Calling such takings a "public use" under the Constitution solely because they increase tax revenues to a city strains credulity.
In San Diego, however, the rate freezes were lifted just as the city strained under a heat wave.
As part of the real estate boom, colleges and universities have been erecting new buildings around the city, straining town-gown relations.
The attack was reminiscent of the Palestinian intifadas, or uprisings, of past years and appeared likely to inflame a city strained by tensions.
"Clearly you get a sense of a city straining, certainly in some areas," said Doug Turetsky, chief of staff of the city's Independent Budget Office.
The city's Democratic mayor, Bill Peduto, had asked the White House to consider "the will of the families" before visiting — as well as the resources of a city straining under the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
TV antennas were beginning to sprout on rooftops like spindly metallic weeds, the alternate-side parking minuet was just being choreographed and air raid sirens still rumbled daily at noon in 1955 when New Yorkers paused briefly to contemplate a city "strained almost to bursting" after the "tensest quarter century" in its history.
The UN said all hospitals in the city, straining to deal with hundreds of wounded Palestinians over the past few days, had been without mains electricity for 48 hours and were depending on back-up generators, which were close to failing.
Ask any major city straining to stay in compliance with federal air quality regulations.
This is a salvation for a city straining to comply with federal air quality regulations.
Tens of thousands of workers poured into the city, straining the economy, infrastructure, and public works.
