For an adequately planned urbanization of a city like Gandhinagar,
it is essential to identify potential sites for affordable housing,
commercial hubs, and recreational centres based on some specific
urban development criteria. These criteria have been decided
based on neighborhood concepts in urban planning. We measure
each criterion according to its importance, and then a certain
weight of each criterion is created. Geographic Information System
(GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) are the standard
techniques used for site suitability analysis at a macro level. For this
purpose, toposheets and satellite data have been used to generate
different thematic layers in ArcGIS software. GIS technology plays
a vital role in the micro-level analysis or spatial planning of sectors
such as Gandhinagar Municipality. A semi-automated system to
perform spatial land management and a built-up area calculator
have been developed by utilizing the Python script incorporated
in ArcGIS. The built-up area calculator will help in identifying
unauthorized construction. This research can assist the policy-
makers, planning officials, bring transparency across different
stakeholder groups to better understand the land parcels catering
to the ongoing developmental need and future urban growth.