Most city chapters in UDCPR govern a city. Kolhapur's governs 42 named colonies, one row at a time, in a table that still states its dimensions in feet.
Key takeaways
- Regulation 10.9.1 sets plot sizes and margins for 42 characteristic specified areas through Table 10-B, from Rajarampuri and Shahupuri to Timber Market and Tarabai Park.
- Note 1 splits the FSI: 1.5 residential and 2.0 residential cum commercial for six of the entries, and 1.1 for all the rest.
- Note 4 sets a height ladder. Entries 1 to 3 work to the table up to 21.0 m, entries 4 to 42 up to 15.0 m, and above those heights the general marginal distance rules take over.
- Regulation 10.9.2 puts the height of any building along Kiranotsav Marg of the Mahalaxmi Temple in the Municipal Commissioner's hands, inside the listed areas and outside them.
- Kolhapur builds lower than any market in this series. On ReraGenie's registry copy captured 11 August 2026, 94 percent of Kolhapur district projects filing floor counts top out at 11 floors or fewer and the 90th percentile is 10.
A chapter made of one table
Chapter 10, Regulation 10.0, UDCPR as updated 30 January 2025 applies city specific regulations notwithstanding anything else in UDCPR. Chapter 10, Regulation 10.9, Kolhapur Municipal Corporation* uses that power for two things only, and one of them is a single sentence.
Chapter 10, Regulation 10.9.1, Open spaces, area, FSI and height limitations for characteristic specified areas in... is the substance. It says that for the characteristic specified areas listed in Table 10-B, the open spaces and the regulations for FSI and height limitations are as given in that table. Everything Kolhapur specific about plot size and margins is inside it.
That structure is worth noticing before the numbers. Pune sets height against road width across the city. Nagpur sets FSI by zone. Kolhapur names Rajarampuri, Shahupuri, Laxmipuri, Patankar Colony, Tarabai Park, Sykes Extension, Timber Market, Jawahar Nagar and 34 others, and gives each its own line.
What a row of Table 10-B actually says
| Area | Minimum plot | Front | Rear | Side |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Rajarampuri | 40 x 78 = 3120 sq.ft. (12.16 m x 23.77 m) | 10.0 (3.05 m) | 2.0 (0.60 m) | 2.6 (0.76 m) |
| 3. Laxmipuri, largest plots | 80 x 160 = 12800 sq.ft. (24.3 m x 48.64 m) | 20.0 (6.00 m) | 5.0 (1.52 m) | 5.0 (1.52 m) |
| 11. Tarabai Park | 5000 sq.ft. and above (460 sq.m.) | 15.0 (4.56 m) | 10.0 (3.05 m) | 10.0 (3.05 m) |
| 28. Timber Market | 100 x 150 = 15000 sq.ft. (30.48 m x 45.72 m) | 15.0 (4.56 m) | 15.0 (4.56 m) | 15.0 (4.56 m) |
| 29. Golibar Vasahat, K. Bavada | 40 x 40 = 1600 sq.ft. (12.16 m x 12.16 m) | 2.6 (0.76 m) | 2.6 (0.76 m) | 2.6 (0.76 m) |
Five rows out of 42, reproduced as the regulation prints them. Two things follow from the format itself.
The spread between rows is very wide. Timber Market asks for a minimum plot of 15,000 sq ft with 15 ft on all four sides. Golibar Vasahat asks for 1,600 sq ft with 2 ft 6 in. These are not variations on a standard; they are different regimes sitting in one table.
Work from the metric figure in the bracket. The imperial column uses the older feet and inches notation, so a cell reading 2.6 is paired with 0.76 m rather than with the 0.79 m that reading it as decimal feet would give. The bracketed metric value is the unambiguous one, and it is printed in every cell.
Several rows do not give a dimension at all. Entries 26, 27, 31 and 37 say that gaothan regulation applies, and entries 20 to 22 point at the special regulations of Town Planning Schemes Kolhapur No.I, No.II and No.III, with permissible maximum built-up area of 50 percent or 33 percent depending on the final plot size. For those parcels the table is a signpost rather than a standard, and the operative document sits elsewhere. Development adjacent to a gaothan covers the first case.
The FSI split hidden in Note 1
The table's columns are about ground. The FSI is in the notes underneath it, and Note 1 does most of the work in this regulation.
Maximum permissible basic FSI is 1.5 for residential use and 2.0 for residential cum commercial use for entries 1 to 3 and entries 26, 27 and 31. For all remaining areas it is 1.1, and mixed non-residential use is allowed without any restriction of percentage.
So Rajarampuri, Shahupuri and Laxmipuri, the three oldest commercial cores in the list, carry half again the basic entitlement of the other 36 named areas. The gaothan and old vasahat entries are grouped with them.
Read Note 1 with Note 3 before drawing a conclusion about what a parcel can carry. Note 3 says the maximum permissible basic FSI, permissible TDR loading and additional FSI on payment of premium shall be as allowed under these regulations. Basic FSI of 1.1 is a starting figure in the areas it covers, not a cap on total buildable area, and the loading and premium routes in Chapter 6, Regulation 6.3, Permissible FSI* still apply. Confusing the basic figure with the ceiling is the easiest way to underprice a Kolhapur parcel.
The height ladder, and where it hands you back
Note 4 is where the table stops governing.
Banded by height of the building
- up to 15.0 m, entries 4 to 42Margins as per columns 4, 5 and 6 of Table 10-B
- above 15.0 m, entries 4 to 421.0 m set-back for every 3.0 m of height on all sides except the front, for an open plot. Existing structures and ongoing projects keep front and rear set-back only, in addition to the table margins, and may take it as a step margin. Side margin per column 6 may continue up to 21.0 m.
- up to 21.0 m, entries 1 to 3Margins as per columns 4, 5 and 6 of Table 10-B
- above 21.0 m, all entriesMarginal distances as per Regulation 6.1.1(iii), 6.1.1(vi) or Regulation 6.2.3, as the case may be
Source: Chapter 10, Regulation 10.9.1, Note 4, UDCPR as updated 30 January 2025
The design is a taper. Below 15.0 m the colony table is the whole answer for entries 4 to 42. Between 15.0 m and 21.0 m a project earns extra set-back by height while keeping the table's side margin. Above 21.0 m the Kolhapur table is finished and Chapter 6, Regulation 6.2.3, Marginal Distances for Buildings of Higher Heights* or Chapter 6, Regulation 6.1.1, Residential Buildings / Residential Buildings with mixed-use* governs, exactly as it would anywhere else in the state.
That matters for feasibility work more than the individual margins do. A scheme designed to the table and a scheme designed above 21.0 m are working from different documents on the same plot.
Two pieces of ground with their own sentence
Mahadwar Chowk. Note 2 provides that properties fronting on the Mahadwar to Mahadwar Chowk Road shall be given building permission with a front set back of only 0.5 m. That is the smallest front margin anywhere in the Kolhapur entry, written for one road.
Kiranotsav Marg. Chapter 10, Regulation 10.9.2, Height of building on Kiranotsav Marg other than specified area is the chapter's other sub-regulation and it is one line: the height of a building to be constructed along Kiranotsav Marg of the Mahalaxmi Temple shall be determined by the Municipal Commissioner. Note 4(i) says the same thing for the listed areas; 10.9.2 carries it to plots outside them, which is what its heading records.
Stated plainly, that is a discretionary height on a named street rather than a number. A feasibility study on that frontage cannot be closed from the code, and the Commissioner's determination is the document to obtain.
How tall Kolhapur actually builds
Source: ReraGenie analysis of the MahaRERA project registry, 838 of 868 published Kolhapur district projects filing building floor counts, captured 11 August 2026
Fifty eight percent of Kolhapur projects that file floor counts top out at 7 floors or fewer, and 94 percent at 11 or fewer. The 90th percentile is 10 floors, the lowest of any market in this series: Nashik is 11, Nagpur 15, Thane 31, and the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation nodes 38. Only 14 projects, 1.7 percent, file a tallest building of 17 floors or more.
A ladder that changes regime at 15.0 m and again at 21.0 m therefore bites on most of this market rather than on its edge. The same clause in Thane would govern a minority of schemes.
Two limits on that chart, both worth stating. Regulation 10.9 governs the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation area, while MahaRERA records district and taluka: 590 of the district's 868 published projects are in Karvir taluka, which contains the city, with Hatkanangle at 99, Gadhinglaj at 87 and Shirol at 46. And Table 10-B reaches only the 42 named areas, not the whole Corporation, so the register cannot be read as a distribution of projects governed by the table.
What to check for a Kolhapur parcel
- Confirm the authority. 10.9 governs Kolhapur Municipal Corporation, and who signs your development permission sets out the six cases.
- Find the parcel in Table 10-B, or establish that it is not there. The two answers lead to different rulebooks, and a plot inside a named area is not governed by the general margins.
- Take the FSI from Note 1 and the ceiling from Note 3, because 1.1 basic is not the maximum buildable.
- Decide the height band before the layout, since 15.0 m and 21.0 m are where Chapter 6, Regulation 6.2.3* replaces the table.
- For a Town Planning Scheme final plot or a gaothan parcel, obtain the special regulations the table points to, then read the UDCPR FSI rulebook for everything Chapter 10 leaves alone.
Where the filings come in
The table says what may be built in Rajarampuri. The register says what was declared, built and delivered there. ReraGenie's project analysis, Rs 2,999 for one project, reads a Kolhapur project's full MahaRERA filing: the promoter's extension history with their stated reasons, the slip between original and current completion dates against the median for the same pincode, construction progress against the eleven activity checklist building by building, and complaints and litigation with case numbers. The area consolidated report covers a whole micro-market at Rs 2,999 for the first project and Rs 1,999 per additional one.
Every Kolhapur project's filing is free to read at reragenie.com/areas/kolhapur-maharashtra. For a city that uses its chapter to buy public infrastructure instead of naming colonies, see Nashik's cycle track, and the question that comes before all of this is which rulebook governs your plot.
Source: Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations for Maharashtra, UDCPR as updated 30 January 2025. Sanctioned under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966.
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