OCCUPANCY

(30) Occupancy of Buildings - 

(1) The occupancy of any building or part thereof shall be governed by the usage of plots for development or redevelopment according to the provisions contained in the development plan or detailed town planning scheme prepared for the area. 

(2) All buildings, whether existing or hereafter proposed, shall be classified, in one of the following occupancies, according to the se of character of occupancy, namely: - 

Note: - 
(i) Any building not specifically covered by any of the occupancies under sub rule (2) shall be in the group which most nearly resembles its existing or proposed use. 

(ii) Any building which accommodates more than one use under sub rule (2) shall be included under the most restrictive group. 

(3) The description of occupancies are given below, namely: - 

(a) Group A1 - Residential building shall include any building which sleeping accommodation is proved for normal residential purposes, with cooking and or dining facilities. They shall include one or multifamily dwellings, apartment houses or residential flats. Small professional offices or space for advocates, doctors, engineers, architects, charters accountants, computer professionals, typists, electrical or electronic equipment service professionals, not exceeding 50 sq. metres are and used as part of principal residential occupancy are also included in this group. 

(b) Group A2 - Special Residential building shall include all lodging or rooming houses, dormitories, tourist homes, hostels and orphanages with conference halls, community halls, dining halls or assembly rooms which together have as assembly capacity of not more than 100 persons at the rate of 1.50 Sq. metre per person. Crèches, day care centres, children's nursery, reading rooms and libraries, the built up area of which do not exceed 150 Sq. metres, whether housed in separate buildings or part of buildings. 

(c) Group B - Educational building shall include any building or part thereof exceeding 150 Sq. metres of built up area used for school, college or other institutions for education and or research if carried on for more than eight hours per week and includes any appurtenant assembly not exceeding a strength of 100 persons at the rate of 1.5 Sq. metres per person and recreation not covered under Group D. 

(d) Group C - Medical or Hospital building shall include any building or part thereof exceeding 150 Sq. metres of built up area used for purposes such as medical or other treatment or care of persons suffering from physical of mental illness, disease or infirmity, care of infants, convalescents or aged persons. Hospitals, sanatoria, clinic, homes for the aged and the infirm, convalescent homes, mental hospitals are included in this group. 

(e) Group D - Assembly building shall include any building or part of a building, where group of people exceeding 100 at the rate of 1.5 Sq. metres per person congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious, patriotic, political, civil, travel and similar purposes, hotels, theatres, motion picture houses or cinemas, assembly halls for educational, dramatic or theatrical presentation, auditoria, wedding halls, community halls, exhibition halls, art galleries, museums, libraries, skating rings, gymnasiums, places of worship and religious congregation, dance halls or club rooms, passenger stations or transport terminals, recreation piers, amusement park, structures, viewing stands, ground stands, stadia and circus tents are included in this group.

(f) Group E - Office or business building shall include any building or part of a building having a total built up are of more than 150 Sq. metres which is used for accommodating offices of public or private agencies for the keeping or records, accounts and similar purposes, Local, State and Central Government office buildings and buildings for private business office purposes constructed by the private sector, offices of quasi-Government agencies, buildings for the use of defence purposes, court houses, public utility buildings, prisons or jails are included in this group. 

(g) Group F1 - Mercantile or commercial building shall include any building or part of a building which is used for display and sale of merchandise such as shops, stores, markets, either wholesale or retail. Banking and financial institutions, public and private business houses, professional establishment of doctors, dentist, engineers, architects, lawyers, pathological laboratories, tailor-shops, video- shops, barbershops, beauty parlours, new stands, milk booths, restaurants and non-nuisance type of small establishments like armature wining shops using power motor or machine of capacity not exceeding above 300 Sq. metres area having same use does not fall in this groups. 

Notes: - 
(1) Buildings not exceeding 150 sq. meters of built up area accommodating the use under group C, D, and E are included in F1 group. 

(2) Minor merchandising operation in buildings primarily mean for other uses shall be covered by the group under which the predominant occupancy is classified.
 
(h) Group F2 - Mercantile or commercial building shall include all buildings under group F1 exceeding 300 Sq. metres of built up area and exceeding three floors from ground level. 

(i) Group G1 - industrial buildings shall include any building or part of a building or structure in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed but does not include any building or part of a building of small industrial unit include in group G2. 

(j) Group G2 - Small industrial building shall include any building or part of a building or structure in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated assembled or processed by a small industrial unit. Note:- Small industrial unit is an industrial unit not included in Schedule I of the Factories Act, 1948 or an industrial unit classified as a small industry by Government form time to time 

(k) Group H - Storage buildings shall include any building or part of a building used primarily for the storage or sheltering (including servicing, processing or repairs, incidental to storage) of goods, wares or merchandise (except that involve highly combustible or explosive products or materials), vehicles and those like warehouses, freight depots, transit sheds, store houses, garages, grain elevators, burns and silos. Minor storage incidental to other occupancies SHALL BE treated as part of the predominant occupancy. 

(l) Group I (1) - Hazardous building shall include any building or pat of a building which is used for purposes which create air and sound pollution of minor nature and or producing effluents which does not cause very adverse, environmental effects. Automobile wash stalls, automobiles are included in this group. Poultry farms with more than 10 but not exceeding 20 hens or ducks, diary with more than 2 but also included in this group. 

(m) Group I(2) - Hazardous building shall include any building or part of a building which is used for the storage, handling, manufacturing toxic or noxious materials or products or any products or materials producing dust. They shall include, 
(i) Buildings and yards use for storage under pressure of more than 1 Kg/cm2 and in quantities, exceeding 70 m3 of acetylene, hydrogen illuminating and natural gases, ammonia, chlorine, phosgene, sulphur dioxide, methyl oxide and all gases subject to explosion, fumes or toxic hazard; 
(ii) Storage and handling of hazardous and highly inflammable or explosive materials other than liquids, gas bottling plants, petrol and diesel storage tanks; 
(iii) Storage and handling of hazardous and highly inflammable or explosive materials other than liquids, gas bottling plants, petrol and diesel storage tanks; 
(iv) Manufacture of plastic goods, synthetic leather, ammunition, explosives and fire works; 
(v) Crematoria, burial grounds, garbage dumping yards, abuttoirs (slaughter houses), sewerage treatment plants, petrol filling stations, coal, wood and timber yards with saw mills. 
(vi) Poultry farms having more than 20 hens or ducks, dairy farms having more than 6 cattle, kennel having more than 6 dogs.