A group of 102 Mumbai-based architects and urban planners have opposed the development of an underground public parking lot at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse. The project is part of the state government’s plan to create a 300-acre public park at the racecourse (existing space and 170 areas of land reclaimed from the Coastal Road project).

The group, Mumbai Architects Collective, has written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, demanding urgent intervention to prevent what they have termed “a disaster unfolding in real time”, in the form of the proposed redevelopment.