Plans to amend development regulations to allow multi-level parking

Chennai:

The city will soon graduate from basement parking to multi-level parking with the likely amendment to development regulations of Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority.

CMDA sources told Express on Friday that the High Court appointed monitoring committee, which held its meeting on Friday, discussed the need for allowing multi-level parking in the city and the need to amend development regulations.

Currently, Chennai has basement parking and which is inadequate to meet the parking requirements, sources said.

Sources said the multi-level car parking system is to maximize car-parking capacity by utilizing vertical space, rather than expand horizontally.

Interestingly, a study by CMDA on parking requirements for Chennai Metropolitan Area made many recommendations to reduce the parking problems. One of its prime off street parking strategy is the construction of Multilevel parking complexes at some critical areas, such as T Nagar, Parry's Corner, Anna Nagar, Adayar, Anna salai, Nungambakkam and Velachery. It is likely that government may go in for five multi-level parking facilities initially.