Minutes of the 12th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee held on 08/06/07
The Monitoring Committee of CMDA recorded these minutes on 8 June 2007, covering enforcement of planning laws, regularisation of commercial buildings, road widening land required for compliance certificates, and proposed development control changes along OMR. The minutes include decisions affecting specific Chennai properties and directions to CMDA and the Chennai Corporation on unauthorised construction and court proceedings.
What the minutes cover
The minutes of the Monitoring Committee of CMDA dated 8 June 2007 record decisions and directions concerning planning enforcement and commercial building regularisation in Chennai. They are relevant to owners, promoters and buyers of the named properties, and to developments where land has been left for road widening.
The Monitoring Committee directed CMDA and the Chennai Corporation to examine serious cases of planning violations and identify officers responsible for enforcement failures. The Chennai Corporation was also asked to examine one or two zones or divisions with large numbers of development control violations and illegal constructions.
Commercial building decisions
The Monitoring Committee made or sought further information for several commercial buildings:
- Door No.135, Poonamallee High Road, Chennai-10, a ground plus four floor building, was considered completed before 28 February 1999 for regularisation, subject to alternative fire safety measures.
- Plot No.4898, Second Avenue, Anna Nagar, Chennai-40, required verification of the Metro-water and TNEB records supplied by the applicant.
- Door No.127, Gengu Reddy Road, Egmore, Chennai-8, required bank transaction details showing rent payments to help determine whether the building existed before 28 February 1999.
- Door No.56, Kodambakkam High Road, Chennai-24, was found to have evidence supporting only ground plus three floors before 28 February 1999. The fourth floor was treated as unauthorised and directed to be demolished.
- Door No.39, Montieth Road, Egmore, Chennai-8, was considered completed before 28 February 1999 for regularisation, subject to alternative fire safety measures.
- Further examination and action were proposed for 138 commercial multistoried buildings.
Property tax receipts, water tax receipts and TNEB connection records were noted as not showing the exact number or extent of floors.
Road widening and compliance certificates
The Monitoring Committee accepted that land left for road widening should be taken over by the Chennai Corporation, local body or concerned department before a compliance certificate is issued. Alternatively, the applicant or promoter must provide an undertaking that the land will later be handed over by the flat owners, residents association, shop owners or others who inherit that obligation.
The compound wall must be built after excluding the road widening land. Until handover, that land may be landscaped and enclosed with temporary grill or barbed wire fencing.
OMR proposal
The Monitoring Committee accepted a subcommittee recommendation on draft amendments permitting information technology developments along OMR up to a depth of one kilometre irrespective of land use zoning. It recommended forwarding the proposal to the Government, but the minutes do not record Government approval.
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Common questions
Does a property tax or electricity record prove how many floors existed before 28 February 1999?
No. The Monitoring Committee noted that property tax receipts, water tax receipts and TNEB meter connection records do not reveal the exact number of floors or the extent of each floor.
What was decided about the fourth floor at Door No.56, Kodambakkam High Road?
The Monitoring Committee found evidence only for ground plus three floors before 28 February 1999. It treated the fourth floor as unauthorised and directed that it be demolished.
Must road widening land be handed over before a compliance certificate is issued?
The Monitoring Committee accepted either takeover by the Chennai Corporation, local body or concerned department before certification, or an undertaking that the land would later be handed over by those who inherit the obligation.
Did the Monitoring Committee approve information technology development along OMR irrespective of land use zoning?
The Monitoring Committee accepted the subcommittee recommendation for developments up to one kilometre from OMR and recommended forwarding it to the Government. The minutes do not record final Government approval.
