Some ministers were sent packing with handsome payoffs — four or five cars, a generous slab of land and a grand mansion.
Rather than giving away a whole slab of land as a closed package, the mayor could instead partition the area the developer is asking for, then create reserves of public space between the lots: ecological corridors with a civic standard the developer would never be incentivised to deliver.
It's a dramatic slab of land.
The stability of the hillside may have been disrupted by the unnoticed quake, on a slab of land saturated with large amounts of rain.
The slab of land at Spain's southern tip has gone from being an expat theme park famous for its red phone boxes and monkeys to being the potential site of a flashpoint between the British and Spanish governments.
But the geeks and hipsters who parked their bikes on this slab of broken land and sneaked past the "no trespassing" sign were not here on business.
The first is associated with cases where masonry infill walls leave a short portion of clear column, creating the so-called short column; this situation is caused by openings in the infill walls, for doors or windows, or for landing slabs of staircases.
In one stretch, the houses have been razed, leaving only slabs of concrete in otherwise barren swaths of land.
