Stilt parking now mandatory for all Ghaziabad buildings

To address the issue of chaotic parking causing traffic congestion, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has embraced amendments to building bylaws introduced by the housing and urban planning department in November of the previous year. Under the new regulations, the provision for stilt parking will apply to all types of buildings, not factored into the calculation of the purchasable floor area ratio (FAR) but considered part of the building's height. The bylaw revises the permissible height of a building on plotted land less than 300 sqm, from 10m to 12.5m to allow homeowners to use the ground floor as stilt parking.

“Earlier, a two-and-a-half storey building was allowed on plotted land up to 300 sqm. Mostly, plots or homeowners used the ground floor for residential purposes. Now, the amended bylaw will allow the plot owner to use the ground floor for open stilt parking. If it is converted to covered parking, the concession given to construct an extra floor will not be applicable,” a GDA official told TOI.

He added that the new layouts will now include the changes and will soon be updated on the computerised map approval system.


The move aims to curb illegal roadside parking identified as a major problem in a traffic mobility survey commissioned by the GDA in 2018. The findings highlighted the encroachment of car spaces due to illegal parking, especially in areas like Indirapuram and Kala Pathar Road.

Kala Pathar Road experienced a significant issue with illegally parked vehicles, occupying approximately 450 car spaces at any given time. The report also highlighted similar challenges near SRS Cinema, where around 287 car spaces were affected, as well as on Swarn Jayanti Park Road and CISF Road, each witnessing the occupation of 128 car spaces due to unauthorised parking.

Inputs from TOI