In the past five months since the Supreme Court order on DCR 33/7 removed the cap on vertical development of old buildings in the island city, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has cleared redevelopment proposals from developers of 100-odd buildings, as reported in Mumbai Newsline.

The floor space index (ratio of the structure's built up area to the plot area) of the reconstructed towers will be anywhere between 2.5 and 6 as against the otherwise standard 1.33 FSI in the island city. From MHADA officials to urban planners, all concede that the haphazard redevelopment of individual structures spells the doom of urban planning.