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October 15, 2008

Zoning

zoning - creating special areas (zones) with restricted usage

site zoned for Y

zoned for industry
zoned for housing
the land is zoned for housing

site zoned for housing
the site is zoned for strategic industrial use

zoning in the city center
zoned for industry in the council's draft development plan
zoned land use strategy

land will therefore be zoned for a use which is profitable for the owner

300 acres of prime development land already zoned for industrial and commercial uses

development plans have zoned most of the open countryside for agriculture
sites zoned by local authorities for housing development
planning and zoning regulations

land use and zoning
guidelines for zoning and land use

land use zoning
use zoning

zoning problems
a zoning pattern
a simplistic zoning pattern
careful zoning

must act within guidelines for zoning and land use
proper zoning

zoning problems
windfall gains from zoning
zoning proposals
growth zoning
zoning laws

local government responsible for zoning laws
pass zoning laws specifying a minimum size for a house

calls for a system of zoning to be drawn up
proposed expansion of the zoning scheme

comprehensive zoned development
planned zoned development
large areas were zoned for public open space by the planning authority

zoned for immediate development or for development within a specified period of five or more years

zoning off an area
zoning off the area by placing suitable warning signs or cones
zoned fares

maintaining land in residential use and seeking effective zoning controls for this

zoning restrictions in certain areas


Example sentences;

* We believe that planning authorities should try to avoid problems that result from transport generation, noise and pollution stimulated by a highly zoned land use strategy.

* In practice, development plans have zoned most of the open countryside for agriculture, so that spatial restraints have been applied to development.

* Such land may be zoned for immediate development or for development within a specified period of five or more years.

* The Friern site did not have planning permission for development, the frontage of the hospital was a listed building, and large areas were zoned for public open space by the planning authority.

* Thus while the district councils are responsible for development control, they must act within guidelines for zoning and land use established by the county.

* The group calls for a system of zoning to be drawn up in collaboration with the fishing industry.

* The Port's extensive land resources will be further developed by the construction of a major access to the County Down side of the Harbour Estate from the Holywood Road which will open up 300 acres of prime development land already zoned for port operational, industrial and commercial uses.

* But the land is zoned for housing and Southwark has a long waiting list.

* Some land will therefore be zoned for a use which is profitable for the owner, whereas other land will be zoned for a use having a low, or even nil, private value.

* The bars will be zoned according to their area, likely to be known by May.

* This could inadvertently promote a simplistic zoning pattern in local authority policies.?

* Zoning Proposals for licensed premises in the city centre.

* Finally, local government is responsible for some types of regulation, for example land use or zoning laws.

* Then they pass zoning laws specifying a minimum size for a house and its garden.

* Ironically, they are unlikely to arise on sites zoned by local authorities for housing development: such zoning can raise the price of land to as much as 40 per cent of the cost of a house.

* The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics.

* Preliminaries should usually include zoning off the area by placing suitable warning signs or cones.

* Proper zoning of the LFA is essential in order to relate levels of financial aid to degree of handicap experienced and MAFF (and WOAD's) refusal to differentiate a proper zonation is a fundamental shortcoming on their parts.

* Internally, the interests of the AWCC such as maintaining land in residential use and seeking effective zoning controls for this, lobbying for character street furniture and for historic designation and securing residential parking permits did not represent the interests of the wider neighbourhood population.

* Representatives from twenty-four predesignated districts could advise Council and the Mayor on zoning, planning, public services and other related matters.

* Industry spread over the lower-lying parts of the towns, leaving the hills for the residences of the well-to-do, but this was not a conscious piece of zoning.

* Local authorities should begin with a general review of the area concerned before work on the scheme proceeded, when the essential elements would be established: use zoning, roads, reservations and preservation of trees and protection of woodlands.

* There was merely conventional wisdom about such questions as principles of road design, use zoning, building heights and controls over the external appearance of buildings.

* The proposed expansion of the zoning scheme, which has been on trial in three city-centre wards since 1990, has already won the clear support of the police, residents' groups and the hospitals, which have become increasingly concerned about late-night disturbances and violence.

* Zoned fares have been pitched about five per cent higher than BR's, ranging from a minimum 70p standard single to a £4.90 return, with the furthest-flung commuters paying £729 for an annual season ticket.


* Mr Patrick O'Hara, spokesperson for the Ecological Study Group, claimed that the marsh land, which he described as an important area for wildlife containing 31 species of waders and wildfowl including some rare species, was zoned for industry in the council's draft development plan.

* The Boards preferred the wholesale development of rural districts (rather than piecemeal individual connections) since this reduced their costs, and they were generally able to use public meetings and written publicity to bring collective pressure on all potential consumers in a village to sign up for a supply, thus making comprehensive zoned development possible.

* Compared with earlier, politically-inspired rural schemes in countries such as France (with a larger rural vote), British rural electricity development was efficiently executed with, generally, lines of adequate capacity, planned zoned development, and the revenue, cost gap eased by a higher consumption than was common overseas.

* Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here.?

* I personally feel it's better than what's there now at the moment, it's also positioned on a a site which is now zoned for housing anyway in the district plan, erm it is providing true good quality houses in the area, we we personally feel that it's better than what's being proposed alongside here.

* Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March, after a public inquiry, on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use.

* A similar plan was turned down by Ian Lang, the Scottish Secretary, a year ago after a public inquiry, on the grounds the land was zoned for strategic industrial use.?


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