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belt, corridor, land, neck, part(s), region, tract
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The town council voted to zone the area for industrial use.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Sader and her husband recently spent two summers working together at a drop-zone in California. — Danielle Williams, SELF, "11 Adventurous Moms Worth Following on Instagram," 20 May 2019 That's offset somewhat by several newly standard features, including dual-zone automatic climate control and active-safety features such as forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, and lane-keep assist. — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, "The 2020 Hyundai Elantra Drops Its Manual Transmission and Gets a CVT for Better MPG," 14 May 2019 These detailed pages include heart-rate line graphs, heart-rate-zone graphics, pace charts, and more, providing a good amount of detail for each workout recorded. — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, "Huawei Watch GT review: When hardware and software don’t mesh," 16 Dec. 2018 Shooting victims are often shuttled to larger hospitals but some, like Cormer Children’s Hospital, have adapted their trauma centers to accommodate Chicago’s combat-zone like conditions. — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, "Chicago's children caught in the crossfire: Alarming number of minors shot or killed in violence-plagued city," 31 Aug. 2018 That presentation was quickly pulled after the press noticed it, but doing some time-zone math, the original time for the Hot Chips talk occurs about two hours after Nvidia’s Gamescom event kicks off. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "New GeForce graphics cards inbound? Nvidia teases Gamescom event with 'spectacular surprises'," 30 July 2018 LEGO NINJAGO Training Camp – Earlier this year, LEGOLAND premiered the Ultimate Lego NINJAGO Experience which includes a new play-zone called the Lego NINJAGO Training Camp. — Shari Perkins, ajc, "The Insider's Guide to LEGOLAND Discovery Center," 11 July 2018 Only Spain and Greece, whose economies have been ravaged by the euro-zone crisis, have more households earning less than half the nation's median income - an indicator that unusually large numbers of people either are poor or close to being poor. — Andrew Van Dam, chicagotribune.com, "Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not compared with the rest of the developed world.," 5 July 2018 Only Spain and Greece, whose economies have been ravaged by the euro-zone crisis, have more households earning less than half the nation’s median income — an indicator that unusually large numbers of people either are poor or close to being poor. — Andrew Van Dam, latimes.com, "The economy is hot, yet many U.S. workers feel left behind. A new report sheds some light," 5 July 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
MEDCottages are pre-fabricated and designed to be installed in the backyard behind the main home (zoning laws permitting, of course). — Christine Coppa, Country Living, "'Granny Pods' Allow Elderly Family Members to Live in a High-Tech Backyard Cottage," 13 Dec. 2018 Part of this is undoubtedly due to the city’s zoning laws, which have requirements baked in that obligate the creation of curbside parking spaces for each new building. — Shoshana Wodinsky, The Verge, "New York City is the perfect scooter market, but it’s also the most impossible," 11 Aug. 2018 Local zoning laws dictated that the footprint of the house remain the same, so McCurry worked within the original four walls. — Susan Kleinman, ELLE Decor, "American Revival," 5 July 2012 The building was moved to a lot zoned for multifamily use on the edge of the up-and-coming Dignowity Hill neighborhood. — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, "When moving day means moving the house," 31 May 2018 Seattle is attempting to upzone more of the city to accommodate its growing population; 13 percent of the city’s land area, which has been zoned for more density, has absorbed half of the city’s population increase since 2010. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "As cities confront climate change, is density the answer?," 11 Dec. 2018 Hundreds of companies and entities lobby the city each year on issues from zoning changes to local legislation. — Katie Honan, WSJ, "Amazon Spends on Lobbying New York City on Cloud Services," 26 Nov. 2018 The development is located in one of the only large areas in San Diego County that is zoned for new housing. — Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Are master-planned communities a development of the past?," 16 Apr. 2018 The site is the only one in Midtown zoned for single-family houses. — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, "Eco Homes adds single-family homes in Detroit's Midtown," 29 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'zone.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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What It Is
Zoning is a method of determining how people can use land and buildings within a certain area.
How It Works
Zoning typically delineates areas within a town acceptable for residential construction, commercial construction, industrial construction and agricultural space. It may also require things like sidewalks, street lights, crosswalks and bridges. Zoning is codified by municipalities, and those codifications -- zoning ordinances -- also may dictate building heights and the outer appearance of buildings in certain areas (for example, the city of Santa Fe, NM, encourages most commercial buildings to be covered in stucco).
Why It Matters
Zoning is what prevents hospitals from opening up next to city dumps, or beet farms from running through the middle of downtown Scranton, Pa. The idea is that when a community is orderly, it is more attractive, safer and has fewer conflicts among land users. Ironically, however, zoning ordinances often change because of conflicts between citizens and the government about how they should be able to use their own property.
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