PANJIM: Goa Governor Mridula Sinha has given her assent to the Goa Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act 2018, which was passed by Goa Legislative Assembly on July 30, 2018.
The Bill allows the TCP Department to change land zoning on individual requests. It comprises three new planning tools – accommodation reservation, transferable development rights (TDR) and TDR for posterity.
As per the first tool, the notification states that it ‘means to accord a permission by the government to owner of land, that is required for public amenity specified in Development Plan or Regional Plan, by the Planning and Development Authority, municipal corporation, municipal council or village panchayat, as the case may be, to use the potential of such land in the form of built-up space guided by permissible Floor Area Ratio, in addition to the built-up space required for such amenity, in lieu of payment of compensation for such land and such amenity, transferred in favour of such authority.’
TDR means a right to transfer the potential of a land required for public purpose by the Planning and Development Authority, municipal corporation, municipal council or a village panchayat, as the case may be, expressed in terms of total permissible built-up area, for utilisation by the owner himself or transfer by him to someone else, from the present location to a specified area, as additional built-up space over and above the permissible limit in that area in lieu of the payment of compensation for such land; whereas TDR for posterity is explained as “right to sell, transfer or surrender the development right or potential of land zoned as agricultural land or land in other areas such as heritage site and the like to alternate sites as identified in the Development Plan or Regional Plan.”
