Comprehensive master plan for Udupi city: MLA to hold consultations with stakeholders within a fortnight
Udupi MLA Yashpal Suvarna announced plans to consult stakeholders regarding a comprehensive master plan for the city, which has been lacking since 2008. The consultations will involve various local authorities and associations to gather input before finalizing the plan. The MLA emphasized the need for exemptions for property owners from single site approvals to prevent loss of land due to road widening.
- ▪The absence of a comprehensive master plan for Udupi city has caused various issues for residents since 2008.
- ▪Consultations will include officials from UUDA, Udupi City Municipal Council, and other urban planners.
- ▪The MLA proposed that owners of properties regularized under Section 94 (CC) should not require single site approval for reconstruction.
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MLA for Udupi Yashpal Suvarna said on Tuesday that absence of a comprehensive master plan for Udupi city since 2008 has been posing many problems for people. Hence he will hold consultations with all stakeholders within a fortnight to adopt the plan and get it approved by the government.Speaking after receiving petitions from people at the office of Udupi Urban Development Authority (UUDA), the MLA said that he will hold consultations with officials of UUDA, Udupi City Municipal Council, engineers’ association, builders’ association and other urban planners to take their inputs before finalising the plan.Adopting a comprehensive plan will address many issues of people, he said.The MLA said that the UUDA should exempt owners of such properties which were regularised decades ago under…
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