Sentences with phrase «urbanized areas»

They also roost in urbanized areas such as New York City and Chicago where they form large, noisy flocks that can be heard for great distances.

In fact, the economies of urbanized areas with large declines in driving have been less affected by the recession according to unemployment and poverty indicators.

«I will continue to support their efforts because green roofs help improve the quality of our region's critical water resources, particularly by reducing stormwater runoff in highly urbanized areas.»

«This segment of the trail goes through the most heavily urbanized areas of Onondaga County,» said Town of DeWitt planner Sam Gordon.

The researchers found that the presence and seriousness of gastrointestinal parasitic infections were higher in more urbanized areas with land covered by compact soil and cultivated vegetation.

It seem that in most urbanized areas in recent years (2000 - present) Democrats win more elections on average than Republicans.

Unlike tribes in more urbanized areas, the Yupik are so remote that fishing and hunting continue.

From 2006 to 2011, the average number of miles driven per resident fell in almost three - quarters of America's largest urbanized areas for which up - to - date and accurate data are available.

Authorizes DOT to withhold grants to develop state safety oversight programs from states with programs deemed insufficient, including up to 5 % of a state's apportionment of formula public transportation grants for urbanized areas with a population under 200,000.

These situations don't happen to real estate professionals very often, and most say when they do encounter it, it's in less urbanized areas.

It would be nice if Washington could realize that even if congestion pricing were effective (we'll skip the implications of paying for a street you then have to pay an additional surcharge to use); the effects of congestion pricing in a highly urbanized area like New York are not going to play the same way in a sprawl like Los Angeles.

In addition, MTA will use $ 36 million of FTA Section 5307 Urbanized Area Formula Grant funds for the project.

The successful spread of invasive species, such as the migration of coyotes from the wild into urbanized areas, is driving some conservationists to rethink their science and strategies, according to a report in Salon.

The company is seeking to pioneer new financing models in rapidly urbanizing areas in Latin America and other developing countries that create sustainable housing at the lowest cost of acquisition and total ownership, through resilient and energy - efficient design and materials use

In 2013, the United States had 14.8 million students located outside urbanized areas (urban areas defined as 50,000 residents or more), down from 18 million students in 2011.

Raccoons commonly travel through storm drains and come up in very urbanized areas.

The researchers suspect that terrestrial runoff, particularly around urbanized areas, may transport the potentially deadly organism into the ocean (ScienceNOW, 15 July 2002).

It provides data on 14 key transportation and health indicators that measure transportation system performance based on safety, active transportation, air quality, connectivity, and equity to destinations at the State, metropolitan statistical area, and urbanized area geographies, providing users with information on how their community or state compares to their peers.

A high level of demand in a newly urbanized area will often improve salary options for skilled vet assistants.

What Legge meant by that, the University of Queensland summary of her findings explained, was that «in addition to strategic cat control in bushland areas,» where cats have already long been massacred as rapidly as they can be found, «there is a need to address feral cats in heavily urbanized areas where their population density could be 30 times higher than in natural environments.»

The regional term is defined to refer to the more - or-less continuously urbanized area stretching from Ventura County to the southern border of Orange County and from the Pacific Ocean to the Coachella Valley in the Inland Empire.

Maybe folks (our world wide cultural status quo) should learn to not live in the flood plains by seas lakes or rivers, in the ravines or on hillsides in traditional forest fire zones, in major cities built on fault lines, in mass urbanized areas within the waterless desert, or continuously need bigger Government to solve the day to day challenges of solving basic problems.

In addition, fuel efficiency helps reduce toxic ambient air pollutions such as sulfur oxide, nitrous oxide and particulate matter, which contribute to poor air quality in many urbanized areas.

The authors used a satellite - imagery derived map made by the MODIS project that can distinguish between urbanized areas and rural and undeveloped areas.

Variations in the economy do not appear to be responsible for variations in the trends in driving among urbanized areas.

As national conversations focus on the role of charter public schools in large urban districts, the 16 percent of students enrolled in charter schools located outside of urbanized areas can get overlooked.

Just a guess as to one theory: late votes tend to come from highly urbanized areas (due to the volume of voting that needs counting).

Indeed, if we use NASA's satellite measurements of the average night - time city lights as an estimate of the amount of urbanization in the area, then we can see from Figure 31 that the station is right in the middle of a very heavily urbanized area.

The centerpiece of the rule would return to the statutory definition of Metropolitan Planning Area (MPA) so that it would include the existing urbanized area (UZA) and the surrounding area forecast to become urbanized over a 20 - year period.

Believe it or not, Latin America is the most urbanized area of the world according to the United Nations.

The options for a gluten - free wedding cake are fairly standard, though in smaller towns and less urbanized areas, such options become slimmer.

But Medicaid costs still eat up a huge share of county budgets, especially in poorer, urbanized areas like Erie County, where nearly 84 percent of the tax levy went to Medicaid last year.

Public transportation law requires public transportation agencies that receive Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funding under the Section 5307 Urbanized Area Formula Program to offer half fare or reduced fare to people with disabilities and seniors during off - peak -LSB-...]

The «Chinagate» scandal appears to demonstrate that much of the temperature change in China may actually have been «caused» by placing monitoring equipment in rapidly urbanizing areas — rather than documenting a change in the climate, such data simply illustrates the long - established «urban heat effect» associated with cities around the world.

They note that further extended studies are needed, especially in large urbanized areas with varied habitat types, cat densities and prey availability.

The new study «gives us a unique opportunity to improve our knowledge of the behavior of soil deposits during earthquakes, especially in urbanized areas,» write Leyton and colleagues, who say the data could be used to help improve building designs and codes.

Standing next to Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner, DiNapoli issued a report quantifying what has long been a gripe of officials in mostly older, urbanized areas: Some of their biggest economic drivers are tax - exempt institutions like universities and hospitals that require municipal services but don't pay any property taxes.

«Maunalua Bay is situated in a highly urbanized area, and the coral reefs in the bay have become degraded as the population has boomed over the last 50 years.

The species lives in environments ranging from marshes and forests to urbanized areas.

Participants were categorized as urban if the school they attended served an «urbanized area» as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau: was located in a county with a population of more than 200,000 and had an average enrollment per grade level at the secondary level of more than 300 students.

As cities grow, researchers want to understand ecological systems as they exist in heavily urbanized areas.

The other thing you want to look at doing is doing a proper detoxification program, especially if you live in more of an urbanized area.

We classify as urban any Census block group which is more than 50 percent urban (including both urbanized areas and urban clusters).

According to the Census categorizations, cities are defined as a «territory inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city» of an MSA and can be either large, midsize, or small.

Towns and rural areas are further distinguished by their distance from an urbanized area.

The new locale codes are based on an address's proximity to an urbanized area (a densely settled core with densely settled surrounding areas).