Sentence examples for land to development from inspiring English sources

According to the American Farmland Trust, the country loses about 50 acres of prime agricultural land to development every hour.

He also contends that inheritance taxes are driving the struggling ranches out of business and subsequently opening up too much environmentally sensitive land to development.

Here in Dartford we lost large areas of open land to development and the area is fast becoming an extension of London's urban sprawl.

In the last three decades, China's farmers have "contributed" 200,000 square kilometers, or about 77,000 square miles, of land to development, with little compensation, he said.

That means in a little more than a decade, the county lost 25percentt of its open land to development, said Paul Gallay, executive director of Westchester Land Trust.

"Without the transition from row crops to vineyards, we would have lost much more agricultural land to development," said Marsha Kenny, the director of communications for the Peconic Land Trust, a nonprofit conservation group with offices in Southampton and Cutchogue.

Our visit coincided with a series of major clashes between Awajun protesters and the security forces over plans to open up the Awajun's ancestral lands to development by international mining firms.

Gale A. Norton, Mr. Bush's selection for interior secretary, long affiliated with groups interested in opening more federal lands to development, is also expected to come under fire at her hearing on Thursday.

From 1982 to 1997, upstate New York converted more than 425,000 acres of rural, mostly agricultural land to urban development, a whopping 30percentt increase in total developed land while the population increased by only 2.6percentt.

But the Energy Policy Act of 2005, a Bush administration initiative, opened the land to the development of solar projects.

Trump administration officials announced this week that they're considering dropping protections for a vast swath of the California desert to open up more land to energy development.