Protecting Nature's Estate: Techniques for Saving LandEmily Jane Stover |
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Page 44 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 113 - Conservation restriction" means a limitation, whether or not stated in the form of a restriction, easement, convenant or condition, in any deed, will or other instrument executed by or on behalf of the owner of the land described therein or in any order of taking such land whose purpose is to retain land or water areas predominantly in their natural, scenic or open condition or in agricultural, farming, forest or open space use. (b) "Preservation restriction...
Page 67 - The effective development of a region should not and cannot be made to depend upon the adventitious location of municipal boundaries, often prescribed decades or even centuries ago, and based in many instances on considerations of geography, of commerce, or of politics that are no longer significant with respect to zoning.
Page 7 - Fund are available for expenditure as provided in appropriation acts. Not less than 40 percent of annual appropriations are to be used for Federal purposes; these include activities and programs of the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service. The remainder of funds appropriated are apportioned among the States on the basis of statutory formula and criteria.
Page 117 - Now. therefore, in consideration of the sum of one dollar by each of the parties hereto to the other in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and In further consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions hereinafter contained, the parties hereto agree as follows: "First.
Page 46 - ... full knowledge of all the uses to which the property is adapted, and for which it is capable of being used.
Page ix - We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources, and we have just reason to be proud of our growth. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted, when the soils shall have been still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation.
Page 113 - ... shall be unenforceable on account of lack of privity of estate or contract or lack of benefit to particular land...
Page 67 - The Zoning Code lags, rather than leads, City development. There has been no comprehensive, over-all review of the Code since 1946. Since then there have been over 300 amendments to the text of the code and several thousand changes in the Zoning map, mainly as a result of individual requests and specific...
Page 7 - ... These agencies were selected because they have programs which deal with the acquisition, classification or management and use of natural areas. Funding agencies identified were : the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation ; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ; the Resource and Land Information program of the Geological Survey ; and several other Federal agencies listed in other categories which have appropriate grants-in-aid or other funding activities. The General category includes :...