Saturday, July 25, 2009

Lack of Planning or Foresight

Lack of Planning or Foresight: I stay in Kothrud in Pune. This area was hinterland about 20 years back. There must have probably been farms or wastelands. Then somebody got an idea of developing this area to attract investors from Mumbai who wanted second homes in Pune. Now when you are developing a new area for urbanization wouldn’t it be a good idea to develop it in a planned way. Ensure that roads are of uniform width, mostly straight line and plots are allotted accordingly?
But no. There was haphazard development leading to narrow access roads in some places, and extremely broad roads in others, plots encroaching on roads leading to twisting and turning paths, no developmental guidelines for builders building complexes within their allotted plots leading to minimal space devoted to common areas like internal roads, gardens parking spots etc. Buildings and rowhouses built as close to each other as possible so as to maximize profits rather than provide a pleasant living experience to the residents.

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