Contents of a Local Area Plan

Contents of a Local Area Plan.-

1. (1) A Local Area Plan may be a Statement incorporating policy, plans, schemes, projects, and strategies for implementation wherein provisions may be made for all or any of the following matters, as the Appropriate Authority deems fit, namely: -
   • (a) Laying out or relaying new or old streets or roads or communications and their appurtenant structures to improve and augment access;
   • (b) designating or the allotment of the land for open spaces, gardens, recreation, schools, markets, commercial, public purpose, space for pickup or drop off points, space for passageway for access to: parking, buildings & spaces for common use;
   • (c) allotment of land for sale by the Appropriate Authority, for residential, commercial, or industrial use depending upon the nature of development;
   • (d) the preservation and protection of objects of historical or national interest, natural beauty, and of buildings actually used for religious purposes;
   • (e) The imposition of conditions and restrictions in regard to the building envelopes and open space to be maintained around buildings, the percentage and size of building area on a plot, with respect to buildings, the number, size, height and character, architectural elements & faced, to be allowed in specified areas, the purposes to which buildings or specified areas may or may not be appropriated, the sub-division of plots, the discontinuance of objectionable uses of lands in any area in specified periods, parking spaces and loading and unloading space for any building and the sizes or locations of projections and advertisement signs;
   • (f) lighting, water supply, drainage inclusive of sewerage, surface or sub-soil drainage and management of sewerage;
   • (g) the suspension, so far as may be necessary, for the proper carrying out of the Local Area Plan, of any rule, byelaw, regulation, notification, or order made or issued under any Act of the State Legislature or any of the Acts which the State Legislature is competent to amend:
   • (h) such other matters not inconsistent with the provisions in any other law pertaining to the natural disaster or hazard prone areas;
     • (i) such other interventions in respect of economic, social, and environmental aspects; (2)
   • (a) The proceeds from the sale of land referred to in sub-clause(d)of sub-section
2. (1) shall be used for the purpose of providing infrastructural facilities;
   • (b) any suspension referred to in sub clause
   • (g) of sub-section
3. (1) shall under this clause shall cease to operate in the event of the State Government refusing to sanction the Local Area Plan or in the event of withdrawal of scheme, under section 47 or on the coming into force of the Local Area Plan.