In the 1960s, the apartheid government forcibly removed them and razed their homes in order to impose racial separation.
But replacing the road would entail acquiring and razing residential neighborhoods in order to widen the road, a prospect that the state officials consider "socially, financially and practically unfeasible, " according to Eileen Peters, a department spokeswoman.
Indeed, upon hearing the report's recommendations, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon responded by announcing that his government would seek a $375 million increase in subsidies for settlement expansion, and reaffirmed a decision to confiscate more Palestinian land and raze more homes in order to build a "bypass" road around Palestinian East Jerusalem for Israeli settlers.
In 2012, the Lagos state government declared Makoko illegal, and tried to evict its residents in order to raze the entire floating slum.
Last spring, protests were triggered by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's decision to raze Gezi Park, in central Istanbul, in order to build a shopping mall in the style of an Ottoman barracks.
Although social issues aren't excluded from French's first two novels — both involve schemes to raze a rare old property in order to build a profitable new one — they cluster at the periphery of a crisis with deeper roots.
Moreover, the Abbey board now says it will consider staying put on its historic site only if the government buys neighboring buildings -- at tremendous expense -- in order to raze the existing buildings and rebuild while expanding sideways for a city block, down to the River Liffey.
A better headline for your story on Bruce C. Ratner's plan to raze 10 acres of private property in order to build an unnecessary and unwanted stadium would be "A Nightmare Grows in Brooklyn".
The Legislature intended that the demolition provision allow owners to completely raze buildings containing dilapidated and dangerous housing units in order to construct new, safe residential buildings.
Perhaps you recall the fabled words of the unnamed US officer in the Vietnam war who ruefully said of the place American forces had just razed to the ground, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it".
