Parking is counted in Equivalent Car Spaces. These rules fix how many you need, how big each is, and what the ramp that reaches them may do.
How many parking spaces must I provide?
Parking @ 1.5 ECS per 100 m² of built-up area; minimum 1 ECS per residential unit mandatory in all projects; EWS minimum 0.5 ECS per 100 m². Parking floor height ≤3.00 m residential / 4.00 m other uses. (ECS areas 23/28/32 m² per Appendix-1 note.)
Appendix-7 (2022) Reg 10 — and 7 related rules below.
The rules — all 8
Parking provision (Real Estate Projects)
verbatim
Parking @ 1.5 ECS per 100 m² of built-up area; minimum 1 ECS per residential unit mandatory in all projects; EWS minimum 0.5 ECS per 100 m². Parking floor height ≤3.00 m residential / 4.00 m other uses. (ECS areas 23/28/32 m² per Appendix-1 note.)
Appendix-7 (2022) Reg 10· Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
Ecs per 100m2
1.5
Min per unit
1
Ews per 100m2
0.5
Ecs m2
{"open":23,"stilt":28,"basement":32}
Parking floor max h m
3
Parking floor
verbatim
One parking floor mandatory wherever feasible (height ≤3.00 m residential, shear walls on 3 sides — not a soft storey). Only ONE parking floor FAR-exempt. Fee payable.
Appendix-1 General Reg 5–6· Appendix-1 (general buildings) · Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
Max h res m
3
Visitor parking
verify
Provide visitor parking ≥10% of required ECS, near the entrance, outside setback drives.
URDPFI/NBC practice (10%) — verify· Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
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0.1
Two-wheeler parking
verify
Two-wheeler bays ≥15% of ECS count (1 ECS ≈ 4 two-wheelers @ 1.5 m² each incl. aisles).
NBC 2016 Part 11 practice — verify· Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
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0.15
Per ecs
4
EV-ready parking
verify
20% of parking capacity EV-ready (conduit + power provision); ≥1 community fast charger.
MoHUA Model Building Bye-laws (EV amdt. 2019) — verify· Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
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0.2
Parking ramp gradient
verify
Car ramps ≤1:8 (1:10 desirable), width ≥3.0 m single / 6.0 m double, transition slopes at ends; ramp to stilt floor ≈ 24 m at 1:8 for a 3.0 m rise.
NBC 2016 Part 11 — verify· Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
Max gradient
8
Desirable
10
Width single m
3
Width double m
6
Driveways & turning radius
verify
Internal driveways ≥6.0 m two-way / ≥3.6 m one-way; car turning radius ≥7.2 m; dead-end aisles need reversing bays.
NBC 2016 Part 11 — verify· Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
Two way m
6
One way m
3.6
Turning radius m
7.2
Loading bay (commercial)
verify
Commercial floor area above 500 m² requires a dedicated loading/unloading bay (3.5 × 7.5 m) off the circulation drive.
NBC 2016 Part 11 — verify· Appendix-7 (projects over 2,500 m²)
Trigger m2
500
Bay
3.5×7.5 m
6 of these 8 were encoded from secondary
sources rather than read off the gazetted text — they carry a “verify” tag above.
The engine applies them and the substance is believed correct, but confirm the exact figure
against the notification before you build to it.
Worked example — a 500 m² plot on a 9 m road
Computed live by the same engine that produces the drawings — not a stored example.
Drawn square for clarity. A real tatima is not square — that is what the tracer is for.
Regime
Appendix-1 (General Building)
FAR
1.75
Setbacks (F / R / sides)
3 / 2 / 2 m
Buildable footprint
319 m²
Height cap
21 m
Storeys
3
Permissible built-up
875 m²
Parking required
9 ECS
500 m² × FAR 1.75
= 875 m² permitted.
The 319 m² footprint over
3 storeys could hold
956 m², so FAR is the
binding constraint — the height allowance is not fully usable here.
Sources on this page
Appendix-7 (2022) Reg 10
Appendix-1 General Reg 5–6
URDPFI/NBC practice (10%) — verify
NBC 2016 Part 11 practice — verify
MoHUA Model Building Bye-laws (EV amdt. 2019) — verify
