PART I EXTRAORDINARY

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION & URBAN DEVELOPMENT (I) DEPARTMENT

Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department – Town Planning - GIS-based

Master Plan of Yemmiganur Municipality in Kurnool Urban Development Authority Region

- Sanction under Section 13 of Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development

Authorities Act, 2016 – Accorded - Orders - Issued.

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G.O.Ms.No.280, Municipal Administration & Urban Development(I) Department,

Dt.29.12.2025)

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 13 of Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan

Region and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016, the Government of Andhra Pradesh

hereby sanction the GIS-based Master Plan for Yemmiganur Municipality in Kurnool Urban

Development Authority region to an extent of 38.73 Sq km subject to the condition that the

Building Rules and Layout Rules shall be followed as per the Andhra Pradesh Building

Rules, 2017 issued in G.O.Ms.No.119, MA&UD Department, dated: 28.03.2017, and the

Andhra Pradesh Land Development (Layout and Subdivision) Rules, 2017 issued vide

G.O.Ms.No.275, MA&UD Department, dated: 18.07.2017, and subsequent amendments

thereon, respectively.

The confirmed Master Plan will be opened for perusal of the public at the offices of

the Yemmiganur Municipality in this scheme for a period of six months.

S SURESH KUMAR

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

Registered No. HSE-49/2016

No.865

AMARAVATI, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025

G.936

NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

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Contents

INTRODUCTION ................................................... 2

1.1

Zoning Regulations .................................................. 2

1.2

Land Use Categories of Master Plan ....................... 3

1.3

Applicability of the Zoning Regulations .................... 3

1.4

Short Title, Scope, Extent & Commencement .......... 4

GENERAL CONDITIONS ...................................... 4

2.1

Definitions ................................................................ 5

ZONING REGULATIONS .................................... 13

3.1

Residential Use Zone (R) ....................................... 14

3.2

Commercial Use (C) ............................................... 15

3.3

Mixed Use (M) ........................................................ 17

3.4

Industrial Use (I) ..................................................... 18

3.5

Public and Semi-Public Use (Institutional) Zone (PS)20

3.6

Public Utilities Use Zone (PU) ................................ 22

3.7

Recreational Open Space Use Zone (RE) ............. 23

3.8

Transportation Use Zone (T) .................................. 23

3.9

Agricultural Use Zone (A) ....................................... 24

3.10 Growth Corridor Zone (GC) .................................... 27

3.11 Protected Use Zone [PR] ....................................... 27

ANNEXURE ......................................................... 28

4.1

Categories of Industries / Projects / Activities ........ 28

4.1.1 RED CATEGORY ................................................. 28

4.1.2 ORGANGE CATEGORY ...................................... 31

4.1.3 GREEN CATEGORY ............................................ 35

4.1.4 WHITE CATEGORY ............................................. 37

CRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AMRUT

Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation

Andhra Pradesh

APIIC

Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Ltd

APMR&UD

Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development

APMDP

Andhra Pradesh Municipal Development Project

ASI

Archaeological Survey of India

BGL

Below Ground Level

CAP

City Action Plan

CDP

Comprehensive Development Plan

CGWB

Central Ground Water Board

DGPS

Differential global positioning system

Dhone Municipality

DZDP

Dhone Zonal Development Plan

ELU

Existing Land Use

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ERDAS

Earth Resource Development Assessment System

ESR

Environmental Status Report

FDI

Foreign Direct Investment

FIPL

Feedback Infra Private Limited

GCP

Ground Control Points

GIS

Geographical Information System

Governmental Order

GPS

Global Positioning System

GVA

Gross value added

Household

HIS

House-Hold Interview Survey

Information Technology

KMC

Kurnool Municipal Corporation

KUDA

Kurnool Urban Development Authority

MA&UDD

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department

Municipal Corporation

Master Plan

MSME

Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

MSW

Municipal Solid Waste

National Highway

Nagar Panchayat

NSDP

Net State Domestic Product

NRSC

National Remote Sensing Centre

Origin & Destination

State Highway

SWOC

Strength Weakness Opportunities and Challenges

TGO

Trimble Geomatics Office

TVC

Traffic Volume Count

ULB

Urban local body

URDPFI

Urban Regional Development Plan Formulation Implementation

Guideline

WFPR

Work Force Participation Rate

ZDP

Zonal Development Plan

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 ZONING REGULATIONS

It is a statutory document prepared under the provisions and procedures

prescribed under the relevant Acts. The Zoning Regulations are also

sanctioned along with the Master Plan. Zoning Regulations is the legal

instrument for implementing the land use policy as proposed in the Master

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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.

The following 10Development Promotion Zones [DPZ] and 02Protected use

Zone [PR] are proposed for the Master Plan areas of Kurnool.

1.2 LAND USE CATEGORIES OF MASTER PLAN

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

Table 1.1: LAND USE ZONES PROPOSED IN MASTER PLAN

S. No.

Land Use Zone Category

DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION ZONES [ D P Z ]

Residential Use Zone

(R)

Commercial Use Zone

(C)

Mixed Use Zone

(M)

Industrial Use Zone

a) Work Centre Zone (Green and White category

Industries)

(IW)

b) Hazardous /Polluting industrial Zone (Red and Orange

category Industries)

(IH)

Public and Semi-Public Use [Institutional] Zone

(PS)

Public Utilities Use Zone

(PU)

Recreational Open Space Use Zone

(RE)

Transportation Use Zone

(T)

Agriculture Use Zone

(A)

Growth Corridor Use Zone

(GC)

PROTECTED USE ZONES [ PR ]

Protected (Blue)

(PB)

Protected (Green)

(PG)

1.3 APPLICABILITY OF THE ZONINGREGULATIONS

a) 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.

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b) These regulations however will not prohibit the continuance of existing uses of

lands and buildings that have been lawfully established and have a valid

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.

c) 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

immediately preceding notified Master Plan from time to time shall continue to

prevail irrespective of the land use zone proposed in the Master Plan.

1.4 SHORT TITLE, SCOPE, EXTENT &COMMENCEMENT

1.4.1 Title

These Regulations shall be called the "Zoning Regulations for KurnoolPlanning

Area.”

1.4.2 Scope of the ZoningRegulations

The scope of these " 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 Plan. Other aspects of development will be

governed by relevant Building Rules, Layout Rules etc. issued by the Government

from time to time. Competent Authorities under such regulations shall ensure that the

developments permitted by them are in conformity with these uniform Zoning

Regulations.

1.4.3 Jurisdiction

These Zoning Regulations shall apply to KurnoolMaster Plan area in Andhra

Pradesh.

Date ofCommencement

These regulations shall come into force on such a date as notified by the

Government. The implementation and enforcement of the Master Plan shall be in

accordance with these Zoning Regulations herein prescribed.

2 GENERALCONDITIONS

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 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

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regulations shall automatically stand deemed to have been included as part of these

rules.

In these regulations the use of present tense includes the future tense, the

masculine gender includes the feminine and the neutral. The singular number

includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular. The word ‘Person’ includes

other public institutions, other agencies, and individuals. Writing includes printing and

typing, and signature includes ‘Thumb impression’ made by a person who cannot

write if his name is written near to such thumb impression.

2.1 DEFINITIONS

“Accessory Use” means any use of the premises subordinateto the principal use

and customarily incidental to the principal use.

“Act” means the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development

Authorities Act, 2016, Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act 1964.

“Amenities” includes club house, convention halls, educational, commercial

facilities, crèche, gymnasium, convenient shopping etc.,

“Appeal” Appeal against interpretation and decision of ULBs and UDA’s lies with

the DT&CP. Appeal against interpretation and decision of DTCP lies with

theGovernment.

“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 orprohibited.

c) A buffer area consists of a separation distance and one or more buffer

elements. A 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 materialswhatsoever 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, Projectionsetc.

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 structuresetc.

e) Tanks constructed or fixed for storage of chemicals or chemicals in liquid form

and for storage of water, effluent, swimming pool, pondsetc.

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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.

“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.

“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 andrecords.

“Detached Building” means a building with walls and roofs independent of any

other building and with open spaces on all sides within the sameplot.

“Semi-Detached Building” means a building having one or more sides attached

with wall and roof with other building.

“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.

“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.

“Hazardous Building”means a building or part thereof usedfor-

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.

ii.

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.

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“Industrial Building” means a building or part thereof wherein products or, material

is fabricated, assembled or processed, such as assembly plants, laboratories, power

plants, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies and factoriesetc.

“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,abandonedwomen, 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 dharmshalas, hospitals, sanatoria, custodian and

penal institutions such as jails, prisons, mental hospitals, houses of correction,

detention and reformatories building constructed for the promotion of Tourism such

as, stared hotels, clubs, golf course, sport stadium and all activities of Tourist Unit as

may be declared by Government from time totime.

"Mercantile 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 samebuilding.

"High-rise Building"means a building with 18 meters and above (including stilt

floor) in height. 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.

"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.

"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.

"Residential

Building"

means

building

which

sleeping

accommodationisprovidedfornormalresidentialpurposeswithorwithout

cooking

dining facilities, and includes one or more family dwellings, lodging or boarding

houses, hostels, dormitories, apartment houses, flats, and private garages such

buildings.

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"Heritage Building" means a building possessing architectural, aesthetic, historic or

cultural values which is declared as heritage building by theAuthority.

"Heritage Precinct" means an area comprising heritage building or buildings and

precincts thereof or related places.

"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.

"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,

e) is dangerous to humanlife,

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.

"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/videolibraries,

l) Restaurants and eating at houses each with a carpet area not exceeding 50

sq. m,

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m) Shoes and sports shops each with a carpet area not exceeding 75 sq.m,

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.

"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

alsoconstructsstructuresonanyoftheplots,

forthepurposeofsellingto

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 allotteesof -

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, colonizer, contractor,

promoter, estate developer or by any other name or claims to be acting 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

public.

Explanation- Forthepurposesofthisclause,wherethepersonwhoconstructs 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

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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 accessoriessuch as

manholes, inspection chambers, traps gullies, floor trapsused 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 or 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 theVice Chairman of UDAs,

Municipal

Commissioners of the ULBs and Panchayat Secretaries of the respective

GramPanchayats.

“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 story on which one normally walks in a

building and does not include a Mezzanine Floor. The floor at ground level with direct

access to a street or open space shall be called the Ground Floor; the floor above it

shall be termedFloor 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 the numberdecreasing 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.

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“Neighborhood Centre and Civic Centre” means Neighborhood Centre andCivic

Center shall include following activities such as sectoral shopping center, market,

office building, cinema, small hospital, 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 publicuses.

“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 thebuilding.

“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 werelet.

NOTE: The term Owner is synonymous with the term ‘applicant’.

a) An agency or trustee who receives such rent on behalf of theowner,

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 some powered.

“Parking Space” means an area enclosed or unenclosed, covered, or open,

sufficient in size to park vehicles, together with a driveway connecting the parking

space with a street or alley and permitting ingress and egress of thevehicles.

“Permanent Open-Air Space” means air space permanently open--

a) If it is astreet,

b) If its freedom from encroachment is protected by any law or contract, ensuring

that the ground below it is either astreet or is permanently and irrevocably

appropriate 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 aplace.

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“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 publicpurpose.

“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 streetlines.

“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 alllands

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 ashop.

"Water Course" means a natural channel, or an artificial channel formed by draining

or diversion of a natural channel meant for carrying storm and wastewater.

“Water Bodies”means the designated areas for flow of water such as Nallas,

Canals, Vagus, River etc. and designated areas for storage of water such as Tanks,

Cheruvu, SS Tanks etc. The measurement of all water bodies should be as per

irrigation records/revenue records and in case of any discrepancy the relevant

revenue/irrigation records stands final.

"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

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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 the 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 plan detailing out the proposals of Zonal

Plan/Development Plan prepared under the provisions of the Act.

3 ZONING REGULATIONS

In the Proposed Land Use Plan of the Master Plan, various land use zones are

proposed under two broad categories (A) Development Promotion Zone [DPZ] and

(B) Development Restricted Zone [DRZ] having their zonal boundaries as indicated

shall be regulated as per the regulations given below.

A. Under the Development Promotion Zone [DPZ], the land use zones proposed

are:

1 Residential Use Zone(R),

2 Commercial Use Zone(C),

3 Mixed UseZone(M),

4 Industrial UseZone(I),

a) Work Centre zone (Green and White Industries)

b) Hazardous /Polluting industrial zone (Red and Orange Industries)

5 Public and Semi-Public Use (Institutional)Zone (PS),

6 Public Utilities Use Zone (PU),

7 Recreational Open Space Use Zone (RE)

8 Transportation Use Zone(T),

9 Agricultural Use Zone(A)

10 Growth Corridor Use Zone (GC)

B. Under Protected UseZone [PR], the land uses proposed are:

1 Protected (Blue)

2 Protected (Green)

Except as otherwise provided, no structure or land hereinafter shall be used and no

structure shall be erected, re-erected, or altered unless its use is in conformity with

these regulations. The uses not mentioned below may be treated as prohibited

against their uses.

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The Zoning Regulations contain the following classification of broad land use zones.

These regulations specify uses that are permissible in the normal course in each

land use zone.

DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION ZONE[DPZ]

3.1 RESIDENTIAL USEZONE (R)

In the Residential use Zone, buildings or premises shall be normally permitted only

for the following purposes and accessory uses.

S. No.

Allowable Activities

Required

Road Width

3.1.1

 All residential buildings

 Apartments/Group Housing

 Group Development Schemes

 Shop cum residences

 Residential Township

3.1.2

 Hostels

 Boardinghouse

3.1.3

 Community Halls/Auditorium (Constructed by the

Government Agencies)

 Night Shelter, Dharamshala, homes for senior citizens,

orphanages,physicallychallenged/disabled/handicappe

d people, Clubs, Cultural and Philanthropic

associations of non- commercial nature.

 Community center without commercial activity

3.1.4

 Guesthouses

 Service Apartment

 Bachelor quarters

 Staff Quarters

3.1.5

 Post-offices

 Policestations

 Fire stations

 Individual Professional Offices

 Electric sub-stations

 Community toilets/Public toilets

 Disaster Risk resilience center

 Government/Semi Government/Local body office

3.1.6

 Professional establishments up to plot area of 500

sq.m

12 m

3.1.7

 Playgrounds and Play fields.

 Games facilities Indoor and Outdoor

18 m

3.1.7

 Libraries

 Gardens

 Parks

 Tot-lots

 Plant nurseries

 SPA, Beauty parlor

 Aerobic Center

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 Gymnasium

 Swimming pool

 Yoga centers / health clinics

3.1.8

 All white category industries are permissible (as per

the list enclosed in Annexure A)

3.1.9

 Tiffin centers/Restaurants/Food Courts/Curry point

 Bakeries/canteen/Juice centers

12 m

3.1.10

 Professional establishments in individual buildings

within plot area up to 500sq.m

3.1.11

 Nursery School

 Primary School

12 m

 High school

 Research institutes (non-hazardous nature)

 Technical training centers

 Tutorial Institutions

18 m

3.1.12

 Banks/ATM

 Internet café centers

12 m

 Departmental stores

 IT enabled services on independent plots

 Electronic printing press

 Computer software units

18 m

3.1.13

 Three-wheeler stands.

 Bus stops

 Vehicle parking including multilevel carparking

3.1.14

 Cell/Mobile Towers

3.1.15

 Weekly markets

3.1.16

 Religious premises (Temples, Mosques, Churches,

and other religious buildings etc.)

3.1.17

 Kalyana mandapam/Function Hall

18 m

3.1.18

 Clinic/Dispensary/Medical shops/FirstAidcenters

3.1.19

 Nursing Homes/Hospitals in the plots with not more

than 500sq.m

 Diagnosis centers in the plots with not more than

500sq.m.

12 m

3.1.20

 Diagnosis centers in the plots with 500 sq.m. to

1000sq.m

 Nursing Homes/Hospitals in the plots with 500 sq.m to

1000sq.m

18 m

3.1.21

 Petrol filling stations without service stations

18 m

3.1.22

 Retail Gas outlets/LPG (without Godown)

9 m

3.1.23

 Battery Recharge stations

9 m

* The Government is empowered to declare any potential Road for allowing

Commercial Activity subject to payment of Impact fee as Prescribed.

3.2 COMMERCIALUSE (C)

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S.No.

Allowable Activities

Required

Road Width

3.2.1

 All uses permissible in residential uses are permissible

3.2.2

 Restaurants & Bar/Canteen/Eating houses

 Hotels

 Banquet halls

 Lodges

3.2.3

 Educational institutions like Primary School

12 m

 All other educational institutions

18 m

3.2.4

 Offices

 Banks

 Financial institutions

 Stock exchanges

 Hostels

3.2.5

 Family entertainment centers

18 m

3.2.6

 Hospitals

 Bio-informatics centers

3.2.7

 Public utility buildings

 Government offices research and social services

institutions

 Govt./Semi-Govt/Local Body Offices

3.2.8

 Petrol/Gas/Diesel/Bio-Diesel filing stations with service

stations.

 Weighbridges

3.2.9

 IT Parks

 Manufacture of computer hardware

3.2.10

 Newspaper offices with printing press

 All white and green category industries are permissible (as

per the list enclosed in Annexure A)

3.2.11

 Taxi and scooter stand.

 Transport terminals viz. Bus bays/local bus stands/Bus

terminals and Depots /Railway/ Metro / BRTS

Stations/Yards

 Truck Parking

3.2.12 ^^{Cinema Theatres/Mini plex/Multiplex Such uses for public}

gathering

3.2.13

 Large scale commercial establishments

 Automobile Showrooms and Service Stations

 Wholesale shops

 Professional business establishments

3.2.14

 Malls, Hospitality including Hotels.

 Motels

 Holiday Resorts

3.2.15

 Film and allied Production Activities - Film and Video

Shooting Sites, Film Studios onLand not less than 2.5 ha

with studio and other related facilities

3.2.16  Convention Centers

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3.2.17  Kalyana mandapam/Function Hall

3.2.18

 Warehouses and other uses connected with storage of

wholesale trade incommodities.

 Wholesale markets and Mandis

 Fruit and Vegetable markets

 Meat and fish markets

 Cattle fair ground

where

minimum road

width is 18m

in respect of

municipalities

3.2.19

 Timber storage.

 Cold storages and ripening chamber

 Weighbridges

 Gas Godowns

3.2.20  Broadcasting, telecasting and telecommunication stations

3.2.21 ^^{Private helipads subject to clearance by Civil Aviation}

department

*In this zone impact fee shall be levied for all buildings other than residential as

prescribed by the government from time to time.

3.3 MIXEDUSE (M)

All activities permissible in Residential use zone are permissible in mixed use

including the following:

S. No.

Allowable activities

Required

Road

width

3.3.1

 Banks and Safe Deposit Vaults

 Business Office

 Other Commercial or Financial Institutions

(Occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.2

 Public Utility Buildings

 Government office

12 m

3.3.3

 Hotels

 Motels

 Restaurants

(occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.4

 Malls

 Holiday Resorts

 Mini plex, Multiplex, Cinema halls

 Convention centers/Kalyana mandapam /Function Hall

18 m

3.3.5

 Hostels

 Dormitories

 Boarding and Lodging houses

 Other Welfare Institutions

(occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.6

 All educational Institutions

 IT Parks

 Manufacture of computer hardware

18 m

3.3.7

 Clinics

 Hospitals

12 m

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 Dispensaries

 Nursing Homes

 Other Health facilities

(Occupying a floor area not exceeding 1000 sq.m.)

3.3.8

 Establishments and shops retailing in

o Vegetables

o Fruits

o Flowers

o Fish

o Meat

o Other daily necessities of the residents

o Departmental stores

(Occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.9

 Organized markets

 Bakeries

 Confectionaries

 Laundries

 Tailoring

 Goldsmith shops

 Hairdressing saloons

(Occupying a floor area not exceeding 500 sq.m.)

12 m

3.3.10

 Fuel filling stations without service facilities

 Automobile service stations

12 m

3.3.11

 Taxi stands.

 Car parking including multilevel parking.

 Automobile workshop with

(floor area not exceeding 300sq.m)

12 m

3.3.12

 Broadcasting, telecasting and telecommunication

stations.

 Newspaper offices with printing press

12 m

3.3.13

 All white and green industries are permissible (as per

the list enclosed in Annexure A)

12m

*All buildings except residential abutting to 18 mts. and above road width,

impact fee shall be levied as fixed by the Government from time to time

3.4 INDUSTRIAL USE (I)

3.4.1 Work Center Zones

S. No.

Allowable Activities

Required

Road

Width

3.4a.1

 All types of industriesmentioned in Annexure-

AunderGreen and White categoriesindustries.

3.4a.2

 Wholesale businessestablishments

 Warehousing&storage

 Newspaper offices with printing press

3.4a.3

 Petrol filling stations with garages and service stations

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3.4a.4

 Contractors’ plants

3.4a.5

 Parks and playgrounds

 Sports and recreation use

3.4a.6

 Public utility buildings

3.4a.7

 Restaurants

3.4a.8

 Transport terminals for goods and passengers

 Junkyards

 Taxi stands.

 Stockyards

3.4a.9

 Residential buildings for staff

 Shops, Watch and Ward staff quarters incidental to

main use

3.4a.10

 Loading and unloading space

3.4a.11

 Commercial entertainment of a transient nature like

circus

3.4a.12

 Hospitals

 Nursing homes

 Dispensary

Up to 1000

Sq.m. site

area and 18

m road

3.4a.13

 Technical and research institutions

3.4a.14

 Quarrying of Clay and Stone

 Quarrying of Gravel

3.4a.15

 Sewage farms

 Public utilities like garbage and sewage

disposalmunicipal and Government offices

3.4a.16

 Goods and Logistic Hubs

3.4a.17

 All uses that

are permissible

under Traffic &

Transportation use

3.4a.18

 Microwave towers

 Powerplants

3.4a.19

 Parking lot (including multi-level)

 Bus and truck terminals

3.4a.20

 Dairy and poultry farms

3.4a.21

 Slaughterhouse and meat processing unit

3.4a.22

 Automobile Service station

3.4a.23

 Ice and freezing plants with power

3.4a.24

 Gas Godowns

3.4.2 Hazardous /Polluting Industrial Zone (Red and Orange Industries)

S. No.

Allowable Activities

Required Road

Width

3.4b.1

 All types of industries mentioned in Annexure-

under

Red

and

Orange