Unable to develop new layouts over issues with farmers on land acquisition, the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has diverted its focus to vertical growth. It has proposed to construct apartments and group houses on the land owned by it.
Arguing that it was not deviating from its earlier resolve of developing sites, the MUDA said vertical expansion has become inevitable with land prices skyrocketing and claimed that it cannot develop sites at affordable cost, thanks to scarcity of suitable lands in and around Mysuru. Also, the 2013 order in which the buyer has to pay three times the market value of the land cost was another reason for the slowing down of horizontal growth.
Over 70,000 applications are before the MUDA seeking sites in its layouts. The last time the MUDA allotted sites was at R.T. Nagar, off Ring Road, after several years of delay.
