The New CDP/ Master Plan have the highlights. Yes, we are on High Tech  zone and for every zone – there needs to be sufficient infrastructure  - especially in terms of the road width.  There is no need for approaching the BDA for land conversion – BBMP can approve if the proposal meets requirement mentioned in  the Master Plan.

• anything bigger than 2400 sqft building – Rain water mandatory.
• any layouts  < 10 acres – need NOT  leave ANY space for park and CA. LW is more than 10 acres .
• Municipality has made it mandatory to area cover the construction site with TIN sheets and Plastic sheet.
• Service apartments identified in master plan. To be permitted on roads with 12 m width – Our main avenue is 11m.
• Parks and open spaces in the layouts are leased to the Associations for maintenance.
• A Hi-tech zone that permits industrial format non-polluting industries such as services industries, campus styled related Information Technology. ( this is related to the road width)
• The FAR and Ground Coverage (GC) are in relation to the plot  size and the road widths specific to each zone.
• For more than one building on a given site, the setbacks between the two buildings are 1/3rd the height of the taller of the two.

More importantly - Commercialization is dependent upon the infrastructure - Our roads are not more than 25 Feet in width. We have no parking facility. 

Visit BDA's Website - Master Plan Brochure  

News Item which appeared on the bangalore BlogSpot is below ...

Your city will be bigger & cleaner

Bangalore: Flexible, regulative, accommodative and simple. This sums up the zonal regulations provided by the Masterplan 2015.

The new zonal regulation is all set to unleash realty development. While the city is bursting at its seams, the BDA has reworked zoning regulations that accommodate the needs of the city — parking, additional FAR and goodies for need-based commercial exploitation.

The city till date had restrictions on floor area ratio (FAR), which was in the range of 1.25 to 1.75, depending on zone and road width. Now this has been enhanced to 3.25.

In corridors of and BMTC terminals, the FAR can go up to 4. This rule will now allow commercial exploitation and also ridership for the mass transport system, explained BDA commissioner M K Shankarlinge Gowda.

Another important regulation is the creation of mutation corridor, which means one plot depth facing the designated road that could gain higher FAR of of 3 with a minimum 30 metres road width. This means that main roads of residential localities can have commercial activities in a restricted manner.

“We have seen commercialisation of residential localities leading to all kinds of chaos. It is inevitable for such activities to come up in these areas, as it is need-based. So we thought it is better to allow such activities but with riders. The riders are placed in such a fashion that movement of traffic is not affected. We want malls, multiplexes, super-market or any kind of commercial activity to uniformly come up. We are seeing such activities in Indiranagar, Koramangala or Jayanagar.’’

Another development is that people need not come to BDA for land use change permission. The masterplan has it all and the permission can be obtained in the BBMP. The zonal regulations also provides for re-development of central areas by mooted additional FAR as incentive. Owners of small properties can amalgamate and construct a single complex with more built-up space, explained town planning memberB Mahendra.

Transfer of development rights (TDR) has been introduced as part of zoning regulations. The green belt area, which used have only education institutions is opened for health facilities and golf courses. Around 20 per cent of the area coming under this zone can now be used for such activities.