Sentence examples for ordinance limiting from inspiring English sources

Town officials in Newtown, Connecticut, have unanimously approved a firearms ordinance limiting recreational shooting.

In the early 1980's, the Long Beach City Council passed an ordinance limiting airlines to 18 daily departures.

Wal-Mart spent almost $300,000 to underwrite a campaign there to overturn a local ordinance limiting the size of new stores.

Last spring the village issued summonses to 10 residents, citing violations of an old, little-known local ordinance limiting the height of flagpoles.

The Town of Brookhaven, which includes the Farmingville hamlet, has passed an ordinance limiting the number of people who may occupy a residence.

To argue by analogy: few would contend that a local ordinance limiting the amount of land one may own to one-quarter acre is an infringement on free speech; but a local ordinance limiting the amount of land one may use to place placards supporting political candidates to one-quarter acre would come under some constitutional scrutiny.

An ordinance limits officials to two terms but allows them to run as write-ins.

The city of Boulder, north-west of Denver, has taken the most radical step: an ordinance limits growth to 2% a year by curbing new housing permits.

A local ordinance limits the number of franchise restaurants to nine, and no chains, save an incongruous Bank of America, mar the handsomeness of Arcata's central plaza.

Rare until relatively recently, as land in the area is relatively plentiful, underground building activity grew in earnest after a 2008 Los Angeles ordinance limited the percentage of a lot a home could consume.

The Riverhead ordinance limits the height of parking-lot lights to 17 feet and of commercial lighting to 15 feet in locations 36 feet or more from property lines.