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Research, regulation and notes from the field
What we learn designing, installing and maintaining mechanical parking in India, written down with the sources, so you can check it.
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 · Bengaluru
Bengaluru: the 18 sqm bay and the 3.6 m basement
BBMP's bye-laws set the largest car bay in the country at 3.0 × 6.0 m and expressly permit multi-stage parking and silos: with a 3.6 m basement clear height and the area per car left to the authority.
16 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Chennai
Chennai parking bands and the 2025 cap on individual houses
TNCDBR 2019 scales residential parking by floor area: nothing below 25 sqm, a two-wheeler to 50, half a car to 75, a car above. In October 2025 Tamil Nadu capped what an individual house may provide.
11 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Mumbai
Mumbai's 25% visitor parking rule and redevelopment norms
DCPR 2034 asks for a quarter of the stipulated car spaces again as visitor parking, then relaxes the whole requirement for redevelopment schemes under Regulation 33. The two rules together decide most Mumbai parking plans.
06 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Research
Stack, puzzle or tower: which system fits which plot
The choice between a two-level stacker, a puzzle system and an automated tower is decided by three numbers on the plot, headroom, footprint and the number of cars, long before brand or price. A working guide to the fit.
01 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Research
Headroom: the number that decides mechanical parking
Every mechanical parking enquiry we cannot help has the same cause: the beam soffit was fixed before anyone asked. The regulations set minimums for stilts; the systems need more. Here are the numbers, city by city.
27 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Pune
Pune TOD zones: where the 50% parking cut really applies
Regulation 14.2.1.6 of UDCPR 2020 halves the parking requirement inside a notified transit-oriented development zone. Proximity to a metro station is not enough; the boundary has to be notified, and the reduction changes the yield arithmetic on every plot inside it.
22 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Company
Why we publish the Compliance Atlas and what verified means
India has no single reliable reference for parking requirements. We built one, city by city, with a rule we hold ourselves to: a figure is published only after an engineer has read it in the regulation, and every row says which clause it came from.
17 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
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