Redevelopment eligibility checker

A society is broadly ready when it legally owns its land through conveyance or deemed conveyance, has no serious title or member disputes, has clear records, and sits on a plot whose road width and location can support additional FSI. The single sharpest test is the access road. Under the sanctioned DCPR 2034 Table 12, a road of less than 9 m leaves the plot at basic FSI only — 1.33 in the Island City, 1.00 in the suburbs. A road of 9 m and above takes the plot to permissible FSI 2.00 in both. Age helps too: an authorised building of thirty years or more qualifies for the Regulation 33(7)(B) incentive of 15% of existing built-up area, or 10 sq m per flat, whichever is more, without premium. Issues like a pending land dispute, missing conveyance, unauthorised structures or heavy FSI already consumed do not always stop redevelopment, but they must be understood and usually resolved first.

No. A road of exactly 9.00 m clears the threshold and doubles the entitlement. The sanctioned DCPR 2034 Table 12 reads "less than 9 m" for the basic band and "9 m and above but less than 12.00 m" for the next band, so 9.00 m sits in the higher band and the permissible FSI is 2.00 in both the Island City and the suburbs. Only a road of less than 9 m is capped at basic FSI — 1.33 in the Island City, 1.00 in the suburbs. The sanctioned bands are less than 9 m, 9 m to under 12.00 m, 12.00 m to under 18.00 m, 18.00 m to under 27 m, and 27 m and above. Older write-ups quoting 12.20 m, 18.30 m or 30 m are reading the draft regulation, not the sanctioned one. Note 1 to Table 12 adds a further point: if your road is at least 6 m but under 9 m today and the Development Plan proposes widening it to 9.0 m or more, the permissible FSI is that of a 9 m road.

Not permanently. Conveyance transfers legal ownership of the land and building to the society, and lenders and developers strongly prefer it to be in place. If the builder never gave conveyance, the society can apply for deemed conveyance under the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act, 1963. It is best to complete conveyance or deemed conveyance before finalising a redevelopment, so the society negotiates as the clear owner of its land.

It depends on the building. Old cessed buildings in the Island City existing before 30 September 1969 fall under DCPR 2034 Regulation 33(7) and its variants, usually with MHADA through the Mumbai Repairs and Reconstruction Board. MHADA layout buildings use Regulation 33(5). Slum rehabilitation runs through the SRA under Regulation 33(10) — not 33(14), which in the sanctioned DCPR 2034 deals with shifting cattle sheds outside Greater Mumbai. An ordinary private, non-cessed co-operative society redevelops on its Table 12 permissible FSI and can claim the Regulation 33(7)(B) incentive: extra built-up area of 15% of existing BUA, or 10 sq m per tenement, whichever is more, without premium, provided the authorised building is thirty years old or more and existing members are re-accommodated on the same plot. Several adjacent buildings can be taken together as a cluster or urban renewal scheme under Regulation 33(9). The exact scheme and FSI are always plot-specific.

Under the Government of Maharashtra's directive of 4 July 2019 issued under Section 79A of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, the process starts with a requisition from at least one-fifth of members, needs a two-thirds quorum at the special general body meeting, and requires approval by at least 51 percent of the total members. This tool does not measure consent; it checks whether the society and the plot are otherwise ready.