The draft development plan shall be on a scale not lower than

eighty metres to a centimetres and shall show in distinguishing prescribed colours the area or sites and the uses to which they are proposed to be put. Manner of preparation of draft development plan. Guj. 18 of 2008

12. (1) A draft development

2[which would be in conformity with the development plan under the provisions of the Gujarat Metropolitan Planning Committee Act, 2008] shall be inserted; Contents of draft development plan.

plan shall generally indicate the manner in which the use of land in the area covered by it shall be regulated and also indicate the manner in which the development therein shall be carried out.

1. (2) In particular, it shall provide, so far as may be necessary, for all or any of the following matters, namely :-
   • (a) proposals for designating the use of the land for residential, industrial, commercial, 3[educational agricultural and recreational purpose;

4[or such other

purposes]

1. (b) proposals for the reservation of land for public purposes, such as schools, colleges and other educational institutions, medical and public health institutions, markets, social welfare and cultural institutions, theatres and places for public entertainment, public assembly, museums, art galleries, religious buildings, play-grounds, stadiums, open spaces, dairies and for such other purposes as may, from time to time, be specified by the State Government;

1. These words, brackets and figures were inserted by Guj. 3 of 1995, s. 3.

2. These words, were inserted by Guj. 11 of 2014, s. 5(1).

3. These words, were inserted ibid., s. 5(2)(i)(a).

4. These words, were inserted ibid., s. 5(2)(i)(b).

1. (c) proposals for designation of areas for zoological gardens, green belts, natural reserves 1[water body, water course] and sanctuaries;
2. (d) transport and communications, such as roads, highways, parkways, railways, waterways, canals and airport, including their extension and development;
3. (e) proposals for water supply, drainage, sewage disposal, other public utility amenities and services including supply of electricity and gas;
4. (f) reservation of land for community facilities and services;
5. (g) proposals for designation of sites for service industries, industrial estates and any other industrial development on an extensive scales;
6. (h) preservation, conservation and development of areas of natural scenery and landscape 2[and of heritage buldings and heritage precincts;]
   • (i) preservation of features, structures or places of historical, natural, architectural or scientific interest and of educational value;
7. (j) proposals for food control and prevention of river pollution;
8. (k) proposals for the reservation of land for the purposes of Union, any State, local authority or any other authority or body established by or under any law for the time being in force;
9. (l) the filling up or reclamation of low lying, swampy or unhealthy areas or leveling up of land;
10. (m) provision for controlling and regulating the use and development of land within the development area, 3[including imposition of charges at such rate as may be provide for grant of Floor Space Index (FSI) or height, and also imposition of] conditions and restrictions in regard to the open space to be maintained for buildings, the percentage of building area for a plot, the location, number, size, height, number of storeys and character of H-86-3 buildings and density of built up area allowed in specified area, the use and purposes to which a building or specified areas of land may or may not be appropriated, the sub-divisions of plots, the discontinuance of objectionable uses of land in any area in any specified periods, parking spaces, loading and unloading space for any building and the sizes of projections and advertisement signs and hoardings and other matters as may be considered necessary for carrying out the objects of this Act;
11. (n) provision for preventing or removing pollution of water or air caused by the discharge of waste or other means as a result of the use of land;
12. (o) such other proposals for public or other purposes as may from time to time be approved by the area development authority or as may be directed by the State Government in this behalf. Publication of draft development plan. 13. (1) The area development authority or, as the case may be, the authorized officer shall, as soon as may be, after a draft development plan is prepared and submitted to the State Government under section 9, publish it in the Official Gazette and in such other manner as may be prescribed along with a notice in the prescribed manner, inviting suggestions or objections from any person with respect to the development plan within a period of two months from the date of its publication. 1. These words, were inserted by Guj. 11 of 2014, s. 5(2)(ii). 2. These words, were inserted ibid., s.5(2)(iii). 3. These words were substituted and were deemed to have always been substituted with effecet from 18 th may, 2002, ibid., s.5 (2) (iv).

1. (2) The following particulars shall be published along with the draft development plan, namely :-
   • (a) a statement indicating broadly the uses to which lands in the area covered by the plan are proposed to be put and any survey carried out for the preparation of the draft development plan;
   • (b) maps, charts and statements explaining the provisions of the draft development plan;
   • (c) the draft regulations for enforcing the provisions of the draft development plan;
   • (d) procedure explaining the manner in which permission for developing any land may be obtained from the area development authority or, as the case may be, the authorized officer;
   • (e) a statement of the stage of development by which it is proposed to meet any obligation imposed on the area development authority by the draft development plan;
   • (f) an approximate estimate of the cost involved in acquisition of land reserved for public purposes.