"Service apartments" built on residential sites are mushrooming all
over the city. There is no essential difference between service
apartments and hotels and so service aprtments must be considered
commercial buildings and hence can not be permitted on residential
sites.
Secondly, many of these "service apartments" have no parking
space. For example, one such building which is about to be completed in
Yadavagiri is a 1+4 building in which the bottom floor must be, by law,
used exclusively for parking. But it is not being done. The road and the
footpath are already clogged by vehicles of patients, staff and
visitors of a nearby hospital and if we add the vehicles coming to the
service apartments, the road will be a nightmare for both vehicles and
pedestrians.
A bank had its office in the ground floor of this building about
15 years ago. Since it was the same parking space referred to above,
MCC issued a notice and the bank vacated the premises. It is not clear
why the parking space has been encroached again. Does it have the
sanction of MCC?
We hope that Mysore City Corporation takes this issue seriously and act quickly.
B.V.Shenoy, Mysore Grahakara Parishat