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• n  dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc
• v  regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
• v  separate or apportion into sections

• Bonuses for builders, at a price The first American zoning law was passed in New York City in 1916 to limit the size of new skyscrapers that were casting shadows on nearby.
• What he got was a blizzard of bills that have now hit $10,000 and an endless zoning suit that has become the longest in the history of Florida's Dade County.
• In 1922, Euclid Village, on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, adopted a zoning ordinance to regulate the location of industrial buildings, stores, apartments, double and single .

• zone
• district
• partition

News & Articles

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• Zoning Board rejects proposed women's shelter again
  The Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously rejected a use variance for a proposed women’s shelter for the second time.
  June 12, 2013 - The Observer-Dispatch
• Zoning switch: Council approves zoning change for housing development
  The Rowlett City Council approved a zoning change request to allow a housing development to continue with its plans to build a single family residential neighborhood in the Northshore area of the city.
  June 12, 2013 - The Rowlett Lakeshore Times
• PLYMOUTH ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS: New life for Manomet cottages
  The Zoning Board of Appeals didn’t quite get to the deliberation stage in its review of a plan to raze four single-family Manomet cottages and rebuild three. DORCOD LLC wants to level these homes and reconfigure three new homes on the four lots.
  June 11, 2013 - Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin

Quotes

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• Rodney Eade in The Canberra Times
  You're practising zoning,said coach Rodney Eade, "but you're also working out ways to counter it."
• President Bush in KSTP.com
  These laws "were never meant to regulate global climate change," said Bush, and would "make the federal government act like a local planning and zoning board."
• Nate McMillan in USA Today
  I thought he did a great job of just reading and getting to the open spot,Blazers coach Nate McMillan said. "Denver does a lot of zoning. They trap and they zone and you've got to move, but you've got to move the ball also. Tonight, late...