Micah Rasmussen, Mr. McGreevey's spokesman, said the governor wants to put the finishing touches on a plan to create an environmental preservation zone in the Highlands and to begin an effort to change the state's property tax system.
But because the property is located in a historic preservation zone, every square inch of the 1921 Spanish style home had to be gut renovated from the outside in.
The entire peninsula is a biological preservation zone, especially rich in wildlife.
The good news: Yesterday, the government of the Republic of Korea (the South) officially came out in favor of turning the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates its territory from that of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the North) into an ecological preservation zone.
The particular problem with the expansion to the south is that urbanization is invading a so-called Preservation Zone (Suelo de Conservacion) that represents a territory subject to preservation given its ecological value in terms of climate regulation, water recharge, forest communities, agricultural cultivation, and hilly landscape.
Local governments have the power to preserve buildings, but in Paramus, the historic preservation zone simply requires a six-month waiting period before proposed demolitions, so the borough can explore options to preserve or move the buildings.
The analysis includes, the dynamics and main patterns of urbanization in the Preservation Zone, the description of planning norms, and a precise measurement of illegal settlements.
In this particular space, there is a process of diffused urbanization with very low densities in the Preservation Zone.
The paper concludes that this peri-urban process shows, a marked environmental damage, lack of effectiveness of planning norms and of increasing living standards of the poor, all of which show an ineffective urban governance, that does not contribute to sustainability in the Preservation Zone and in the city in general.
