Section 257Y(2) in Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919
(2)When the land within such cheri or hutting ground or area is owned by more owners than one, each owning one or more separate plots of such land, such alignments shall as far as practicable, be so prescribed as not to occupy, within any such plot, more than one-fourth of the area thereof and shall not ordinarily be less than one hundred feet apart.