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Featured · Regulation
J&K Parking Rules 2026: what stack parking must meet
Jammu and Kashmir notified its Parking Rules in July 2026. They set how cities plan, price and contract out parking, and add specific conditions for stack parking sites. Here is what they say and what they mean for a mechanical parking design.
12 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Regulation · Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam parking: area, not bays, under AP rules
In GVMC limits, the AP Building Rules 2017 set parking as a percentage of built-up area: 20% for apartments, 30% for offices and hotels, 60% for multiplexes. Since 2025 the rules also allow podium parking and extra basements with mechanical lifts on sloping sites.
23 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Regulation · Indore
Indore parking norms under MP Bhumi Vikas Rules 2012
Indore follows the Madhya Pradesh Bhumi Vikas Rules, 2012. We read the rule text for the parking counts for malls and multiplexes, how car spaces are counted by area, and what the rules say about mechanised parking.
23 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Research
EV charging bye-laws and mechanical parking in India
MoHUA's model bye-laws plan 20% of parking for EV charging, and the 2024 Ministry of Power guidelines let residents fit chargers in their own bays. Maharashtra's fire directorate bars charging points in automated towers, puzzle parking and basements. Here is how the three fit together.
23 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Regulation · Coimbatore
Coimbatore parking under TNCDBR: the Annexure IV numbers
Coimbatore follows the 2019 Tamil Nadu building rules. As a corporation, it uses the "Corporation or Municipal Areas" column of Annexure IV: a car for every two flats from 50 sqm and one car per 75 sqm above that, on a 2.5 × 5.0 m stall.
23 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Regulation · Nagpur
Nagpur parking under UDCPR: the 0.9 factor and stack rules
Nagpur uses Pune's UDCPR parking table but multiplies the result by 0.9. The same chapter sets a 2.3 × 5.8 m minimum bay for mechanised parking, a 4.5 m stilt for stacks and conditions for parking towers in the margins.
15 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Regulation · Lucknow
Lucknow and Ghaziabad: UP's 11 sqm triple-stack ECS
Uttar Pradesh's 2025 model building byelaws count a mechanically stacked car at 16 sqm for double stacking and 11 sqm for triple stacking, against 32 sqm in a conventional basement. Here is what that does to a basement, and what to confirm before relying on it.
09 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Regulation · Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: parking as a share of FSI and a 1.5× stack credit
Gujarat's CGDCR 2017 sets parking as a percentage of utilised FSI, not bays per flat. Mechanised stacked parking is credited at 1.5 times its area, and basements used for mechanised parking have no maximum height.
08 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Regulation · Gurugram
Gurugram parking: 1.5 ECS per flat and a 4.75 m height cap
Across the border from Delhi, the ECS is counted differently. The Haryana Building Code 2017 asks for 1.5 ECS per flat in group housing, gives no reduced area for stacked parking, and limits a basement or floor with mechanical parking to 4.75 m clear height.
07 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Regulation · Pune
Maharashtra's 2024 fire circular and mechanical parking
The Directorate of Maharashtra Fire Service issued parking-structure guidelines in July 2024. They set height limits, sprinkler rules and an EV-charging bar that change how puzzle, stack and tower systems are designed. Here is what applies, and what it changes on a plot.
02 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Research · Pune
How many bays a 2,000 sqm plot really yields
A car bay is 12.5 sqm on paper. Once you add the aisle, the ramp and the turning circle, a surface lot in Pune delivers one bay for every 23 to 28 sqm. Here is where the area goes, and how much of it mechanical stacking gets back.
01 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Regulation · Kolkata
Kolkata now allows mechanical parking on every floor (2025)
Until August 2025, Rule 77(3) of the KMC Building Rules 2009 allowed stack parking only at ground level. Notification 597 of 14 Aug 2025 now allows mechanical parking on all floors, two tiers or more, with FAR benefit for one tier and no back-to-back parking.
26 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
Regulation · Hyderabad
Hyderabad counts parking by area, not bays
Under the Telangana Building Rules 2012, GHMC asks for 30% of built-up area as parking for residential buildings, 40% for commercial, 60% for malls and IT complexes. A mechanical system has to prove an area equivalence, not a bay count.
21 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
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