I am hear that plots bordering the Northern Bypass can be converted to commercial cum residential by NCC. Anyone knows about this info?

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@ moorings: change of user of a plot is a simple application submitted by a registered planner to the local authority giving concrete reasons why the plot usage needs to change from X to Y as previously zoned by the council. A very viable reason to change from residential to commercial is when a major highway passes near the plot-as in the case of membley. For example, until a few years ago, most of upper hill was residential usage. The NCC re-zoned it to commercial usage so as to maximize land use near CBD. Therefore, plot owners will have an easier time changing the usage here from residential to commercial and vice versa.It will be hard to get a residential usage in the same area.

@moorings:once you apply for change of user, you are required to publish the intention on a national newspaper and give 2 weeks window period for whoever has issues to bring them up to the local authority. If the Runda association has issues, they will raise them then. The local authority i.e NCC has more power than the Runda association i.e it derives its powers directly from the constitution-the association derives its powers from a specific NCC bylaw. If their argument does not hold water, NCC rules the day. I believe the runda asociation also requires commercial activities of a certain kind within them-as long as you keep your commercial usage to runda association. requirements, i dont see any issues. In runda thre are many commercial ventures such as embassies, ngo offices,hotels, restaurants,guest houses, finger of god churches e.t.c