Floor Area Ratio is the total built floor area permitted on a plot, as a multiple of the plot itself. These are the rules that set it, and the ones that decide what does not count towards it.
CGDCR tables FSI separately for each development authority — AUDA for Ahmedabad, SUDA for Surat, VUDA for Vadodara, RUDA for Rajkot, JADA, BADA and others, each in its own table. There is no single Gujarat FSI figure. Find the authority your plot falls under before reading any number below.
CGDCR-2017 Part II, Tables 6.5 to 6.12 — and 7 related rules below.
CGDCR tables FSI separately for each development authority — AUDA for Ahmedabad, SUDA for Surat, VUDA for Vadodara, RUDA for Rajkot, JADA, BADA and others, each in its own table. There is no single Gujarat FSI figure. Find the authority your plot falls under before reading any number below.
Base FSI 1.8 free, plus 0.9 chargeable at 40% of the jantri rate, giving a maximum of 2.7. This is the figure for Residential Zone I in the AUDA, RUDA and JADA tables alike, so it is the ordinary residential case across those authorities — but it is a per-authority table, not a state-wide rule, and other authorities should be checked.
| Base FAR | 1.8 |
| Premium FAR (max) | 0.9 |
Base FSI 1.2 free, 0.6 chargeable, maximum 1.8.
| Base FAR | 1.2 |
| Premium FAR (max) | 0.6 |
Base FSI 0.3 and no chargeable FSI at all, so 0.3 is the maximum. The most restrictive residential zone in the AUDA table by a wide margin.
| Base FAR | 0.3 |
Base FSI 2.0 with no chargeable FSI, so 2.0 is the maximum. Applies to the Core Walled City and to Gamtal, the old village settlement areas.
| Base FAR | 2 |
Base FSI 1.8, chargeable 0.9, maximum 2.7 — the same as Residential Zone I.
| Base FAR | 1.8 |
| Premium FAR (max) | 0.9 |
Base FSI 1.8 with 3.6 chargeable, giving a maximum of 5.4 — the highest in the AUDA table, and the only zone where twice the base is purchasable on top.
| Base FAR | 1.8 |
| Premium FAR (max) | 3.6 |
In a Transit Oriented Zone the base is that of the underlying zone and the maximum is 4.0, with the chargeable component as applicable.
| Base FAR | 4 |
Permissible floor area, coverage and height for your plot — straight from the HP slabs.
FAR & ground coverage calculator →Official text: Comprehensive General Development Control Regulations, 2017 (CGDCR-2017) — Part II, Planning Regulations ↗
Rules change and we would rather hear it from you than have somebody build to a stale number. No account needed.
Trace your tatima to get the real area, side lengths and a dimensioned plan. Automatic compliance checking runs on Himachal rules today — for Gujarat the 52 rules published here are the reference, and the check is yours to make.
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