I got curious about the proposed garden in survey 140/6 and started looking for this at http://www.wikimapia.org/ which is a website built on google maps and allows marking areas along with comments.
This would be an exciting development if materialzes in the near future. The location map is as below. When coming from Cosmos bank, do not turn left on Sus road after crossing the bridge but move straight further on the narrow road along the Ramnadi. Here State Bank nagar, Nikash Lawns, etc. are on the left and the site is to the right as shown in green in map below.
The area marked in magenta is proposed site for the City Pride Multiplex and Mall. search for 'Balaji Mandir Pashan' at wikimapia.org and single click the 'Garden Reservation' area to popup the comments dialog. Scroll to read the information about both the garden and the multiplex.
The survey number got me curious so I looked at a 1978 site plan of Whispering Wind (originally Sushant Coop Hsg. Society) which Mr. Sudhir Kolhatkar generously shared with me.
I scanned and enhanced the same in photoshop and it looks like below. The site plan interested me for the direct road from the bridge over Ramnadi going to Baner. Whispering Wind was bang on this road. Right-click the image below and save, then open in a viewer to see the fine text, especially the year in the lower side.
(Right-click to save your copy)Then I superimposed this 1978 site plan over a google maps view of the area:
(right-click the image above and save)Adjusting for the zoom level from google and the scale of the scanned site plan was painful. I decided to match Ramnadi while sacrificing for the bridge and Sus road which went a bit offfset.
Still I have few inferences:
(1) Ramnadi has certainly shifted its course over a period of 31 yrs. Its fine by me since we know rivers have a natural tendancy for this.
(2) Also the two islands in Ramnadi shown prominently near survey 139 have almost vanished.
The most interesting part of this site plan is the road from the bridge over Ramnadi that shows the garden in survey 140 and Whispering Wind in survey 135/2 on the same direct road.
This road has almost vanished now and State Bank Nagar, Nikash lawns, Vanshaj Prestige, etc. have come up on top of this road.
Survey 132 is the site for OJAS, Kumar Sahwas, etc. and survey 135/1 for Meadows Avenue, etc. But there is no survey indicated for sites of Athashree, Basant Bahar, Camelia, etc. This is perhaps because surveys in those days @1978 was done with the Ramnadi as reference. Pashan-Baner Link road is just the western boundaries of surveys 130, 131, 132, etc.
Later in recent times, when surveys for those sites to the left of P-B link road was done i.e. for Athashree, Basant Bahar, etc, the foot of hills was taken as reference and surveys were marked down the slope towards Ramnadi.
The line of conflict where these two systems met is the real Pashan-Baner link road in front of Whipsering Wind. A testimony to this is the stripe of land near Kumar Sahwas.
This clearly shows how the width of the Pashan-Baner Link road opposite Valenncia or Magnolia was sacrificed due to surveys done with two different references.
So whether City Pride comes to Pashan or otherwise, my pride in Pashan would always be - Whispering Wind !!
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