GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRAESH

ABSTRACT
Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department – Modification to
the Zoning Regulations of approved Master Plans of Municipal Corporations and
Municipalities falling out side Urban Development Authority areas - Orders –
Issued.
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MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (H1) DEPARTMENT

G.O.Ms.No. 690 Dated:02.12.2009.

Read :-

From the Director of Town and Country Planning, Hyderabad,

Letter Rc.No.10026/2008/P3, dated:11.12.2008.

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ORDER:

The following notification will be published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette,

dated:03.12.2009.

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)

PUSHPA SUBRAHMANYAM,
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.(I/c.)
To
The Commissioner, Printing, Stores and Publications, Hyderabad for notification
in the A.P. Gazette.
The Commissioner & Special Officer, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation,
Hyderabad.
All the Vice-Chairmen of Urban Development Authorities in the State.
All the Commissioners of Municipal Corporations & Municipalities in the State
(through the Director of Town & Country Planning, Hyderabad.) with a
request to publish the same in the District Gazette and place a copy of the
notification in the Notice Board of the Municipality / Municipal Corporation
for inspection by the general public and take necessary action as per the
provisions of A.P.T.P. Rules.
The Private Secretary to Principal Secretary to Chief Minister.
The Private Secretary to Minister for MA&UD.
The Private Secretary to Chief Secretary to Government.
The Law (A) Department.
Sf/Sc.
// FORWARDED :: BY ORDER //

SECTION OFFICER

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DRAFT NOTIFICATION

The following draft variations of Zoning Regulations of approved Master

Plans of Municipal Corporations and Municipalities in the State falling outside
Urban Development Authority areas are proposed to be made in exercise of the
powers conferred under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 15 of the Andhra
Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920 (Andhra Pradesh Act 7 of 1920) as specified
in the Annexure to the order.

Notice is hereby given as required under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of

Section 15 that the said draft will be taken into consideration after expiry of fifteen
days from the date of publication of the notification in the Andhra Pradesh
Gazette and that any objections or suggestions which may be received from any
person before the aforesaid date will be considered by the Government of
Andhra Pradesh.

Objections / Suggestions should be addressed to the Principal Secretary

to Government, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department,
Secretariat, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – 22.

PUSHPA SUBRAHMANYAM,
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.(I/c.)

SECTION OFFICER

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ANNEXURE TO G.O.Ms.No. 690 , MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT (H1) DEPARTMENT, DATED: 02.12.2009.

In the said Regulation in Schedule II (zoning and other development

regulations):

(1) In Regulation 2, the following definitions shall be added at the end; namely:

2.38 Convenience Shopping Center: means premises used as a Complex for a

group of shops comprising of those dealing with day to day requirements of
the population and as distinguished from wholesale and higher order
shopping area. Each shop area shall not exceed 20 sq.mts. It includes:

• Food grain or ration shops, Kirana and general goods stores

• Tobacconists and Pan shops
• Laundry shops
• Tailors and Darning shops
• Groceries, confectionaries, general provision stores
• Departmental stores
• Bakeries and Sweet Shops
• Hair dressing saloons and beauty parlors
• Cobblers and shoe shops
• Bicycle hire, spare parts and repair shops
• Vegetable and fruit shops
• Milk and milk products shops
• Medical and dental practitioners clinics and dispensaries
• Pathological clinic/laboratories, diagnostic clinics
• Medical shops and Pharmacies
• Florists and goldsmiths
• Shops dealing with ladies ornaments. Fancy and gift items etc
• Newspapers, magazines stalls and circulating libraries
• Wood, coal and fuel shops
• Books and stationery shops
• Cloth and garments shops
• Plumbers, electricians, radio, TV and electronic equipment repair
shops
• Video libraries
• Photography, Xerox shops
• STD, ISD and local telephone booths
• Desk Top Printing (DTP) shops
• Professional Services establishments
• Professional offices
• Restaurants and eating houses
• Building materials, hardware and paints shops
• Tutorial classes, Computer education centers
• LP Gas Booking Center
• And other uses/activities as notified from time to time by the
Competent Authority

It does not mean or construe to include mulgies or row type shops or part of
premises converted into a shop or shops. Such types of developments are
discouraged in the notified General Town Planning Scheme or Master Plan
area.

2.39 Community Amenities : spaces means the areas set apart in a layout for a
shopping area, post office, bank, fair price shop, milk booth, school,
dispensary, a nursing home, child care centre, library, community hall, kalyan
mandapam, police station, local office of the Electricity board, water works,
local body and such other amenity as specified by the competent authority.

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2.40 Public Utility Building / Premises : A premises of any public service

undertaking or authority for storage, distribution, maintenance of office,
public facility network, etc., and includes overhead / underground tank, pump
house, sump, oxidation pond, septic tank, public toilets, electric sub-station,
fire-station, telephone exchange, garbage collection point, etc.

2.41 Public Facilities building / Premises : means a premises housing

community, social and cultural facilities for public like police station, post
office, telegraph office, library, auditorium, own hall, local community hall /
kalyan mandapam, recreational club, Open Air Theater, Exhibition Center,
religious building, grave yard, cremation ground, Crematorium, and includes
other services like municipal ward office and their works like swimming pool,
bal wadi, angan wadi, welfare center. etc.

2.42 Public open spaces : means the areas set apart in a land pooling scheme or
layout for parks and play grounds, duly developed and with a proper
compound wall.

2.43 Service Industry : An industry concerned mainly with repair, maintenance,

servicing and / or jobbing work with sale of operation not exceeding 20 HP
and 20 Manpower, without detriment to the amenity of the area by reason of
noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust, etc. The list of
industries in this category shall be as per the Government orders in this
regard.

2.44 Tourism based facilities : means facilities accessory to tourism undertaken

by public or private body and which the Tourism Department sponsors /
registered. It may have boarding and incidental and accessory facilities of up
to 10% of the plot area including residential facilities for essential staff.

(2) For Regulations 5 & 6, Land Use Zoning Regulations the following shall
be substituted; namely:

(I) The Land Use Zoning Regulations contain the following classification of land
uses:

1) RESIDENTIAL ZONE
2) COMMERCIAL ZONE
3) INDUSTRIAL ZONE
4) PUBLIC AND SEMI-PUBLIC ZONE
5) HILLOCKS AND ROCKS ZONE
6) HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION ZONE
7) ENVIRONMENTAL / RECREATION ZONE
8) URBANISABLE AREA OR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT ZONE

Uses permitted and prohibited in different categories of land use zones are
described against each. The uses are not to be treated as exhaustive. Similar
uses and activities may be permissible in the appropriate locations by the
Competent Authority and shall be subject to such restrictions and conditions
as may be imposed.

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1. RESIDENTIAL ZONE

USES PERMITTED USES PROHIBITED

I II
Type of use Conditions
• All types of residential buildings heavy, large and
• Group housing / Apartment extensive industries,
Complexes Obnoxious and
• Mixed use buildings provided that Non residential use shall hazardous storage
non-residential use shall not be include only convenience activities or godowns
more than plinth area of 20 shopping and doctors clinics in such mixed use
Sq.Mtrs., and professional offices. buildings,
Not allowed in plots in
Obnoxious and
approved residential layouts.
hazardous industries,
• hostels & boarding houses Minimum width of access road
• guest houses of 60 feet. Warehousing,
• dharamshalas Truck Parking,
• police posts / police stations Storage godowns of
• taxi stand/three wheeler stands perishables,
• burial-grounds/ Cremation ground hazardous and
• fire stations inflammable goods,
• water pumping station workshops for buses,
• electrical distribution station trucks etc.
• post offices Slaughter-houses,
• Bus stands cattle sheds and
dairying activity,
wholesale mandis,
• municipal, state and central Minimum width of access road
government offices of 30 feet. Hospitals/ Nursing
• public utilities and buildings except homes/ Health
service and storage yards facilities with more
• bus depots without workshop Minimum width of access road than 20 beds,
of 60 feet. Indoor and outdoor
stadiums, shooting
• library Minimum width of access road range, zoological
of 30 feet with maximum 20 garden, botanical
sq.meters plinth area. garden, international
conference centre
• auditoriums Minimum width of access road
Courts of law,
• gymnasium of 40 feet.
storage of gas
• schools Minimum width of access road
of 30 feet. cylinders
All other uses not
mentioned in Col I
• colleges Minimum width of access road
• general educational buildings other of 40 feet.
than professional
colleges/institutions
• research institutes
• technical training centre Minimum width of access road
of 40 feet with maximum 200
sq.meters plot area.
• weekly / informal markets
• bakeries and confectioneries
• Electronic printing press
• customary home occupation /
household units
• convenience shopping Minimum width of access road
of 40 feet allowed in ground
floor only with maximum plinth
area of 20 sq.meters.
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• restaurants/eating places Minimum width of access road

of 60 feet not allowed in plots in
approved residential layouts.
• night shelters
• community centres
• religious structures
• transit visitors camp
• doctors clinics and dispensaries

• Nursing homes / health facilities Minimum width of access road

with not more than 20 beds of 40 feet
• yoga centres / health clinics Minimum width of access road
of 40 feet
• petrol pumps Minimum width of access road
of 60 feet

Minimum area of 500 sq.meters

for petrol filling stations without
service facilities with minimum
all around setback of 4.50
meters not allowed in plots in
approved residential layouts.
Allowed on appeal to the
competent authority through the
Municipal Council.
• function halls Minimum width of access road
of 80 feet with minimum 1000
sq.meters plot area.

• parks/ tot lots

• plant nursery
• games facilities of local nature
both indoor and outdoor
• development of open spaces and
parks
• banks Minimum width of access road
• Showroom for sale & distribution of 40 feet not allowed in plots in
of LP Gas approved residential layouts.
• Tourism based facilities

• computer software units / IT Minimum width of access road

Enabled Service of 60 feet and not allowed in
plots in approved Residential
layouts.
• exhibition and art gallery Minimum width of access road
of 60 feet with minimum 1000
sq.meters plot area

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2. COMMERCIAL ZONE (shall apply to Local Commercial, District Commercial and

General Commercial uses)

USES PERMITTED
USES PROHIBITED
Type of use Conditions
• retail shops and retail shopping Minimum width of access road hazardous and
centers of 40 feet. extractive industrial
• banks units II,
• offices Hospitals / research
• stock exchange/financial institution laboratories treating
• bakeries and confectionaries contagious
• restaurants diseases,
• repair garages Poultry farms/ dairy
farms
• weekly market
slaughter-houses
• non polluting non-obnoxious light
sewage treatment/
industries/service establishments
disposal sites
• parking complexes storage of
• computer software units /IT perishable and
Enabled Services inflammable
• Tourism based facilities commodities.
• service establishments/ garages/ All activities which
workshops cause nuisance and
• sports and related facilities are noxious and
• conference centers obnoxious in nature.
• cinema halls and multiplexes Minimum width of access road All other uses not
of 60 feet with minimum area of mentioned in Col I
2000 sq.meters as per Cinema
Rules and Multiplexes as per
Multiplex Rules.
• function halls Minimum width of access road
of 60 feet with minimum area of
1000 sq.meters.
• Shopping Malls Minimum width of access road
• wholesale trade/markets of 60 feet.
• hotels
• colleges Minimum width of access road
• polytechnic and higher technical of 60 feet.
institutes
• research/training institute
• health facilities with maximum 200
beds
• courts
• museum
• clubs
• Sports stadium
• post offices
• water treatment plant
• railway yards/stations
• police stations/posts
• Fire Station
• taxi stand/three wheeler stands
• parking sites
• telephone exchange
• library
• public utilities and buildings
• religious buildings
• open spaces & parks
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• godowns and warehousing Minimum width of access road

• timber yards of 60 feet permitted on appeal to
• junk yards the competent authority through
• gas installation and gas works the Municipal Council.
• bus and truck depots
• guest houses Allowed on appeal to
• hostel/boarding houses Competent Authority through
• all residential uses Municipal Council.
• Residential activity on upper floors
or mixed use provided that
residential activity is not more than
40% of the built up area of the
premises
• petrol filling stations Minimum width of access road
of 60 feet.

Minimum area of 500 sq.meters

for petrol filling stations without
service facilities and minimum
area of 1000 sq.meters for
petrol filling stations with service
facilities with minimum all
around setback of 4.50 meters

In respect of commercial land use, all the sub categories such as Local Commercial,
District Commercial and General Commercial are clubbed into one category i.e.,
Commercial land use and regulations mentioned therein shall apply.

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3. INDUSTRIAL ZONE (Shall apply to Light Industrial and Heavy/ special

Industrial zone)

USES PERMITTED USES PROHIBITED

I II
• all kinds of non-obnoxious and non-
• Residential dwellings other
hazardous industries, viz.,
than those essential for
• Residential buildings for essential staff and operational and watch and
for watch and ward ward staff;
• storage of perishable and inflammable
goods • schools and colleges;
• public utilities • hotels;
• Computer software and Hardware units
• junkyards • All other industries and uses
• parking of vehicles not mentioned in Col I.
• sports/stadium/playgrounds
• loading and unloading spaces
• sewage disposal works
• warehousing
• electric power plants
• storage and depot of non-perishable and
non-inflammable commodities and
incidental use
• service stations & repair garages
• cold storage and ice factory
• cemeteries
• gas godowns, godowns & warehousing
• government/semi-government offices
relating to industries
• bus terminal; truck terminal
• banks and financial institutions
• bus depot and workshop
• helipads
• wholesale business establishments
• religious buildings
• taxi stands
• parks and playgrounds
• gas installations and gas works
• petrol filling stations with service stations
• health facilities incidental to main uses
• animal racing or riding stables
• restaurants
• workshops/garages
• dairy and farming
• public utilities and buildings
• development of open spaces & parks

In respect of Industrial zone, the regulations mentioned above shall apply to

both Light Industrial zone and Heavy / Special Industrial zone.

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4. PUBLIC AND SEMI-PUBLIC ZONE (shall apply to Institution zone)

USES PERMITTED
I II USES PROHIBITED
Type of uses Conditions
• offices Minimum width of access heavy, extensive and
• bank road of 40 feet other obnoxious and
• computer software units /IT Enabled hazardous industries,
Services on independent plots of slaughter houses,
more than 1000 sq.mt size. heavy, extensive and
• tourism based facilities other obnoxious and
• universities and specialized Minimum width of access hazardous industries,
professional educational institutions road of 60 feet wholesale markets,
• colleges dairy and poultry farms,
farm houses,
• schools Minimum width of access Processing and sale of
• research and development centres road of 40 feet farm products and uses
• polytechnics not specifically
permitted herein
• hospitals Minimum width of access
• road of 60 feet All other uses not
mentioned in Col 1
• clinics and laboratories
• dispensaries
• health/primary centres
• police station/police posts
• post offices
• police station/police posts
• post offices
• development of open spaces & parks
• open air theatre Minimum width of access
• clubs road of 40 feet
• libraries
• social and cultural institutions
• religious buildings/centres
• conference/ community halls
• museums/art galleries
• auditoriums
• retail shopping centres Minimum width of access
• Public utilities including transportation road of 40 feet
facilities
• water supply installations
• sewage disposal works
• service stations
• railway stations/yards
• bus/truck terminals
• fire stations
• burial grounds/ cemeteries/ cremation
grounds
• public utilities and buildings
• bus and railway passenger terminals
• monuments
• radio transmitter and wireless stations
• telecommunication centre
• telephone exchange
• helipads
• jails
• warehouses/storage godowns Minimum width of access
• exhibition centres road of 60 feet
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• cinema halls/Multiplexes Minimum width of access

road of 60 feet with
minimum area of 2000
sq.meters as per Cinema
Rules and Multiplexes as
per Multiplex Rules
• function halls Minimum width of access
road of 80 feet with
minimum area of 1000
sq.meters
• petrol filling stations Minimum width of access
road of 60 feet.

Minimum area of 500

sq.meters for petrol filling
stations without service
facilities and minimum area
of 1000 sq.meters for petrol
filling stations with service
facilities with minimum all
around setback of 4.50
meters.
• residential housing for staff /
employees as incidental to the main
use
• guest house
• hostels
• dharam shala

5. HILLOCKS AND ROCKS ZONE

No other activity shall be permitted except the ancillary uses.

6. HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION ZONE

No development is allowed.

7. ENVIRONMENTAL/ RECREATIONAL ZONE

USES PERMITTED UNDER SPECIAL

USES PERMITTED CIRCUMSTANCES BY THE COMPETENT
AUTHORITY
Bird sanctuary, places of worship, sports
Agricultural and Horticultural and
clubs, stadiums, play grounds, water
Children’s play spaces as Disney Land
sports, golf centers, race course, race /
type, toy trains, dairy and poultry farming,
driving testing tracks, exhibition centers,
farm houses and their accessory building
park and open spaces, storage and sale of
and uses not exceeding 200 Sq.Mtrs., of
farm products locally produced, provided
plinth area for the farmer’s own use.
the ground coverage does not exceeded
Garden, orchards, nurseries and other
10% and subject to a maximum of Ground
stable crops, grazing pastures.
+ First floor only.

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8. URBANISABLE ZONE OR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT ZONE

Residential uses, tourism based facilities and Public and Semi Public uses
other than industrial and commercial uses shall be allowed in this zone with
the prior approval of competent authority. Residential use or activity shall be
permitted subject to the following:

(i) The residential development is undertaken as an integrated

development with all facilities and amenities for the residential colony.
Incidental uses and activities like convenience shopping center,
community hall, and other support facilities may be permitted as part of
the total scheme or project.

(ii) No individual plot or site sub-division and building development in such

site sub-division shall be allowed unless this is part of a layout or group
housing scheme.

(II) BUILDING REGULATIONS:

(i) The various uses and activities mentioned in the zoning regulations and for all
types of site development and construction of buildings shall be permitted
subject to compliance of these with regard to minimum abutting road width,
and other requirements as per the provisions of the Revised Building Rules,
2008 and as amended by the Government and other instructions issued or to
be issued by the Government from time to time.
(ii) The above uses and activities shall be permitted basing on the abutting road
width criteria and other site and building requirements.
(iii) The road width given in these regulations or approved General Town
Planning Scheme or Master Plan shall be reckoned as either existing or
proposed. In case of existing roads which are required to be widened to
proposed road widths as stipulated in the statutory plan, the permission shall
be given only after the owner surrenders the area affected in road widening
free of cost to the local authority.
(iv) Statutory plan means the approved General Town Planning Scheme or
Master Plan or a Road Development Plan undertaken up by the local
authority for implementation.

(III). Prior technical approval necessary for certain type of developments or

building activity :

(i) The local authority shall ensure that prior technical approval from the
competent authority or his delegate as the case is obtained for the
following type of developments and building activity before sanctioning
these:
a. all types of activities irrespective of use in plots above 300 Sq.Mtrs., in
case of Municipalities and in plots above 1000 Sq.Mtrs., in case of
Municipal Corporations;
b. all Group Housing Schemes or Group development schemes or
apartment complexes;
c. all cases of high-rise buildings;
d. all layouts

(ii) The procedure prescribed in the Revised Building rules, 2008 shall be
followed in the above cases.

(iii) The local authority shall be responsible for ensuring that all the conditions
and requirements of the development activity or building activity that may
be imposed by the competent authority are complied with both the same
is sanctioned and released as well as at the time of issue of occupancy
certificate.
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(IV) Others:

(i) All other existing Stipulations / Rules / Regulations which are not in
conflict or in consistent with the present regulations shall continue to
be in operation.

(ii) Regarding other land uses other than the mentioned above, the
regulations as specified in the respective zoning regulations will
continue to be in operation and will apply the same.

(iii) The Government may issue guidelines and instructions to

operationalize the zoning regulations from time to time.

(iv) The Government’s decision shall be final in the cases other than the
uses mentioned in the Zoning Regulations.

PUSHPA SUBRAHMANYAM,
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.(I/c.)

SECTION OFFICER