Sentences with phrase «of acres of public lands for»

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has opened millions of acres of public lands for development while pursuing policies of protection in his home state.

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Park district officials have been gathering public input on the idea of turning Five Seasons into a community center since April, when they announced an opportunity to purchase the local health club and the 17 acres of land it stands on for about $ 20.3 million.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District owns thousands of acres of river - edged properties; perhaps some additional land can be leased to the Park District for public parks.

Officials with the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco - based, non-profit conservation group, announced they have bought a half - acre lot in the 2700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, across the street from Haas Park.

According to state law, Gervais said that if it acquires the land, the Park District could not sell more than 3 acres of it without the public voting for it.

GENEVA — Aldermen have agreed to refer a proposed ordinance to increase the fair market value of an acre of land in the city for development purposes to the Plan Commission for public hearing.

The director of the Tinley Park Park District is hoping to begin excavating land, installing drainage pipes and erecting fences this year for a seven - acre dog park about a half - mile west of the Tinley Park Public Library.

Consultants hired by the state have suggested that 18 acres of land off New Scotland Avenue near Albany Medical Center would be the best site for a proposed new $ 750 million Wadsworth Center, the state's public health laboratory.

JOHNSBURG The Mill Creek - Sullivan's Island Citizens Committee told the Johnsburg Town Board April 3 it decided there should be rules for public recreation areas that are part of 227 acres of land being given to the town by the Open Space Institute.

The Natural Heritage Trust provided $ 2 million from the proceeds of a donation by the Trust for Public Land, which helped orchestrate the purchase of 525 acres from KeySpan Energy to create the park while returning 300 adjacent acres to active agricultural production.

The Johnsburg Town Board has asked the Olympic Region Development Authority for $ 40,000 for the use of nearly 200 acres of public land at the Ski Bowl.

There is a public comment session scheduled for Tuesday evening in a Hudson Valley Hasidic Jewish village concerning the proposed annexation of more than 500 acres of land to the village.

Two decades - old pieces of legislation — the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governLands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governlands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governlands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal government.

Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public land across the American West to oil and gas drilling during its tenure.

Over protests from conservation and citizen groups, on August 14 the BLM auctioned off energy leases for all of the remaining public land on the Roan encompassing 54,631 acres (221 square kilometers).

Now a decadelong struggle over the fate of thousands of acres of public land on the Roan has come to a head, and just in time for the hotly contested race for Colorado's open U.S. Senate seat.

In the middle of acres of land is a historic mansion that opens today for the public.

[n8] The Permanent School Fund, its predecessor established in 1854 with $ 2,000,000 realized from an annexation settlement, [n9] was thereafter endowed with millions of acres of public land set aside to assure a continued source of income for school support.

«The exchange, which has been debated for the last five years, would trade 1,460 acres of public BLM land for 661 acres of private land held by Leslie and Abigail Wexner, the billionaire owners of the retail conglomerate Limited Brands.»

So we took a look at acres of parkland per 1,000 people from the Trust for Public Land's public report on parks inPublic Land's public report on parks inpublic report on parks in 2012.

Thanks to a partnership with the City of Santa Fe and the Bureau of Land Management, the main Shelter is housed on a 100 - acre campus complete with walking trails and play yards for daily enrichment for our Shelter residents, as well as single and multi - use public dog parks.

Haleakala National Park is best known for being the world's largest dormant volcano and, at over 10,000 feet above sea level, the tallest peak on Maui where you can watch a fantastic sunrise, view unique wildlife, and have an amazingly vivid stargazing experience; However, the park encompasses more than 30,000 acres of public land, stretching from the summit down to the coast where lush natural beauty, waterfalls, and rich Hawaiian culture await in an area called Kipahulu.

Haleakala National Park is best known for being the world's largest dormant volcano and, at over 10,000 feet above sea level, the tallest peak on Maui where you can watch a fantastic sunrise, view unique wildlife, and have an amazingly vivid stargazing experience; However, the park encompasses more than 30,000 acres of public land, stretching from the summit down to...

The BLM already has identify 21 million acres of public land in 11 western states that would be a good fit for wind energy projects, 29 million acres in six southwestern states for solar energy developments, and 140 million acres in western states and Alaska for geothermal energy exploration.

In response to overwhelming public protest and pressure, the Trump administration has backed down from plans to auction away 17,300 acres of public lands for fracking in Montana.

As he suggested in his State of the Union speech, President Obama seems willing to generate electricity for three million homes by blanketing a million acres of public lands with taxpayer - subsidized, bird - killing wind turbines, habitat - smothering solar panels, high - voltage transmission lines, and gas - fired backup units.

In 2017, the BLM auctioned off more than a million acres of public lands for fracking in six Western states.

Surely it would have been jarring simply to describe that plan's instrumental view of nature, with its firm avowal of «American energy dominance» and suggestion that millions of acres of public lands and waters may soon be auctioned off for oil and gas development.

Scenic Hudson has preserved nearly 7,000 acres of farmland, part of more than 23,000 acres of land it has protected for public benefit in the Hudson Valley.

The scale of the infrastructure needed for this mission is huge: K — 12 public school districts operate more than 7.5 billion gross square feet of building area and an estimated 2 million acres of land.

Luxury apartments to be used for 10 days by athletes In the next two years, Delhi's government will irrevocably alter 118 acres of formerly protected public lands on the ecologically - sensitive floodplains of the Yamuna River, in order to build «prestige projects» and luxury apartments that will house athletes for a mere 10 days, to the tune of Rs. 1.8 to 4.2 crores each (1 crore = 10 million or US $ 387,000 to 903,000).

The legislation also contains new Wilderness designations for over two million acres of public land.

Although several large - scale solar projects in California have sputtered (including two from BrightSource) and technical challenges are considerable, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a move in early July to prioritize more than 300,000 acres of public lands in six Western states for use by utility - scale solar plants, with nearly half of that acreage in California.

Virginia Vacant land portion of Metro West, Fairfax (9.82509 acres zoned Planned Residential Mixed - Use) Springfield Town Center, Fairfax (49 acres zoned for office, retail, hotel, and multifamily) Woodland Park, Herndon (112 acres zoned for multiple office development) Leegate, LLC Property, Leesburg (126 - acre vacant land tract, Route 7 and Battlefield Parkway) Moorefield Station, Loudoun County (20.3944 - acre public use site part of 81.6 - acre proffered public use site) Loudoun Center, Loudoun County (669 acres zoned for multiple office development) Cleveland Site, McLean (10.29 - acre trace for Route 123 and the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project) Reston (7,400 acres zoned for planned unit development) Stafford County (market study for various property types from January 1, 2006 to January 1, 2010, including the appropriate range of land values for single - family [large acreage parcels], multifamily, retail, office, and industrial properties Tysons Square Center, Vienna (14.19054 - acre tract)