Search results for: “residential area”
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Area Zoning
An important feature of most zoning regulations, specifying the amount of land surface which may be built upon. It includes, e.g., for individual dwelling units specifications of the size of front, rear and side yards, and how far houses must be set back, and for multiple-dwelling or high-rise […]
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General Improvement Area
English Legal System: General Improvement AreaIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of General Improvement Area : A predominantly residential area in which a housing authority considers that it should improve or help to improve living […]
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Buffer Zone
A strip of land, of variable width, established between two others to help mitigate or eliminate conflict between them. The conflict may be aesthetic, e.g., between an industrial and residential area in a city, the buffer zone being established by the zoning board to contain uses transitional […]
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Adverse Land Use
Concept of Adverse Land Use in the context of Real Property A short definition of Adverse Land Use: A use which causes surrounding property to lose value, such as an industrial development in a residential area.
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Tokyo Round
Tokyo Round in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the seventh round of GATT multilateral trade negotiations which took place between 1973 and 1979. 102 countries participated in this round. Both from the point of view of participation and the […]
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Public Policy
The phrase is one of wide import covering all principles under which the freedom of contract or private dealings is restricted by law for the good of the community . The principle which declares that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to public welfare. […]
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Development
In relation to mining, the term means preparation of the explored deposit for extraction, exploitation and techniques employed, such as stripping, shafting or tunnelling which techniques have as their immediate object the opening up of deposit or the gaining of access to deposit so that […]
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Section 301
Section 301 in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the section so numbered of the United States Trade Act of 1974. The entries on trade policy are here. It was amended in 1979 (Trade Agreements Act), 1984 (Trade and Tariff Act), 1988 (Omnibus Trade […]
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Section 301
Section 301 in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the section so numbered of the United States Trade Act of 1974. The entries on trade policy are here. It was amended in 1979 (Trade Agreements Act), 1984 (Trade and Tariff Act), 1988 (Omnibus Trade […]
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Suburban
Concept of Suburban in the context of Real Property A short definition of Suburban: The area around a city. Usually residential with small businesses, although modernly an attraction for large industrial and commercial complexes.
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Multifamily Property
Concept of Multifamily Property in the context of Real Property A short definition of Multifamily Property: To meet the FNMA definition it is a residential property of not less than five dwelling units with not more than 20 percent of the net rentable area rented or set aside for rent to […]
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Pyramid Zoning
Concept of Pyramid Zoning in the context of Real Property A short definition of Pyramid Zoning: Including more restrictive uses in less restrictive uses. Examples: Residential use (more restrictive) would be allowed in an area zoned commercial (less restrictive); commercial (more restrictive) […]