DDA to raise floor area ratio for hotels by up to 66%

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has decided to increase the floor area ratio (FAR) or floor space index (FSI) — the ratio of the total floor area of a building to the size of the plot on which it is built — to 3.75 for hotels outside the Lutyens zone that stand on roads with more than 30-meter width, up from existing FAR of 2.25. This means the gross floor area across different floors of such a hotel can be 3.75 times the size of the plot. In the case of hotels next to roads with width of under 30 meters (again outside the Lutyens zone), FAR is being raised to 3.25, up 44 per cent.