Mr. Garcetti said that building guidelines in this 25-square-mile zone had not been changed in 24 years.
The Environment Ministry said the cleanup would cover about two-thirds of the 100-square-mile zone around the plant that was evacuated after last March's accident.
The ship ran aground within a 30,000-square-mile zone that is designated a sanctuary for marine mammals, and Italian government officials and environmentalists are worried that rough seas may further damage the ship and cause a fuel leak.
Iskandar, a 2,200-square-kilometer 2,200-square-kilometer 2,200-square-kilometere or Singapore, is just across a narrow strip of water, and Malaysia is pushing its many advantages for factories looking to relocate.
From the point of view of authorities here, congestion charging has been a rousing success, reducing traffic in a 15-square-mile zone of the city by 70,000 cars a day since it was introduced in 2003.
The moratorium doesn't mean that people who live within the affected 32-square-mile zone will be cut off from the pleasures of an inexpensive cheeseburger and hot fries.
Here, in the heart of the 16,000-square-mile zone that Colombia's government ceded to guerrillas two years ago as a peace gesture, the rebels operate the courts, press public officials to pave roads, set up roadblocks, and levy "taxes" against ranchers and cocaine traffickers.
By allowing the rebels to continue their oversight of a 16,000-square-mile zone in the southern province of Caqueta, Mr. Pastrana was forcefully prodding them to peace negotiations that they froze just over three weeks ago, complaining that the government was not doing enough to curb paramilitary forces, which are the rebels' nemesis.
Panama granted the U.S. "sovereign rights" to a 500-square-mile zone down the center of the country at its independence in 1903; in 1914 the U.S. linked the Pacific and Atlantic oceans with a canal.
The 11-square-mile zone is in the northeastern fringe of Shanghai in an industrial zone near the international airport.
In response, Italy launched its Mare Nostrum project using navy ships and aircraft to patrol a 27,000-square-mile zone stretching to near the Libyan coast.
