India, May 22 -- The Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has effectively reduced the controversial '9 PBR Navi Mumbai' luxury housing project by Adani Realty and Mistry Construction in Sector 60, Nerul, along Palm Beach Road from nine towers to seven after finding that two towers and portions of the clubhouse partially fall within Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) limits under the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP), 2019.

The authority, however, held that Towers 2 to 8 fall outside the CRZ area and therefore outside the ambit of the CRZ Notification, 2019, after the project proponent submitted a revised layout for the non-CRZ portions of the site.

The high-end residential project is located along the environmenta...