Group Ends Pitches for Home Easements
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The National Architectural Trust, the country's fastest-growing historic preservation organization, has stopped soliciting facade easement donations after complaints that homeowners have used the donations to claim millions of dollars in excessive income tax deductions.
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The D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission yesterday abandoned a plan to build condominiums, shops and parking garages next to the new Nationals baseball stadium in Southeast Washington, dealing a major setback to Mayor Anthony A. Williams's hope that the project would spark renewal of the...
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By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Feb. 25--Two proposals to build homes on less than a full acre on properties touching the county's urban development boundary were unanimously rejected by the Redland Community Council on Wednesday.
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By Karen Holzmeister  CASTRO VALLEY -- Yet another former chicken ranch is in the news, facing the competing issues of preservation versus development.   Hayman Homes of Burlingame is temporarily shelving plans to subdivide 10.5 acres on Proctor Road for 22 homes.
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By Mike Torralba, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 8--MONROE -- The City Council has narrowly rejected a proposal that would have loosened restrictions on the number of duplexes in Monroe's historic residential district.
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By Nancy Bowman Staff Writer  TIPP CITY -- Property owners whose proposal to build housing just west of Interstate 75 was shot down by the city hope a new development concept gets a more "friendly" response.
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The home improvement chain has finally sold off its HD supply unit to a private equity group.
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PADUA, Sep 5 (IPS) - 'Stop the Wall', say the posters on the  three-metre high metal panels that have come up to  isolate the  migrant estate on Anelli Road from their surroundings in Padua.
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Single-family home builder M/I Homes Inc.  said on Monday it has sold land in its Florida markets to help reduce debt, and is exiting the West Palm Beach market, where its assets included about 500 lots in four communities.
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By Denis CuffSTAFF  A conservation group announced a deal last week to buy a half- square-mile of spring-fed grasslands and oak forests north of Clayton, where county-approved growth limits scuttled plans to build housing.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 2--Instead of selling housing to Destin workers, the Destin Community Land Trust's rules would deny workers the chance to own a home, a trust board member says.
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By Justin Faulconer, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 8--The Bedford County Board of Supervisors and the Bedford Planning Commission voted to remove a Historical Overlay zoning district to a 20-acre parcel in Forest on Monday.
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Residents will get a chance to tell the city council what they think about an ordinance that would halt the conversion of single-family houses into rental units for at least six months.
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Environmental groups asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out a deal that removed environmental protections for millions of acres of potential wilderness areas around the country.
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Growing numbers of people are being squeezed out of the housing market, researchers have concluded.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 10--WARSAW  -- The Richmond County Board of Supervisors late Thursday night killed a proposed subdivision slated for one of the most important bald-eagle habitats on the East Coast.
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A demonstration by pro-hunt campaigners outside Peter Hain's home in south Wales comes to a peaceful end.