Industry would receive incentives to acquire nearby land and regulations would be loosened to make it easier for entrepreneurs and minority small business owners to start companies in commercial districts.
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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.
In the ensuing decade, Oregon pioneered tough land-use regulations, curbing industries that relied on forest products and declaring war on suburban sprawl.
In loosely regulated metropolitan housing markets, like Houston, Texas, the relationship between the MID and home ownership is stronger because there is a lot of vacant land and zoning regulations are not very strict.
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Differences in supply constraints can explain much of the striking disparity between American states, from the modest run-up in prices in Texas, where land is easily available, to the huge surge in places like Nevada, where land-use regulations are tighter.
Some firms are also thought to be considering a challenge to Quebec's regulations on land use.
The high cost mainly resulted from land acquisition and city regulations, Reichard says.
"There's always a lot that goes into the final price tag of these venues"--from amenities to regulations to land acquisition.
They first look at tightly regulated metropolitan markets, like Boston, Massachusetts, with a meager supply of land and strict zoning regulations.
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Those who buy them, own the home but pay a pitch fee to the site operator, who owns the land and imposes rules and regulations.
Housing shortages are exacerbated by lack of available land, by our laborious planning regulations and by a particularly effective green lobby.
Although widely praised, these stringent regulations also drove up land prices and, ironically, prompted many middle-class residents to move away, including across the border into Washington.
The demand for space in cities is largely a product of regulations that demand valuable land be wasted on parking, limit mixed-use zoning and restrict the height of buildings.
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For example, should companies be forced to pay for the clean-up of contaminated land, even though they polluted the land long before the relevant environmental regulations were in place?
In particular, some developing countries are angry at what they see as western nations' attempts to insert new loopholes into regulations on how emissions from land use change are accounted for, which could allow western nations to cut actual emissions by less than they have pledged.
Earlier, MGI research found that product market regulations, the lack of clear land titles and pervasive governmental ownership were preventing India from achieving 10 percent annual GDP growth.
The properties posing the most promise among safe-haven investors: highly unique, irreplaceable structures (whether due to construction costs or building regulations) on coveted swaths of land in desirable internationally recognized locales like New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
For now, airlines operating in the EU or US generally comply with regulations in the countries where their aircraft land.
While some of their offices are situated there, they were unable to develop much of it due to restrictive regulations in the form of the Urban Land Ceiling ( Regulation) Act.
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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.
These are supply side reforms in fiscal (taxation, especially corporate taxation, and government spending) policies and pro-competition and pro-growth changes in restrictive regulations (especially with respect to labor, agriculture, and land use).
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It establishes that the resources of the moon should be shared and that while sovereign nations may explore or build bases, they cannot claim land as their own and must be open to a wide range of United Nations rules, regulations and inspections.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has also failed to solidify any scientific data that would lead to harsher safety or environmental regulations.
In a move that could spell more trouble for Dubai's Emaar Properties, revenue officials from India's Enforcement Directorate Thursday raided Emaar MGF Land, the Indian unit of the UAE developer, in New Delhi for allegedly violating foreign exchange regulations.
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