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The Chittagong Development Authority Ordinance, 1959 (East Pakistan Ordinance)

( Ordinance NO. LI OF 1959 )

Chapter IV

POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE AUTHORITY

Outline Programme and Improvement Schemes

Width of streets
38. No street laid out or altered by the Authority shall be of less width than-
 
 
 
 
(a) forty feet, if the street be intended for vehicular traffic, or
 
 
 
 
(b) twenty feet, if the street be intended for pedestrian traffic only:
 
 
 
 
Provided as follows:-
 
 
 
 
(i) the width of an existing street need not be increased to the minimum required by this section, if the Authority consider it impracticable to do so; and
 
 
(ii) nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the Authority from laying out service passages for sanitary purposes of any width less than twenty feet.

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