Sentence examples for zoning authority from inspiring English sources

The Legislature acted that year to realize the report's central recommendation, the creation of a parkwide zoning authority for an area half the size of Vermont.

They had been held by the town of Hempstead because of a 1938 amendment in the Nassau County charter that denied zoning authority to new villages.

"Now that this is the law, it erases all village zoning authority throughout Nassau and Suffolk as it relates to waterfront projects," he said.

As the California writer Peter Schrag noted in "Paradise Lost," the new cities used planning and zoning authority to "keep poor and low-income housing out".

They do apply in one place: The exclusive shore community of Sachem's Head, which has its own taxing and zoning authority, adopted restrictions seven years ago on lot coverage and floor area much like those proposed.

The factory hog farms in North Carolina, for instance, were given a strong boost in their early days by a state law, eventually overturned, that prohibited counties from using zoning authority to restrict factory farms.

Planning and zoning authorities in the Town of Hempstead, where the site is located, will review the developers' plans.

(4) Districts in the vicinity of subsidized roads are expected to receive added values which can be then exploited by zoning authorities in the land-use planning initiatives (a practice called value capture [26]).

The project still requires the consent of zoning authorities.

"It would set a very dangerous precedent and take the rightful authority away from local zoning authorities".

That juxtaposition of body and spirit did not sit well with the zoning authorities in this pleasant suburb west of Philadelphia.