional gate for every 50
metres frontage may be allowed in large sites where its frontage exceeds 50 metres.
ii. In the event of the site abutting more than one road one additional gate shall be
permitted
29. Spaces excluded from FSI and Coverage Computation.— The following shall not be
counted towards FSI and plot coverage computation: —
(1) In the terrace above the top most storey, areas covered by stair-case rooms and lift
rooms and passages thereto, architectural features, elevated tanks (provided its
height below the tank from the floor does not exceed 1.5 metre) and WC (with floor
area not exceeding 10 sq.m)
(2) Staircase and lift rooms and passage thereto in the stilt parking floor or upper floors
used for parking
(3) Staircase and lift rooms and passage thereto in the basement floor or floors used for
parking.
(4) Area of the basement floor or floors used for parking
(5) Area of the stilt parking floor provided it is open on sides, and used for parking. In
cases where upper floor or floors over a stilt parking floor is proposed for parking.
(6) Servants or drivers bath room and water closet for each block in cases of Non High
Rise Buildings and High Rise Buildings at ground floor or stilt parking floor
(7) Watchman booth
(8) caretaker booth or room in ground floor or stilt parking floor
(9) Ducts and other open to sky areas
30. Area of special character.—
(1) Continuous Building Areas (CBA).— Buildings without side set back are
permissible in a plot or site in continuous building areas set apart in the approved
Master Plan or Detailed Development Plan or in the other areas as may be declared
by the local body as CBA with the approval of the Directorate of Town and Country
Planning or Government as the case may be from time to time. However in an
approved layout area only in the plots classified for Continuous type of buildings it
is permissible.
(2) Economically weaker section areas (EWS).— Areas declared as slum by Tamil
Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) are categorised as EWS areas for the purpose
of these regulations. In addition it includes the areas developed as EWS plot in the
Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) neighbourhood schemes, Sites and Services
schemes, slum improvement schemes and approved layouts. For the purpose of
application of these rules the Local body may declare areas as EWS Areas by council
resolution and notify from time to time.
(3) Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) area.— Developments in these areas shall
be regulated with reference to the CRZ classifications and the regulations notified