Sentences with phrase «neighborhood zoning regulations»

Mr. de Blasio's office noted what it thought were successes, such as protecting neighborhood zoning regulations, stabilizing bus contracting and preventing tinted windows on cars.

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Nevertheless, making such neighborhoods today is very hard, not only because we have largely lost the requisite cultural and social habits, but also because in most places zoning laws (which mandate segregated uses) and street design regulations (which are crafted exclusively to make streets efficient for cars rather than also safe for pedestrians) make it literally illegal to build such environments.

A: For such a long time, many houses and neighborhoods and zoning regulations were all developed on the model of nuclear families living in single - family detached homes out in the suburbs.

They appreciate that human factors — including global warming and the sacrifice of natural protections to energy exploitation and of zoning regulation to the greed of developers — killed relatives and friends, and contributed to their collapsed homes and destroyed neighborhoods.

Mowry has already changed building specifications and zoning regulations to insure that new houses are built higher, but when he started the job in 2013, zoning regulations actually prohibited builders from elevating their houses past a certain point for fear of ruining some neighborhoods» residential aesthetic.