Land Compromise Pushed
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By Sean Whaley  By SEAN WHALEY  R
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By Lena Warmack, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 17--Developers with one of Catawba County's largest proposed residential developments are expected to seek rezoning on more than 2,000 acres this spring.
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By Tom Shaw, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 17--State lawmakers continue to propose ways of keeping money in the pockets of landowners whose property is in the so-called greenbelt program.   State Sen.
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By Sally Connell, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 17--Even as the project to ship water from Nacimiento Lake to homes and businesses in the North County and San Luis Obispo is nearing construction, some property owners are resisting plans to lay the pipeline across their land.
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By By Mariecar Mendoza, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep. 12--In a move possibly without precedent, the Arroyo Grande City Council might take a contentious housing tract proposal out of planners' hands and decide itself whether it moves forward.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 10--The new Kootenai County Commission will delve into the local debate over affordable housing tonight when it considers whether to allow homes to be built on 290 acres of farmland on the Rathdrum Prairie.
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By Brian Callaway, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 22--The legal battle over changes to open space protections that would have allowed a new YMCA to be built on preserved land in Richland Township may be drawing to a close.
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A dispute over Columbia's last large piece of undeveloped land is shaping as up as a battle that may be less about competing plans and more about who's in control of Howard County.
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Peasants want to own their land and have organized rallies in several provinces. More are planned.
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By Lucia Walinchus, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Sep. 8--AWENDAW -- More than 100 people packed the unairconditioned Town  Hall on Thursday night, many attempting to put a stop to the area's first big  housing development. It didn't work, as council rezoned the rural tract.
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By JULIAN WALKER; OLYMPIA MEOLA  A group of Henrico County residents took issue with new homes proposed for their area, and they told their supervisors so. Their opposition could cost them more than $5 million.
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By Jeremy Harrell  Suffolk County is poised to become the new home of CanonUSA after a mediation session Wednesday produced an accord between developers whose feud threatened to scuttle the move.
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By MARGARET K. COLLINS, STAFF WRITER  WAYNE  Township officials still hope for tax-generating development on the last big tract of available land in town. But after having butted their heads against state environmental restrictions in the past, they're now willing to go along to get along.
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Namibia's managing of its land conflict as it aims for a fairer distribution of land between white and black farmers has ramifications for the region.
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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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Property owners' resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about its feasibility.
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Congress is on the verge of approving half a dozen bills that would protect as much as 1 million acres of wilderness areas across the West, but the move has infuriated environmentalists who charge that lawmakers are giving away too much pristine public land to real estate developers and local...