The guidelines developed for Anguilla (Cambers, 1996a) have been incorporated into the National Land-use Development Plan and are being implemented.
Land use and development patterns can play a positive role, as well.
The site, which counts some 15 villages within its 42 square kilometres, is also threatened by pressures on land use for development and tourism.
The quasi-governmental Rural Development Center suggests extending land-use contracts for 100 years and allowing people to pass the right to farm the land on to their children.
One would like to believe that someone has something better in mind this time around than this quixotic and opportunistic kind of unplanned land use and special-interest development.
Otherwise there will be no chance of the many reforms required outside the forestry sector: in land-use planning and rural development, in agriculture, energy and infrastructure policies, and much else.
The folks in Boulder County, Colorado were unfortunately able to see this phenomenon play out first hand on December 4 at a public hearing regarding proposed land use regulations for oil and gas development that are under consideration by the Boulder County Board of Commissioners.
Impacts from changes in land use, water diversions, and infrastructure development continue to drive the degradation and loss of wetlands.
"The main land use issue concerns the impact of the development on the architectural and historic interest of Lower Soughton Hall, " said the report to Flintshire councillors.
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Government officials in both countries have enormous influence over contracts and procurement, development and infrastructure projects, loan approvals, real estate transactions, land use rights, and preferences in regulated industries.
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But Open Spaces Society general secretary Kate Ashbrook said that the development is earmarked for registered common land which the public has the right to use.
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Saint Consulting, an American outfit specialising in land use, found that almost a third of Britons oppose the development of new homes in their communities, compared with 11% of Canadians and just 6% of Americans.
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Land use in Japan is severely restricted by municipal zoning, agricultural land development, and fisheries and port management laws and regulations.
He also argues that avoiding all development on risky areas would mean forgoing some of the brown-field land which the government is keen to use: Mr Prescott wants 60% of new homes built on brown-field sites.
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