Sentence examples for a defensible space from inspiring English sources

Throughout the Kenai, people are clearing some of the 38 million dead trees, answering the call from officials to create a "defensible space" around houses for fire protection.

The state requires that residents maintain a defensible space around their houses, a hundred-foot zone cleared of flammable plants and combustible debris.

The brief was for a defensible space, with no place to hide, and no complicated elements that would be hard to maintain or easy to damage.

Homeowners living in the wildland urban interface must decide whether or not to create a defensible space around their house in order to mitigate the risk of a wildfire destroying their home.

For example, regulators could work with insurance companies to create a program whereby insurance is available to homeowners in fire-prone areas if certain criteria are met (e.g., the house is constructed to meet fire-hardening standards, there is a defensible space on the property, and the homeowner pays a fire fee for vegetation management).

+ Make your property a defensible space by clearing brush and flammable yard waste around your home.

They have taken out nearly 200 trees, creating a circular "defensible space" 200 feet in every direction from their house.

Their activities center on work, and the asymmetry of their work and life creates a vulnerable defensible space.

In 1972 an architect called Oscar Newman published a book called Defensible Space: People and Design in the Violent City, which was based on a study of crime on three New York public housing projects.

Data from Boulder County, Colorado confirm that a household's defensible space decision depends on the defensible space outcomes at neighboring sites.

Will a desire for "defensible space" radically transform the city as Americans know it?