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ULC IN REDEVELOPMENT: HOW AN OLD CEILING ENTRY CAN STALL YOUR FSI

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ULC IN REDEVELOPMENT: HOW AN OLD CEILING ENTRY CAN STALL YOUR FSI

2 min read · Quick Read · ULC Desk | Thane | August 2026 | ULC Series Part 15 of 20

Earlier parts followed the ULC remark through conveyance and home loans. This part follows it into the moment that matters most to a redeveloping society — the sanction of the building plan and the FSI the whole project is financed on. Redevelopment turns land into buildable area. To sanction the plan and release the incentive FSI and TDR that make the numbers work, the planning authority and the developer's own title diligence examine the 7/12. A surviving Section 20 or ULC entry shows up there as a title defect — and a defect on the title is a defect on the FSI drawn from it. Approval slows, or is made conditional on the entry being cleared. A redevelopment deal is priced on clean, marketable title and a predictable FSI. The Intimation of Disapproval, the commencement certificate and the sale component all assume the land is unencumbered. An unresolved ULC condition puts a question mark over that assumption — and a developer who discovers it mid-project will either pause, renegotiate, or push the cost of resolution back onto the society. Developers price risk. Where a ULC remark is left unresolved, the risk surfaces as a lower offer, a delayed timeline, or a premium liability quietly loaded onto the members' side of the agreement. The remark that looked dormant for years becomes live precisely when the society is most committed and least able to walk away. The sequence that avoids all of this is settled. Establish the ULC position on the 7/12 and property card before appointing a developer; resolve the Section 20 condition by paying premium under the 2019 and 2021 Government Resolutions on the surplus vacant component only — per Porbanderwalla and Huhtamaki, not the whole plot — and have the entry deleted. With the record clean, the plan sanction and the FSI proceed without the ULC brake.
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