In theory, high-density developments are supposed to compensate for land left undeveloped, but proposals for such developments are often fiercely resisted.
"It is important to keep open space in our neighborhoods open". The initiative would give voters the opportunity to decide the merits of a proposal to purchase undeveloped urban parcels to be preserved as open space.
It remained undeveloped until the 1960s, when a series of proposals were made to develop the keys in the manner of Miami Beach, and to construct a deepwater seaport for bulk cargo, along with refinery and petrochemical facilities on the mainland shore of Biscayne Bay.
The proposal for the 90-acre site, the largest undeveloped area in Nassau, includes two seven-story office towers, rental apartments spread through 37 two-story buildings, three hotels, a 140-unit assisted-living center, another smaller office building and a self-storage facility.
The bid proposals are tied in with plans to regenerate undeveloped areas in the east of the capital in the Lower Lea Valley area.
He said he supported alternate proposals in the Legislature to raise money to buy undeveloped land in the state, including a bill that would dedicate a quarter of a percent of existing sales tax revenue for land purchases.
Our dysfunctional land market is one of the key barriers to house building, so I'm delighted to see proposals to tackle land banking such as charging council tax on undeveloped land and shortening the time before a planning permission expires.
The Newport Banning Ranch proposal — by oil companies and their real estate partner — would turn the largest undeveloped, privately owned land on the Southern California coast into a massive residential, hotel and commercial enterprise despite claims of damage to environmentally sensitive habitat.
Here is what Suffolk County residents thought they did in voting down Proposal 2 on Election Day: they rejected any limits on borrowing against sales tax revenues to buy undeveloped land.
So far these proposals have come to naught, and just as in Dallas, vast lots bulldozed decades ago remain undeveloped.
A significant component of Reagan's military buildup was his 1983 proposal for a space-based missile defense system that would use lasers and other as-yet-undeveloped killing technologies to destroy incoming Soviet nuclear missiles well before they could reach their targets in the United States.
