Mumbai: Taking exception for having multiple personal vehicles, despite insufficient parking space, the Mumbai High Court opined that a reduction in the purchase of a new car is required if people didn't have enough parking space. 

Court has expressed displeasure over the lack of a uniform parking policy in Maharashtra. Court has also observed that government should not allow people to own multiple cars if they didn’t have enough parking space. 

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni observed that the authorities should not allow families owning only one flat to have four or five cars if they do not have sufficient parking space available in their respective housing societies.

The bench has issued notice to the government and directed to file objections to the petition within two weeks. 

While hearing PIL by a Navi Mumbai resident and activist Sandeep Thakur, challenging a government notification that amended the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations Rules, permitting developers to reduce car parking space.

Petitioner has mentioned that developers do not provide sufficient parking spaces in new apartment colonies; thus it has forced the residents to park their vehicles outside the premises of the housing society.

The bench has observed that a reduction in the purchase of new cars is needed. Authorities can not permit one family to own four to five vehicles just because they can afford it and the government should cross-check if they have parking spaces or not,

"All roads are flooded with vehicles, and everywhere, 30 percent space of roads is taken away by parking on both sides. It is a common phenomenon”, the bench observed.