He said his agency, which oversees federal procurement practices, did not plan to terminate leases in buildings that do not offer deep setbacks or meet other standards.
The building is particularly mesmerizing from the Brooklyn waterfront, where it's possible to make out one of the deep setbacks that give the building its reassuringly old-fashioned feel.
Thus, he has imposed such restrictions as deep setbacks for homes beside the water, transplanting trees rather than cutting them down, large buffers between houses and streets, small lots and no paved roads.
The most expensive areas of town are in the northeastern section where grander colonials with deep setbacks on lots of an acre or more sell for between $1 million to $2 million, and housing within a walk or bike ride of the train station is in great demand.
Furthermore, all new federal buildings must now be constructed with truck-resistant barriers and with deep setbacks from surrounding streets to minimize their vulnerability to truck bombs.
We are still slowly recovering from deep setbacks that began during 2008's economic recessionThere are a number of grave cuts that were taken across the board in both the public and private sectors.
The right has suffered deeper setbacks before, and all of them have proven temporary.
He added, "A municipality could now require deeper setbacks, and we'd lose some building space with new construction".
Few of them debated whether such improvements would satisfy consumer preference for bigger lots, deeper setbacks, and multiple car garages.
Then the earth warmed, the oceans rose, and now the mine goes down in ridges hundreds of feet deep, the setbacks carved with giant shovels to keep the slopes from collapsing.
