India, July 17 -- The Floor Area Ratio or FAR for short is the comparison of the area of a building to the size of the land it is built on, this tells us how much we can build on a piece of land. Here is the formula: FAR = Total Built-up Area divided by Plot Area

Let me give you an example, if a piece of land is 1,000 meters and the allowed FAR is 3 then we can build up to 3,000 square meters of floor space. If the FAR is higher it means we can build more on the land maybe by adding more floors or making the building bigger. The allowed FAR varies in different places depending on things like how wide the road is, what the zoning rules are, what the land is used for and if there are things, like water, sewage and roads nearby.

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