The much-needed provision to set up Mumbai's Parking Authority (MPA), mentioned in the Development Control and Promotion Regulations (DCPR 2034), has finally been implemented. The body, which will create a database of all parking slots in Mumbai, had its first meeting earlier this month. A team of urban planners from it have started surveying the off-street parking spaces in three pilot wards, namely: D ward (Grant Road, Nana Chowk, etc), R Central (Borivli West) and T ward (Mulund) after which they will move on to on-street parking lots.

Barring Ramanath Jha, officer on special duty, who is heading the MPA, the committee includes members from the traffic police, public representatives, officials from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) Traffic Department, representatives from the Pune-based Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, and from non-profit research organisations like World Resources Institute. The first meeting was held on December 14.