MCZMA lays down 9 terms for building Thackeray memorial

The Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has laid down nine conditions to recommend to the planning authority concerned the Brihan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) revised proposal for the construction of grand memorial of Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray at the Mayor Bungalow, Dadar.

The BMC will ensure that the proposed activities in Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) areas will be as per the provisions of CRZ Notification, 2011 (amended time to time). The BMC will ensure that floor space index (FSI) for the construction in the CRZ II portion of the plot should be as per DCR existing as on February 19, 1991.

The civic body will ensure that the Mayor Bungalow would be retained and no construction is allowed towards the seaward side of original plinth. The BMC will also ensure that tree cutting for the project is restricted to minimum.

Further, it will explore the possibility of relocation of a sewage treatment plant (STP), provided there should not additional tree cutting. Debris generated during the project activity should not be dumped in the CRZ area which is mainly the Arabian Sea behind the proposed site.

BMC will ensure environment measures like STP, organic waste converter, construction and debris management, energy efficient systems are implemented as the Environment Management Plan. If total construction exceeds 20,000 sq mt, BMC will obtain environment clearance. All other required permission from different statutory authorities should be obtained.

The MCZMA recalled that it had granted CRZ recommendation through a letter dated October 22, 2018 for the proposed memorial.