Transferable Development Rights (TDR) is a zoning tool that allows landowners to transfer unused development potential from one area to another, often as compensation for preserving land or heritage sites. 🏛️

In metro cities like Mumbai, TDR plays a crucial role in urban development by balancing growth and conservation. 🏗️

With limited land availability, TDR enables developers to acquire additional building rights, encouraging high-density projects in designated zones while protecting ecologically sensitive or historically significant areas. 🏡

This mechanism has shaped Mumbai’s skyline, facilitating infrastructure upgrades and slum redevelopment, though its implementation often sparks debates over equity and urban planning efficiency.

Through this simplified thread, we have tried to explain the concept of TDR lucidly.

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