i. Residential Development Plan means a plan containing proposal for construction of residential buildings on a plot measuring more than 2 ha submitted by applicant for approval.
ii. Non-Residential Development Plan means a plan containing proposal for construction of non-residential buildings on a plot measuring more than 1.2 ha submitted by applicant for approval.
2.41 Drains/ Halla: means natural valleys intended for flow of storm water /rain water.
2.42 Drainage: means the removal of any waste liquid by a system constructed for this purpose.
2.43 Dwelling Unit means an independent housing unit with facility for living, cooking and sanitary requirements, etc.
2.44 Existing Building: means an building or a structure existing before the commencement of these regulations
2.45 Existing Use: means use of a land existing before the commencement of these regulations.
2.46 Exhibition Ground: means an open premises for a temporary event of exhibiting products of companies, and includes a fair and related facilities like displays, snack bars, joy rides etc.
2.47 Flatted Factory: means a premises having gƌoup of non‐hazaƌdous small industƌial units permitted under household industries and light industries, having not more than 50 ǁoƌkeƌs and these units maLJ be located in multi‐stoƌeLJed industƌial buildings.
2.48 Floor: means the lower surface in a storey on which one normally walks in a building. The geneƌal teƌŵ ͚flooƌ͛ unless specificallLJ mentioned otheƌǁise does not ƌefeƌ basement or cellar floor and mezzanine floor.
2.49 Floor Area: Means the area in each floor considered for calculating the FAR utilised in the building.
2.50 Floor Area Ratio (FAR): means the quotient of the ratio of the combined gross floor area of all floors, except the areas specifically exempted under these regulations, to the total area of the plot, viz.
2.51 Forest: Means a land parcel classified as Reserve Forest or Protected Forest or Deemed Forest or Village Forest and declared by the Forest Department.
2.52 Front: as applied to a plot or site; means the portion facing the road and in case of plot abutting on more than one road and/ or road/ street with different widths, the front shall be the side facing the wider road providing the entry and exit to the plot.
2.53 Frontage: means the width of any plot or site or land parcel abutting the access/public road.
2.54 Gramathana: Shall mean all land that has been included as Gramathana within the revenue village map/ record published by Government before the publication of these regulations.
2.55 Garage: means a structure designed or used for the parking of vehicles.
2.56 Gas Godown: Means the premises where cylinders of cooking gas are stored.
2.57 Godown/ Warehouse: means premises for exclusive use of storage of goods and commodities in a manner as per the requirement of the respective commodities. The premises may be open space or covered apace and includes related loading and unloading facilities by road transport or rail transport, as the case may be.
2.58 Government: means the State Government of Karnataka.
2.59 Ground Floor: means the floor immediately above the level of the adjoining ground level on all sides having approach directly from the road or above the basement floor.
2.60 Ground Coverage: means the total area covered by building immediately above the plinth level excluding the exemptions specifically provided under these regulations.
2.61 Group Housing: means apartment building or group of apartment buildings on a minimum plot size of 2000 sqm or more with one or more floors and with one or more dwelling units in each floor. The Plot for Group Housing shall not be located on road less than 12 m wide. If they are not approachable directly from the road, they shall be connected by an access of not less than 7.5 m in width and not more than 30 m in distance.
2.62 Group Housing Scheme: means development of a group of residential blocks in a site, which may be apartments or other type of residential like detached, semi-detached, row type or a mix of the above, and for permitting these shall comply with the conditionality as detailed out in these regulations.
2.63 Guidance Value: means the value of the land/ building fixed by the Department of Stamps & Registration as per the provisions of the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957.
2.64 Heavy industry: means an industry employing more than 500 workers.
2.65 Height of Building: means the vertical distance measured from the average level of the ground around and contiguous to the building to the top of the roof in case of flat roofs and in the case of sloped roofs up to the point where the external surface of the outer wall intersects a finished surface of the sloping roof at the eave level excluding the exemptions specifically provided in these regulations.
2.66 Heritage Building: means a building possessing architectural, aesthetic, historic or cultural values, which is declared as Heritage building by the Planning Authority or any other Competent Authority within whose jurisdiction such building is situated.
2.67 Heritage Precinct: means an area comprising heritage building or buildings and precincts thereof or related places which is declared as such by the Planning Authority or any other Competent Authority within whose jurisdiction such area is situated.
2.68 Heritage Zone: means a zone delineated in RMP-2031 that requires special attention in terms of heritage conservation and regulated as per the Guidelines provided in these regulations.
2.69 High-rise Building: means a building/ structure with height of 15.0 m and above.
2.70 Hospital: is a premise providing medical facilities of general or specialized nature for treatment of indoor and outdoor patients having more than 30 beds.
2.71 Hostels: Means premises where food and lodging are provided for students, trainees and certain groups of workers.
2.72 Hotels: A premises used for lodging on payment, with or without boarding facilities.
2.73 Integrated Residential Schools: A premises having educational and playing facilities for students up to XII standard and also having boarding facilities for students and faculty members.
2.74 Industrial Building: means a building wholly or partly used as a factory, for the manufacture of products of all kinds and related activities including fabrication.
2.75 Junk Yard: means premises for covered, semi covered or open storage including sale and purchase of waste goods, commodities and materials.
2.76 Kalyana Mantapa/ Marriage Halls: means premises where marriages, social and religious functions are conducted with cooking facilities.
2.77 Land Use: includes the purpose to which the site or part of the site or the building or part of the building is in use or permitted to be used by the Competent Authority on any specified date. Land use includes zoning of land use as stipulated in the Revised Master Plan and the Zonal regulations.
2.78 Layout: means subdivision of one or more plots, held in one ownership or joint ownership, by laying out roads for the formation of building sites and earmarking area for park and open spaces, civic amenity sites, public utilities, parking etc as per the provisions of Section 17 of the KTCP Act, 1961 / Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976.
2.79 Layout Plan: means a plan of the layout drawn to scale showing individual building sites, residential, non-residential or industrial, as the case may be, along with roads, park and open spaces, civic amenity sites, public utilities, parking etc.
2.80 Licensed Architect: means an Architect who is registered with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Pallike or any other Competent Authority and is allowed to function within Bengaluru Metropolitan Area.
2.81 Licensed Engineer: means an engineer who is registered with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Pallike or any other Competent Authority and is allowed to function within Bengaluru Metropolitan Area.
2.82 Licensed Town Planner: means a Town Planner who is registered with the Competent Authority. The Town Planner shall have a minimum qualification of Masters in Planning.
2.83 Lakes: means, inland water – body irrespective of whether it contains water or not, mentioned in revenue records as kere.
2.84 Local Planning Area: Means the extent of jurisdiction of Bangalore Development Authority as notified by Government under the provisions of KTCP Act, 1961.
2.85 Master Plan: means Revised Master Plan, 2031 prepared for the Local Planning Area of Bengaluru Metropolitan Area and approved by the Government under the provisions of Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961.
2.86 Motor Repair Garage / Service Station: Means premises for servicing and repair of automobiles and other allied activities. A service station besides having sale of petroleum products includes servicing of automobiles and other allied activities.
2.87 Multilevel Car Parking (MLCP): means multilevel structure used for vehicle parking connected to all floors by means of ramps or mechanical elevators, subject to Fire
Clearance. MLCP can be an independent structure or part of a building with other land uses.
2.88 Multiplex: means, a building housing an entertainment and cultural centre including cinema theatres, restaurants, food courts, shops etc as defined in Karnataka Cinema Regulations Act, 1964. The development of such buildings shall be governed as per the provisions of Karnataka Cinema Regulations Act, 1964.
2.89 Museum: Means a premise with facilities for storage and exhibition of objects illustrating antiques, natural history, art etc.
2.90 Non-Conforming Use: means a use of land, building, or premises which is not a use permitted by the provisions of these regulations for the zone in which such land, building or premises is situated, and which is legally in existence at the time of passage of these Regulations.
2.91 Non-Conforming Building: means a building which does not conform to all the applicable provisions of these Regulations, and which is legally in existence at the time of approval of these Regulations.
2.92 Non-Conforming Site: means a site which does not meet the requirements of the applicable provisions of these Regulations for the zone in which it is presently located but which was legally in existence as a site of record in the present land use map.
2.93 Nursing Home: means, a pƌemises haǀing medical facilitLJ foƌ in‐patient and outpatient patients, providing up to 30 beds.
2.94 Office Buildings: Means a premise used for the offices of government / local body / public undertaking or a public / private corporation and may include accessory facilities.
2.95 Obnoxious and Hazardous Industries: Means an industry defined/ classified as Obnoxious and Hazardous Industries as per Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and/ or Central Pollution Control Board which will create nuisance to the surrounding development in the form of smell, smoke gas, dust, air pollution, water pollution and other unhygienic conditions, and may include the followings:
i. Storage, handing, manufacture or processing or radio – active substances or of highly combustible or explosive materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and / or producing poisonous fumes or explosions.
ii. Storage, handing, manufacture or processing or which involves highly corrosive, toxic obnoxious alkalis, acids, or a other liquids, gases or chemicals producing flame, fumes , and explosive mixtures or which result in division of matter into fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition.
2.96 Occupancy or use: Means the principal occupancy or use for which a building or a part of it used or intended to be used, including contingent and subsidiary occupancies; mixed occupancy building being those in which more than one occupancy are present in different portions of the building.
2.97 Open Air Theatre: Means a place where theatre and concert performances are held in open air. It may include a stage and seat open to sky.
2.98 Owner: ͚Oǁneƌ͛ means a peƌson, group of persons, accompany, trust, institute, Registered body, State or central government and its attached subordinate departments, Quasi Government, Public or Private Undertakings or corporations and the like, in whose name the property stands registered in the revenue records.
2.99 Park: A premises that is kept open to sky and is used for leisure, recreational activities, it may have a related landscaping, parking facilities, public toilet, fence etc. It includes synonyms such as lawn, open space, green, etc.
2.100 Parking Space: means an area enclosed or unenclosed, covered or open sufficient in size to paƌk ǀehicles togetheƌ ǁith a dƌiǀe‐ǁaLJ connecting the paƌking space ǁith a street or any public area and permitting the ingress and egress of the vehicles.
2.101 Plinth: means the portion of a structure between the surface of the surrounding ground and surface of the floor immediately above the ground.
2.102 Plinth Area: means the built up covered area of the building.
2.103 Plinth Level: means the level of the floor of a building immediately above the surrounding ground. Plinth level should not exceed above 1.2m above average ground level.
2.104 Plot: means a continuous portion of land held in one ownership.
2.105 Prescribed: means prescribed by a set of rules or regulations or byelaws as notified by Government.
2.106 Professional Office: means an Office of recognized professions such as doctors or physicians or dentists (no patient is hospitalized or housed overnight), lawyers, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects, artists, musicians, designers, teachers, authors, and others who are qualified to perform, with or without staff, personal services of a professional nature.
2.107 Public and Semi-Public Building: means a building used or intended to be used either ordinarily or occasionally by the public and owned by State or Central Government or Quasi Government or Local Authorities such as offices, religious institutions (a church, temple, chapel, mosque or any place of public worship), educational institutions (college, school), health institutions, library, cultural and recreational institutions/theatres of non-commercial nature, public concert room, public hall, hospital run by public institutions, public exhibition hall, lecture room or any other place of public assembly and Government hostels.
2.108 Public Utilities Buildings: Means a premises housing infrastructure / utilities like water, electricity, drainage and sewerage, telephone exchange, radio / TV / Microwave station.
2.109 Ramp: Means passage with gradual slope joining two level surfaces
2.110 Recreational Club: is a premise used for assembly of a group of persons for social and recreational purposes with all related facilities.
2.111 Repair Shop: is a premise similar to retail shop for carrying out repair of household goods, electronic gadgets, automobiles, cycles etc.
2.112 Research Institution: Means a premise providing facilities for research and development in any specific field. It may include laboratories, library, and allied facilities.
2.113 Restaurant: means a place used for serving food items on commercial basis including cooking facilities, with covered or open space or both having seating arrangement.
2.114 Retail Shop: is a premise for sale of commodities directly to the Consumer with necessary storage.
2.115 Right of way (RoW): is the width of land acquired or proposed for the Road, along its alignment. It should be adequate to accommodate all cross sectional elements of the road and may reasonably provide for future development.
2.116 Road / street Line: Means the line defining the side limit of a road / street
2.117 Road Width’ means the right of way/ distance between the boundaries of the property on either side of the road including, carriageway, footways, service road at same level or at different level and storm water drains as laid down in the city survey or Master Plan or the prescribed road lines by any act of law and measured at right angles to the course or intended course of direction of such road.
Note: In case of sites at T junction or at the intersection of multiple roads, the width of the road parallel to the site shall be considered.
2.118 Row Housing: means more than one residential buildings in a row attached to each other with only front, rear and interior open spaces.
2.119 Service Apartment: means fully furnished room or suite or rooms with kitchen, which is intended to be used on rental basis.
2.120 Service Road: means a road / lane provided adjacent to a plot (s) for access or service purposes as the case may be and shall be parallel to the main road and may or may not be at grade with the main road and shall be partly or fully falling within the proposed RoW of the proposed road.
2.121 Services: means activities incidental to the land use of the building such as electrical sub‐station, electƌical panel ƌoom, geneƌatoƌs, HVAC (Heating, Ventilation & Aiƌ conditioning) facilities, plumbing and sanitary facilities, STP, refrigeration and cold storage, firefighting facilities, building management systems, car park management facilities and similar such activities.
2.122 Set back: means the distance prescribed under these Zonal Regulations between the plot boundary and the plinth of the building or the covered Cantilever projection of the building in any floor. If cantilever projection of the building is proposed, the prescribed setback shall be provided between the plot boundary and such covered cantilever projection except for exemptions specifically provided under these regulations.
2.123 Site: means a parcel of land enclosed by definite boundaries having a means of access.
2.124 Special Development Zone: means areas of special control identified and demarcated in RMP 2031 envisaged as zones for implementation of high density integrated developments with special provisions covered under these regulations.
2.125 Stilt Floor (Ground Level Parking): means a floor consisting of columns, used only for vehicle parking. The clear height of the stilt floor i.e. from the floor to the bottom of the slab/ beam, whichever is lower, shall be a minimum of 2.4 m and shall not exceed 2.7 m. The height shall be considered for calculating the total height of the building. In case of mechanical or multi-level parking the maximum height shall not exceed 4.75 m.
2.126 Structure: means anything constructed or erected the use of, which requires location on, under or above the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground. Fences, swimming pools and their ancillary equipment, sheds, above ground fuel tanks, vending machines, and play equipment that is permanently attached to the ground are considered to be structures.
2.127 Staircase Room: means a room accommodating the stairs and for purpose of providing protection from weather and not used for human habitation.
2.128 Telecommunication Tower: means a structure designed and intended to support antennas. This term includes lattice-type structures, either guyed or self-supporting, and monopoles, which are self-supporting pole-type structures, tapering from base to top and supporting fixtures designed to hold one or more antennas.
2.129 Wholesale: An area where goods and commodities are sold or, delivered to retailers, the premises include storage/ godown, loading and unloading facilities.
2.130 Zonal Regulations: means zoning of land use and regulations prepared under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961 prescribing the uses permissible in different land use zones, setbacks around building, ground coverage, floor area ratio, height of building, building lines, parking and so on, for regulated development of the areas within the Local Planning Area
Note: The definitions not covered in this regulation shall have same meaning as defined in relevant Acts or Rules passed by Government of Karnataka and National Building Code.