Sentences with phrase «of land on»

So far the members of the five local families who still own the vast majority of the land on Koh Mak have managed to keep developers at bay and have encouraged smaller bungalow resorts and upmarket boutique resorts.

Rancho Corral de Tierra (Rancho), one of the largest undeveloped pieces of land on the San Mateo peninsula, was planned for subdivisions, «ranchettes» and a golf course.

Christmas Island got its name from Captain William Mynors, an English seafarer who stumbled upon this unknown blip of land on Christmas Day in 1643, though it wasn't until the late 1800s that the island was properly surveyed.

The next day they moved to a larger piece of land on the island.

In addition, Animal Outreach has purchased a parcel of land on which to build a no - kill shelter and sanctuary.»

The company still holds close to a million acres of land on the Florida coast and based on its stock market value the company at that time was being valued at about $ 2000 / acre.

The long and short of it is that GYRO's main asset, a large parcel of land on LI, was appropriated by NY State under eminent domain in 2005 and the recompense provided at the time was not deemed fair by GYRO management so they went to court.

If you happen to own the plot of land on which you plan to place a manufactured home, it can make the manufactured home vastly more affordable than a single - family home.

The market price of your house includes the value of the land on which the house is situated.

Here in Kenya we have huge areas of road reserves — large treeless tracts of land on either side of all roads.

Shanghai is located on a delta of land on the country's eastern coast, where the Yangtze River empties into the East China Sea.

In 2003, the East Hampton Town Planning Board granted Hummel the parcel of land on which the building stands.

The pair, along with their bored teenage daughter Guthrie (Sara Rodier), are camping near a plot of land on which the couple intent to build a house.

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

A later scene, which has Eilis and Tony overlooking a plot of land on Long Island, is so perfectly idyllic that we can feel an impending marriage between Eilis» old life and what could be her new one.

Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest - within which lurks an unknown evil.

I just found this new thing, where I could have just bought a plot of land on the water.

He buys Site X, 52,000 acres of land on the Clinch River.

Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in Africa to build more than one Great Pyramid for every square kilometre of land on the continent.

Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent.

After all, the roughly 1,200 square kilometers of land on which New York sits is now valued at around $ 600 billion, much more than the total cost of building the Big Apple.

In 1995, the ship featured as a rusty tanker in Kevin Costner's film Waterworld, captained by a deranged pirate bent on locating the last bit of land on a world where climate change has melted the ice caps.

Steve: And another factor you mention in the article is 30 percent of the land on the Earth that isn't covered with ice is used for grazing livestock and growing animal feed.

Kiribati took Fiji up on a similar offer, buying 8 square miles of land on one of Fiji's islands.

Fences allow lions and other wildlife to survive on fragments of land on which it would otherwise be impossible to conserve large mammals because they keep big animals from coming into conflict with humans, livestock and agriculture.

Citing the Trump administration's efforts to scale back national parks, Cuomo vowed to open the largest state part in New York City, a 407 - acre plot of land on Jamaica Bay.

The Cuomo administration says it's ready to make the Democrat's $ 132.5 billion plan, which carries a 2.7 percent cut and deep gouges to the public university system, the law of the land on April 2.

Newsday reports that «the city reported to the IRS that the value of the land on which Yankee Stadium sits is worth $ 204 million.

He reintroduced an idea that he proposed in February of this year — to use some of the land on the more than 1,100 vacant lots the city already owns to build affordable housing, creating a land bank and land trust that would partner with nonprofit affordable housing developers to build what Stringer has estimated could amount to 57,000 units of affordable housing citywide.

Although the state wants to sell the plot of land on which the center is located, Kearns said families have expressed their strong support for keeping the East and West Road facility open.

Starting dates differ somewhat, but 20 years is a good round number since developers first proposed the resort on some 1,900 acres of land on the Ulster - Delaware border.

By James Briggs An expansive parcel of land on Madison's east side might not be the perfect investment city officials said it was.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Onondaga County officials never bothered to notify the Onondaga Nation this month that they were about to break their 2011 promise to give the nation a piece of land on Onondaga Lake, the nation's attorney said.

Onondaga County officials never bothered to notify the Onondaga Nation this month that they were about to break their 2011 promise to give the nation a piece of land on Onondaga Lake, the nation's attorney said.

According to the section 114 report, the final issue to push the local authority over the edge was its failure to sell a piece of land on the outskirts of Northampton to housing developers.

The council brought an application against them which could have seen them face up to two years in prison, together with a second application for possession of a piece of land on Oxford Road.

We have 11,000 acres of land on 38 sites.

In the redistricting plan as it stands, Avella's district loses the roughly 4.5 acres of land on the Creedmoor psychiatric hospital campus in what -LSB-...]

A while back, there was a fun article making the rounds about some dude selling people «rights» to own a plot of land on the Moon.

In areas of low property prices, the tax liability would be zero; in areas of high property prices, it would be proportionate to the scarcity of the land on which the property sits.

It's in their interests to ensure the long - term future of the land on which they rely for their and their families» livelihoods.

On commercial and industrial premises, the same principle applies: the tax base is the value of the land on which the property sits, regardless of the value or condition of the buildings on it.

Park district officials say they still are gathering input from the community on the plan to pay about $ 20.3 million for the 115,000 - square - foot facility at 1300 Techny Road and the 17 acres of land on which it sits...

The District purchased 1.3 acres of land on the southeast side of Recreation Park along Northwest Highway (500, 506, & 510 East) for $ 840,000 in July 1999, using $ 100,000 from the Arlington Heights Park District / Frontier Days Recreation Park Expansion & Improvement Fund.

OAK LAWN Dog park may still have its day An Oak Lawn Park District - owned piece of land on the village's west side may soon literally go to the dogs.

The city has taken some of the frustration out of the planning process over the last few weeks by taking a more active role in the purchase of the land on 95th Street near Neuqua Valley High School from the Park District.

Chances are you already have a sizeable chunk of land on which to build your house.

When an architectural study showed that the mansion could not handle a third expansion without costly structural work, the City Council, library board and Park District hammered out a land swap in which the Park District gave the city and library 27,000 square feet of land at Prospect Street near the Elmhurst Art Museum in exchange for 52,000 square feet of land on the north and south sides of the mansion.

By 1955, after only nine years of existence, the Fox River Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District owned 180 acres of land on which eight new parks, two dams and a recreation center had been built.

LEMONT — The Lemont Park District has approved an agreement to take over 40 acres of land on Smith Road for athletic fields that officials predict will serve the community's needs for decades.