And yet, 50 years later, I have a wooden pole with eight wires hanging off it not 100 feet from my house in a hillside fire-risk zone.
Often the land is in depressed parts of a town, he said, or in odd locations, such as a hillside or an industrial zone.
But the Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday not to challenge the inclusion of the grassy hillside in a renewal zone if the city will forward to the county its full 57% share of property tax on new development.
Chinese market gardens are terraced on the hillsides, producing temperate-zone crops (strawberries, cabbages, tomatoes, lettuces) that are sold in the large lowland towns.
On a sweltering day in August, as record-breaking wildfires raged throughout the state, we visited a recently-renovated home tucked into a high fire zone on the Hollywood hillside — a home designed to stand its ground against potential flames.
More than half of Bogotá's citizens live in zones 1 and 2, mostly in dense slums that cover the hillsides; in the northern fringes are small clusters of zone 6, where luxury apartment towers block out the hillsides.
The new zone is slated to cover Los Angeles hillsides between Griffith Park and the 405 Freeway.
The militia maintains many of the 90 hillside forts that are the backbone of the Israeli zone, and undertake risky road patrols and door-to-door searches.
By law, wines made on a wide swath of land in the Veneto region, including terraced hillsides and large flat expanses, are permitted to be called Valpolicella, but the best wines generally come from the hillside vineyards in the oldest part of the Valpolicella zone and are labeled "classico".
Like a child rolling down a hillside, Coles twice rolled shoulder over shoulder into the end zone.
