Section 408 in Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980
408. Power to regulate future construction of buildings in particular streets or localities.
(1)The Municipal Commissioner may, subject to the prior approval of the Mayor-in-Council, give public notice of his intention to declare(a)that in any street or portion thereof specified in such notice, the elevation and construction of the frontage of all buildings or any classes of buildings erected or re-erected after such notice shall in respect of their architectural features, be such as the Mayor-in-Council may consider suitable to the locality; or(b)that in any locality specified in such notice, there shall be allowed the erection of only detached or semi-detached buildings or both and that the land appurtenant to each such building shall; be of an area not less than that specified in such notice; or(c)that the minimum of building plots in particular localities shall be of a specified area; or(d)that in any locality in the notice, the construction of more than a specified number of buildings on each acre of land shall not be allowed; or(e)that in any streets, portions of streets or localities specified in such notice, the construction of any one or more of the different classes of buildings (such as residential, educational, institutional, assembly, business, mercantile, industrial storage, and hazardous buildings) shall not be allowed without the special permission of the Mayor-in-Council.(2)The Mayor-in-Council shall consider all suggestions or objections, received within a period of three months of the publications of such notice, and may confirm the declaration, or may modify it so however that its effect is not extended.(3)The Municipal Commissioner shall publish any declaration so confirmed or modified in the Official Gazette and the declaration shall take effect from the date of such publication.(4)No person shall, after the date of publication of such declaration, erect or re-erect any building in contravention of such declaration.
