Sentence examples for fight development from inspiring English sources

We lobby leaders to fight development, aiming to protect old buildings and precious views, limit crime and traffic, and maintain high-quality schools.

Invoking the name of one of the world's most famous trout streams to fight development has been used before — with success.

"It's hard to imagine a more inappropriate location for a commercial building of this size and bulk," said Bernard D'Orazio, president of Save Our Space, a community group formed to fight development.

Tomorrow, a chat will be offered with Micha X. Peled, the director of the documentary; Al Norman, of Sprawl-Busters, a group that helps residents fight development in their area; and a Wal-Mart representative.

California employs a wide arsenal to fight development: fees, taxes, environmental restrictions, water permits, restrictive zoning, carbon dioxide emission considerations, union pressure, and property owners who use political connections to restrict the supply of new product for the market so as to drive up the value of their own property.

An advocacy group working to fight development at Banning Ranch is hosting a community meeting Thursday in Costa Mesa.

But the Nature Conservancy fights development.

Advocacy groups fought development with protests and legal maneuvers, and as a result, more than 2,500 acres of the Pine Bush have been turned into a preserve.

"We're very concerned about it," said Jean Rich, president of the Washington Valley Association, a residents group that in the past has successfully fought development of a jail, a highway and a psychiatric hospital.

What should rise next on the industrially zoned acreage, which is next to the Long Island Expressway but also at the borders of residential communities, has remained, in the days since the hearing, at the center of one of the most stubbornly fought development battles on Long Island in years.

But resident Mike Miller, who fought development of neighboring Adams Canyon two years ago, said he didn't believe that Fagan Canyon would be the panacea others were counting upon.