Sentence examples for historic zone from inspiring English sources

Sightseeing The downtown historic zone, Monterey's most evocative district, is centered on three-block-long Alvarado Street and includes a dozen 19th-century adobes, some now museum houses.

About the same time, the government prosecuted Mr. Nisanyan for illegal construction in a historic zone and filed demolition orders against his houses and several others in the village.

Many in the city have raised heated complaints about the Unesco status — which, since it went into effect in 1988, has legally prevented residents of the historic zone from modernizing their homes — and about the Aga Khan Trust's tradition-breaking makeover.

It lay in disrepair until the early 1970s, when it was declared a historic zone.

JEFFERSON PARK: This modern bungalow with an open floor plan enjoys historic zone protection.

The cathedral lies in the middle of Ponce's town square, known as Plaza Las Delicias, located at the center of the Ponce Historic Zone.

"We don't want our historic zones and monuments used as scenes," he said.

Growing more sensitive to such criticism in the buildup to the Olympic Games, the government drafted a conservation plan designating 25 protected historic zones in the city center.

Developed area means roads, parking areas, picnic areas, campgrounds, or other structures, facilities or lands located within development and historic zones depicted on the park area land management and use map.

In a town that is rapidly "digesting itself" at the rate of some 100 teardowns a year, however, saving old properties located outside of protected historic zones is rarely a rational process, Mr. Boyd said.

"Besides restoring the exteriors, we established historic zones to be preserved," said Patricia Massey, who was project manager and director of the Baltimore Housing Partnership and who now runs her own firm, Katia Development.