garage that costs rs 2 lakh das said the rising cost of garage space notwithstanding builders claim it is only in the highend projects that they can recover costs with development cost of covered car park at plinth or ground level at rs 18002000 a sq ft and basement at rs 3000 a sq ft an average car parking space of rs 335 sq ft should cost rs 658 lakh but the actual price is rs 35 lakh garage space is subsidized if viewed as an isolated component of a project though parking space does not recover the construction cost it makes sense for developers to provide additional parking space as that is what the societal demand is in fact the biggest challenge before us developers is the inability to provide adequate parking space due to restrictions in building and environment rules said harsh patodia chairman of the kolkata chapter of confederation of real estate developers association of india while the current rules require providing one car park for an apartment size of 1070 sq ft the actual demand for a 12001500 sq ft apartment is for two car parks but since the floor space index or the development allowed by the civic authority is fixed and does not make any special allowance to make more parking builders are facing a challenge such is the complexity of the parking issue that merlin group director sushil mohta says in suburban projects in places like uttarpara and konnagar as well as areas in rajarhat he first calculates how many car parking slots he can build and then accordingly constructs the number of flats we are avoiding basement parking because construction cost escalates we cannot provide adequate surface parking either because environment laws in big projects place curbs on paved and semipaved area to make provision for greenery parking will become an ever bigger challenge in future said primac group director siddharth pansari jhunjhunwala whose highend projects are very much dependent on provision of adequate parking has opted for multilevel basement and mechanical parking to resolve the space crunch but while it may work in luxury condos where home buyers can fork out astronomical sums former credai india vicepresident santosh rungta feels the civic authority has to usher in the concept of multilevel neighbourhood parking facilities to solve the riddle