Best practices of urban development and planning policies- approach and impacts

BANGALORE, INDIA :

The most important features of the plan production process, emphasizing innovative aspects.

The Revised Master Plan (RMP) for Bangalore has been unique as for the first time, the plan preparation process was outsourced to a private consortium under the Indo French Protocol with the objective of bringing in the state of the art technology in both planning and management of Bangalore Metropolitan Area. As such the plan has been innovative on several fronts (in context of the ongoing planning processes and the plans prepared so far in the country) as under: One, the RMP is based on a zoning strategy for a dynamic city fabric as against the static land use based physical plan. Two, it propagates a compact city model with future growth concentrated in the vacant parcels of the city centre (as against the existing tendency of a sprawl ) as a strategy to provide and manage efficient and cost effective amenities and facilities. Third, the plan uses state of the art data repository created on GIS and its application to understand the dynamic fabric of the city. Four, the plan preparation process incorporated a Training and Capacity Building Module to transfer the process of plan preparation as also upgrade the skills of the planning authority. Five, it uses innovative tools like the ‘Coordinated Planning Scheme’ (CPS) to facilitate plan implementation. Lastly, for the first time ever, the city and its environs were ecologically mapped to enable an environmentally sustainable development.

BANGALORE, INDIA :  5 most important initiatives executed as a result of the plan

1.GIS based data repository – complete, update to be taken up

2. Adaptation of the Zonal Regulation evolved in the plan preparation process to the building byelaws as prepared by the Local Government Agency – the Bangalore Mahanagara Palika (BMP) – ongoing

3. Rationalization of the TDR as being implemented by the BMP as against the TDR tool as laid out in the Plan and the Zonal Regulations – Ongoing.

4. Implementation of the Metro rail transport system for the city of Bangalore

Improving local and global ecology and mitigation of climate change, including reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

While the city of Bangalore does not fall in a seismic zone, given Bangalore’s unique micro climate composed of a 100 lakes, their watersheds and catchments, the planning process for the first time successfully recognizes this and has mapped the city ecologically defining the valley beds, the catchments and the watersheds as non buildable zones. The hierarchies and networks of the valleys have been established and demarcated to protect the valley systems of the city. Of course, while these have been mapped, a lot depends on the actual efficiency of the implementation process.

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