MA&UD Dept. – Draft Common Zoning Regulations – Inviting Objections and Suggestions – Issued- Reg.

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Registered No. HSE-49/2016

PART I EXTRAORDINARY

No.665 AMARAVATI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 G.601 NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

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MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION & URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT(M)

MA&UD Dept. – Draft Common Zoning Regulations – Inviting Objections and Suggestions – Issued- Reg. _____________________________________________________________ [Memo.No.2927968/M2/2025, Municipal Administration & Urban Development (M) Department, 26th September, 2025]

APPENDIX

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 44 (1) of the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Town Planning Act,1920; section 16 read with section 10(ii) of AP Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 and section 118 read with section 5(5)(b) of the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016, the following draft Common Zoning Regulations are hereby published.

Notice is hereby given that the draft will be taken into consideration after expiry of Fifteen (15) days from the date of publication of the notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette and that any objections or suggestions which may be received from any person with respect to these before the expiry of said period will be considered by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Objections or suggestions should be addressed to the Director of Town and Country Planning, A.P., Mangalagiri / Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department, Andhra Pradesh Secretariat, Velagapudi.

S.SURESH KUMAR

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

DRAFT COMMON ZONING REGULATIONS – 2025

I. INTRODUCTION

Zoning Regulations

A Master plan or Development Plan or General Town Planning (GTP) Scheme is a general plan for the future development of a city / any settlement showing both, the existing and proposed streets or roads, open spaces, public buildings, residential, commercial areas etc. and shows various land use zones intended for development.

Master Plan is a statutory document prepared under the provisions and procedures prescribed under the relevant Acts appended with the Zoning Regulations is the legal instrument for implementing the land use policy as proposed in the Master Plan.

Zoning Regulations contain a set of guidelines with regard to the permissibility of the right use and the correct location of each zone duly prohibiting the conflicting uses in order to achieve the objective of the Master Plan for orderly development of a given settlement.

Zoning is a planning control tool for regulating the built environment and creating functional real estate markets. It does so by dividing land that comprises the statutory area of a ULB into different zones, permitting particular land use on specific sites to shape the layout of towns and cities and enable various types of development. It determines the location, size, and use of buildings and decides the density of city blocks.

Need of the Zoning Regulations:

The Master Plans for various urban settlements along their vicinity areas have been prepared at different times for the past several years in the State. Zoning Regulations along with the Master Plans are also issued. It has been observed that some of the Land Use Zone Categories of the Master Plans have been shown differently in each of the Master Plans without following a uniform pattern. Due to this, there are different set of zoning regulations for different Master Plans creating complexity in understanding its applicability. This has led to difficulty among the general public, License Technical Personnel and also among the implementing agencies. Presently, the building permissions are issued through the Online Building Permission System (OBPS) on a single platform in the State. Therefore, it is difficult to customize all zoning regulations on a single platform. Hence, there is an immediate need to develop common zoning regulations for the entire State and this will help to avoid manual interpretation and intervention in the application of the zoning regulations.

Zoning regulations from other states were also reviewed in the process of preparing Zoning regulations. States like Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab,3 Karnataka, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu were taken as basis to prepare negative list of land uses.

II. Rationalisation of Land Use Categories of master plans

A systematic approach has been followed to rationalize the land uses of Master Plans which include-

(a) Comprehensive assessment to understand the commonalities of zones of each Master Plan already approved.

(b) Review of existing land use zones of other metro cities Master / Development Plans.

(c) Comparison with National Level URDPF guidelines.

(d) Consultations with town planning experts and officials of line departments.

After rationalising the land uses, the following 9 Land Use Zones are proposed for the Master Plan area.

Land Use Categories of Master Plan:

The categories of land uses proposed in the Master Plan are as follows:

LAND USE ZONES PROPOSED IN MASTER PLAN

III. Short Title, Scope, Extent & Commencement

3.1 Title

These Regulations shall be called the "Common Zoning Regulations – 2025" of Andhra Pradesh prepared under the provisions of relevant Acts in the State of Andhra Pradesh (herein after referred to as "Common Zoning Regulations-2025").

3.2 Scope of the Common Zoning Regulations

The scope of these "Common Zoning Regulations" shall be limited to defining Land Use Zones and the activities permissible in each land use zone depicted in the Proposed Land Use Plan forming part of the Master Plans. Other aspects of development will be governed by relevant Building Rules, Layout Rules etc. issued by the Government from time. Competent Authorities under such regulations shall ensure that the developments permitted by them are in conformity with these Zoning Regulations and building rules in force.

3.3 Applicability and Jurisdiction of the Common Zoning

Regulations

a. These Common Zoning Regulations will supersede all the existing Zoning Regulations relating to all Master Plans/ZDP/GTP except capital City.

b. No development activity like layout, land pooling scheme, building activity or use of any land shall be permitted unless these are in conformity with the Master Plan land use, circulation network and the zoning of the uses and activities as given in this section and the building site requirements as given in these regulations.

c. These regulations however will not prohibit the continuance of existing uses of lands and buildings that have been lawfully established and have a valid5 development permission obtained from the competent authorities as required under the prevailing statutory provisions and these Zoning and Development Promotion regulations, provided that no expansion of the existing non- conforming use or activity shall be permissible provided such conformed use is dangerous to life.

d. All the layouts approved by the competent authorities as required under the prevailing statutory provisions or plots / layouts regularized by prior to these regulations and change of land use affected by government in the immediate preceding notified Master Plan from time to time shall continue to prevail irrespective of the land use zone proposed in the Master Plan.

3.4 Date of Commencement

These regulations shall come into force on such date as notified by the Government. The implementation and enforcement of the Master Plan shall be in accordance with the Common Zoning Regulations herein prescribed.

Wherever any land use other than proposed uses is existed, clubbed with the relevant categories for implementation purpose till the revision of Master plans is taken up.

IV. DEFINITIONS

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the definition given as under shall have the meaning indicated against each term. Words and expressions not defined in these regulations shall have the same meaning or sense as in the Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920, Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act 1965, Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act, 1994, Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014, Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016, Andhra Pradesh Building Rules 2017, AP Layout Rules 2017 as amended from time to time as defined in the National Building Code as the case may be, unless the context otherwise requires. All amendments / modifications made in the aforesaid regulations shall automatically stand deemed to have been included as part of these rules.

"Accessory Use" means any use of the premises subordinate to the principal use and customarily incidental to the principal use.

"Act" means the Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920, Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 and Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016.

"Amenities" includes club house, convention halls, educational, commercial facilities, crèche, gymnasium, convenient shopping etc.,

"Appeal" Appeal against interpretation and decision of ULBs and

UDAs lies with the DT&CP. Appeal against interpretation and

decision of DTCP lies with the Government.

"Buffer area" means

(a) an area of land separating adjacent land uses that is managed for the purpose of mitigating impacts of one use on the other.

(b) an area within which sensitive uses are either restricted or prohibited.

(c) A buffer area consists of a separation distance and one or more buffer elements. Buffer element is a natural or artificial feature that mitigates an adverse impact; a buffer may include open ground, a vegetation buffer and or acoustic barrier.

"Building" means a structure constructed with any materials whatsoever for any purpose, whether used for human habitation or not and includes- (a) Foundation, Plinth, Walls, Floors, Chimneys, Plumbing and Building services, Fixed Platforms etc.

(b) Verandahs, Balconies, Cornices, Projections etc.

(c) Parts of a building or anything affixed thereto,

(d) Any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space, sign and outdoor display structures etc.

(e) Tanks constructed or fixed for storage of chemicals or chemicals in liquid form and for storage of water, effluent, swimming pool, ponds etc. (f) All types of buildings defined below shall be considered to be 'buildings' except tents, shamianas and tarpaulin shelters erected temporarily for temporary purposes and ceremonial occasions.

(i) "Assembly Building" means a building or part thereof where groups of people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious, patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes and includes buildings of drama and cinema theatres, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, marriage hall, skating rings, gymnasia, stadia, restaurants, eating or boarding houses, place of worship, dance halls, clubs, gymkhanas, road, air, sea or other public transportation stations and recreation piers.

(ii) "Business Building" means any building or part thereof used for transaction of record therefore, offices, banks, all professional establishments, court houses classified as business buildings if their principal function is transaction of business and/or keeping of books and records.

(iii) "Detached Building" means a building with walls and roofs independent of any other building and with open spaces on all sides within the same plot.

(iv) "Semi-Detached Building" means a building having one or more side attached with wall and roof with other building.

(v) "Row House" means a row of houses on adjacent plot with a common wall with only front, rear and/or interior open spaces. The house at the end of the row shall however have side open space as prescribed.

(vi) "Educational Building" means a building exclusively used for a school or college, recognized by the appropriate Board or University, or any other Competent Authority involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation incidental to educational use, and including a building for such other user's incidental thereto such as a library or a research institution. It shall also include quarters for essential staff required to reside in the premises, and a building used as a hostel captive to an educational institution whether situated in its campus or not.

(vii) "Hazardous Building" means a building or part thereof used for- (1) Storage, handling, manufacture or processing or radioactive substances or of highly combustible or explosive materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and/or producing poisonous fumes.

(2) Storage, handling, manufacture or processing of which involves highly corrosive, toxic obnoxious alkalis, acids, or another liquids, gases or chemicals producing flame, fumes, and explosive mixtures or which result in division of matter into fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition.

(viii) "Heritage Building" means a building possessing architectural, aesthetic, historic or cultural values which is declared as heritage8 building by the concerned department/notified by the competent Authority.

(ix) "Heritage Precinct" means an area comprising heritage building or buildings and precincts thereof or related places.

(x) "High-rise building" means a building with 24 meters and above (including stilt floor) in height for residential category. However Chimneys, cooling towers, Boiler rooms/Lift machine rooms, Cold storage and non-working areas in case of industrial buildings and water tanks and architectural features in respect of other buildings may be permitted as a non-high-rise building.

(xi) "Industrial Building" means a building or part thereof wherein products or, material are fabricated, assembled or processed, such as assembly plants, laboratories, power plants, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies and factories etc. The definition of category of the industry is defined as per the White, Blue, Green, Orange and Red Category industries as per the classification of industries prescribed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) from time to time.

a. Standalone Industry: A standalone industry generally refers to an independent industrial unit that operates on its own, without being part of a cluster, park, or group of industries. It is typically established outside designated industrial estates, SEZs, or clusters, and has its own infrastructure and facilities.

b. Flatted Industry: A flatted factory complex is a multistore industrial building, that is divided into smaller units for separate use-by various businesses for manufacturing, assembly and storage and located in an area of more than 0.5 ac.

(xii) "Institutional Building" means a building constructed by Government, Semi-Government organizations, public sector undertakings, registered Charitable Trusts for their public activities, such as education, medical, recreational and cultural , hostel for working women or men or for an auditorium or complex for cultural and allied activities or for an hospice, care of orphans, abandoned women, children and infants, convalescents, destitute or aged persons and for penal or correctional detention with restricted liberty of the inmates ordinarily providing sleeping accommodation, and includes dharamshalas, hospitals, sanatoria, custodian and penal institutions such as jails, prisons, mental hospitals, houses of9 correction, detention and reformatories building constructed for the promotion of Tourism such as, starred hotels, clubs, golf course, sport stadium and all activities of Tourist Unit as may be declared by Government from time to time.

(xiii) "Mercantile/Commercial Building" means a building or part thereof used as shops, stores or markets, for display and sale of wholesale or retail goods or merchandise, including office, storage and service facilities incidental thereto located in the same building.

(xiv) "Office Building" (premises), means a building or premises or part thereof whose sole or principal use is for an office or for office purposes or clerical work. Office purposes include the purpose of administration, clerical work, handling money, telephone, telegraph and computer operation; and clerical work includes writing, book- keeping, sorting papers typing, filing, duplicating, punching cards or tapes, machines calculations, drawing of matter for publication and editorial preparation of matter of publication.

(xv) "Public Building" means a building constructed by Government, Semi government organizations, public sector undertakings, registered Charitable Trust or such other organizations for their non-profitable public activities.

(xvi) "Residential Building" means a building in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes, with or without cooking or dining facilities, and includes one or more family dwellings, lodging or boarding houses, hostels, dormitories, apartment houses, flats.

(xvii) "Storage Building" means a building or part thereof used primarily for storage or shelter of goods, merchandise and includes a building used as a warehouse, cold storage freight depot, transit shed, store house, public garage, hanger, truck terminal grain elevator, barn and stable.

(xviii) "Unsafe Building" means a building which,

(a) is structurally unsafe,

(b) is insanitary,

(c) is not provided with adequate means of egress,

(d) constitutes a fire hazard,10 (e) is dangerous to human life,

(f) in relation to its existing use constitutes a hazard to safety or health or public welfare by reasons of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation or abandonment and as declared by the competent authority /sanctioning authority.

(xix) "Wholesale establishment" means an establishment wholly or partly engaged in wholesale trade and manufactures wholesale outlets, including related storage facilities, warehouses and establishments engaged in truck transport, including truck transport booking warehouses.

"Convenient shopping" means premises used for a group of shops comprising those dealing with day to day requirements, as distinguished from wholesale trade or shopping. It includes-

(a) Bicycle hire and repair shops,

(b) Books and stationery shops or stores,

(c) Cloth and garment shops,

(d) Florists,

(e) Food-grains or ration shops, each with carpet area not exceeding 50 Sq.

m,

(f) Groceries, confectioneries, and general provision shops, each with a carpet area not exceeding 50 sq. m,

(g) Hair dressing saloons and beauty parlors,

(h) Medical and dental practitioner's dispensaries or clinics, pathological or diagnostic clinics and pharmacies, each with a carpet area not exceeding 50 sq. m,

(i) Milk and milk products shops,

(j) Newspaper, magazine stalls and circulating libraries,

(k) Plumbers, electricians, radio, television and video equipment repair shops and audio/video libraries,

(l) Restaurants and eating houses each with a carpet area not exceeding 50 sq. m,

(m) Shoes and sports shops each with a carpet area not exceeding 75 sq. m,11 (n) Shop for collecting and distribution of clothes and other materials for cleaning and dyeing establishments,

(o) Shops dealing in ladies ornaments such as bangles, fancy and gift items etc.,

(p) Shops selling bakery products,

(q) Tailor or darner shops,

(r) Vegetable and fruits shops.

The above list is not exhausted and competent authority can allow convenient shopping based on the prevailing market conditions with a minimum plinth area restricted to 50 sq.mt.

"Developer" means,

(a) a person who constructs or causes to be constructed an independent building or a building consisting of apartments, or converts an existing building or a part thereof into apartments, for the purpose of selling all or some of the apartments to other persons and includes his assignees; or (b) a person who develops land into a project, whether or not the person also constructs structures on any of the plots, for the purpose of selling to other persons all or some of the plots in the said project, whether with or without structures thereon; or

(c) any development authority or any other public body in respect of allottees of

(1) buildings or apartments, as the case may be, constructed by such authority or body on lands owned by them or placed at their disposal by the Government, or

(2) plots owned by such authority or body or placed at their disposal by the Government, for the purpose of selling all or some of the apartments or plots; or

(d) an apex State level co-operative housing finance society and a primary co-operative housing society which constructs apartments or buildings for its members or in respect of the allottees of such apartments or buildings; or

(e) any other person who acts himself as a builder, coloniser, contractor, promoter, estate developer or by any other name or claims to be acting12 as the holder of a power of attorney from the owner of the land on which the building or apartment is constructed or plot is developed for sale; or (f) such other person who constructs any building or apartment for sale to the general public.

Explanation.— For the purposes of this clause, where the person who constructs or converts a building into apartments or develops a plot for sale and the persons who sells apartments or plots are different persons, both of them shall be deemed to be the promoters and shall be jointly liable as such for the functions and responsibilities specified in these rules;

"Development" means development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in or over, or under land or water or the making of any material change, in any building or land, or in the use of any building or land, and includes re- development and layout for sub-division of any land, and "to develop" shall be construed accordingly.

"Drain" means a system or a line of pipes, with their fittings and accessories such as manholes, inspection chambers, traps gullies, floor traps used for drainage of building or yards appurtenant to the buildings within the same cartilage. A drain includes an open channel for conveying surface water or a system for the removal of any liquid.

"Dwelling" means a building or a portion there of which is designed or used wholly or principally for residential purposes. This shall not include boarding or rooming houses, tents, tourist camps, hotels for other structures designed or used primarily for transient residents.

"Dwelling Unit" means a shelter consisting of residential accommodation for one family. It is an independent housing unit with separate facilities for living, cooking and sanitary requirements.

"Enforcement Authority" means the Vice Chairman of the UDAs, Municipal Commissioners of the ULBs and Panchayat Secretaries of the respective Gram Panchayats;

"Existing Building" means use of a building or a structure existing authorized before the commencement of these Regulations.

"Existing Use" means use of a building or a structure existing authorized before the commencement of these Regulations.

"Floor" means the lower surface in a storey on which one normally walks in13 a building, and does not include a Mezzanine Floor. The floor at ground level with a direct access to a street or open space shall be called the Ground Floor; the floor above it shall be termed as Floor 1, with the next higher floor being termed as Floor 2, and so on upwards. Similarly the floors below ground levels shall be termed as Basement Floor 1, Basement Floor 2 with number decreasing downwards.

"Land" includes benefits to arise out of land, things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth.

"Land Use" means the principal use of land for which a plot of land or building thereon is used or intended to be used. For the purpose of classification of a plot according to the land uses, a land use shall deem to include subsidiary land uses which are contingent upon it.

"Licensed/Town Planner/Architect/Engineer/Structural Engineer/

Supervisor" means a qualified Town Planner, Architect, Engineer, Structural Engineer, Supervisor who has been licensed by the Competent Authority under relevant rules and also called as Licensed Technical Personnel.

"Neighborhood Centre and Civic Centre" means Neighborhood Centre and Civic Center shall include following activities such as sectoral shopping center, market, office building, cinema, small hospital/Nursing Home (20 beds), playground, swimming pool, Town hall, open air theatre, civic and cultural facilities, library, higher secondary school, parking plots, public utility and service building such as post office, fire station, police station, religious building and building of public uses.

"Non-conforming Building or Use" means a building, structure or use of land existing at the time of commencement of these regulations and which does not conform to the regulations pertaining to the zone in which it is situated.

"Occupancy or Use" means the principal occupancy or use for which a building or a part of it is used or intended to be used, including contingent subsidiary occupancies; mixed occupancy building being those in which more than one occupancy are present in different portions of the building.

"Open Space" means an area, forming an integral part of the site left open to the sky and includes area left for community purposes.

"Owner" means the person who receives the rent for the use of the land or building or would be entitled to do so if they were let.

NOTE: The term Owner is synonymous with the term 'applicant'.

(a) An agency or trustee who receives such rent on behalf of the owner, (b) A receiver, executor or administrator or manager appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge of or to exercise the right of the owner,

(c) An agency or trustee who receives the rent of or is entrusted with or is concerned with any building devoted to religious or charitable purposes, (d) A mortgage of a lease holder so empowered.

"Parking Space" means an area enclosed or unenclosed, covered or open, sufficient in size to park vehicles, together with a drive way connecting the parking space with a street or alley and permitting ingress and egress of the vehicles.

"Permanent Open Air Space" means air space permanently open-- (a) If it is a street,

(b) If its freedom from encroachment is protected by any low or contract ensuring that the ground below it is either a street or is permanently and irrevocably appropriated as an open space.

(c) In determining the open air space required for construction of a building, any space occupied by an existing structure may, if it is ultimately to become a permanently open air space, be treated as if it were already such a place.

"Plot" means a portion of land held in single or joint ownership enclosed by definite boundaries other than the land used, allotted, earmarked or set apart for any street, lane, passage, pathway, conservancy lane or for any other public purpose.

"Road/Street" means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway, passageway, carriageway, footway, square place or bridge, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a specified period, whether existing or proposed in any scheme, and includes all bunds channels, ditches, storm-water drains, culverts, sidewalks, traffic islands, road-side trees and, hedges retaining walls, fences, barriers and railings within the street lines.

"Road/Street-Level or Grade" means the officially established elevation or grade of the centre line of the street upon which a plot fronts, and if there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of the street at its mid- point.

"Road/Street Line" means the line defining the side limits of a road/street.

"Service-Road" means a lane from a wider street provided at the front of a plot for service purposes.

"Utility" means roads, streets, open spaces, parks, recreational grounds, playgrounds, gardens, water supply, electric supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public works and other utilities, communication network, services and convenience.

"Village Settlement or Grama Khantam or Agraharam or Abadi"

means all lands that have been included as Agraharam/Abadi by the Government/ Collector within the site of village and includes existing village hamlets.

"Warehouse" or "Godown" means a building, the whole or a substantial part of which is used or intended to be used for the storage of goods whether for storing or for sale or for any similar purpose. It is neither a domestic nor a public building, nor merely a shop if so used not a store attached to and used for the proper functioning of a shop.

"Water Course" means a natural channel or an artificial channel formed by draining or diversion of a natural channel meant for carrying storm and waste water.

"Width of a Street / Road" means the clear average width of the existing carriage way and footpaths only on which the building or plot line abuts. The average width shall be computed by taking length of street between two extreme points on building unit abutting the street at right angles to the direction of such streets excluding the steps projections, forecourts, open areas of other spaces in front of the building erected or intended to be erected. However in case where a regular line of street is prescribed by the Competent Authority, such width shall be considered for the purpose of computing building height. And when applied to a new road/street the road width means the whole extent of space within the boundaries of a road as laid down in the City Survey or development plan or prescribed road lines by any Act or land and measured at right angles to the course or intended course of direction of such road "Zonal Development Plan" means a plan16 detailing out the proposals of Master Plan/Development Plan prepared under the provisions of the Act.

V. Land Use Zones – Allowable and Prohibited Activities

1. Residential Use Zone

In the Residential Zone, buildings or premises shall be normally permitted only for the following purposes and accessory uses.

2. Commercial Use Zone

3. Industrial Use Zone:

3a. Work Center Zones (White, Green, Blue)

3b. Orange and Red Industrial Zone

4. Public and Semi-Public Use Zone:

5. Recreational Use Zone:

6. Transportation Use Zone:

In the Traffic and Transport use zone, building or premises shall

normally be permitted only for the following purposes and accessory

uses:

7. Mixed Use Zone:

All activities permissible in Residential use, Commercial use, Public and Semi Public, Transportation, Industries except red and orange are permissible in mixed use zone. The road width for allowing the usage shall be as per the building rules issued from time to time by the Government.

8. Agricultural Use Zone:

9. PROTECTED AND DEVELOPMENT RESTRICTED

ZONE [DRZ]

9a. Special Area Zone:

3.9b. Protected Use Zone [PR]

10. Special Regulations

i. The road width required for allowing the building shall be followed as per the building rules issued from time to time by the Government.

ii. The Authority may from time to time earmark sufficient areas in residential zones, meant exclusively for Affordable housing as defined in AP Building Rules for the economically weaker sections of the society.

iii. To bring improvement in the environment, the Authority may issue special regulations from time to time.

iv. The requirement of parking shall be regulated accordingly to the particular use to which the building or premises issued in accordance with the standards specified.

v. Where it is proposed to have more than one activity in a particular building, the space regulations that will govern the development shall be based on the dominant activity in that building decided on the basis of the percentage of builtup area used.

vi. For economically weaker section Housing plots the special standards related to Affordable Housing as specified in the AP Building Rules amended from time to time shall be adhered to.

vii. The White, Green and blue category Industries are permissible in the agriculture land use zone duly collecting change of land use charges and external development charges as fixed by the Government from time to time.

viii. The registration of Builder, Developer, Society, authorized Agency or body and obtaining of license for Town Planner, Planning and Design Consultancy, Architect, Landscape Architect, Civil Engineers, Structural Engineers and Surveyors are made mandatory to practice.

ix. Notwithstanding any of the rules, the UDA/ULB reserves the right to impose any conditions/rules for the betterment of environment/ public health & safety of the population.

x. The DCR/ZR does not barred from the various Statute/Act/Rules in force of various competent authorities in public health safety point of view and it has to followed by the various public/organizations etc.

xi. The Sanctioning Authority shall retain the alignment of the Master Plan road and if not feasible, he/she is authorized to suitably modify the alignment with the prior approval of the Competent Authority within the applicant site, but deletion of the road is not allowed.

xii. Residential development shall be allowed in Agriculture zone, as part of rural development and the area shall be limited to 4.0 hectares i.e., upto 10 acres and it is permitted without change of land use duly collecting the conversion charges and external development charges as fixed by the Government from time to time.

xiii. All Educational Buildings and uses ancillary to the main use are allowed in Agriculture use zone duly collecting the conversion Charges and external development charges as fixed by the Government from time to time.

xiv. Non-Residential buildings other than orange and red category Industries are allowed in site area of 300 sq.mts & above and abutting to existing and proposed 60'00" and above wide roads duly collecting impact fee and change of land use charges as notified by the Government from time to time.

This clause is not applicable for the land uses notified as recreational use zone (Park/Open Space), hillock zone, protect zone, public utilities and industrial zone.

S.SURESH KUMAR

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT