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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"ordinances"”.
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The ordinances of 1784 and 1787
… An attempt is made to give the background of the ordinances, to treat them and their legislative histories in some detail, and to indicate why the earlier and more democratic one was replaced.
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A survey of zoning and building ordinances in Michigan and Florida
Thesis (B.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1949
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Ordinances to enable energy efficiency in rental housing in the United States
Improved energy efficiency in rental housing is important from the perspectives of environmental, economic, and social policy, but upgrades to such buildings lag those of owner-occupied properties. With myriad reasons to improve the efficiency of this sector, this thesis seeks to better understand …
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Reforming Hudud ordinances to reconcile Islamic criminal law with international human rights law
… rights laws are grossly violated by the hudud ordinances, with their extremely cruel punishments, including stoning for adultery, beheading for apostasy, and amputation for theft. Pakistan, Sudan, Brunei Darussalam and Saudi Arabia, for example, follow the doctrines of the four main Sunni …
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The distribution and objectives of local forestry-related ordinances in the United States
Five hundred and twenty-two forest regulatory ordinances were identified in 493 local governments. The majority of these laws are found in the northeastern United States, which account for over sixty percent of the national total. Southern states contain approximately thirty-percent of this total, …
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Survey and Analysis of Local Forestry-Related Ordinances in the Northeast, Mid-West, and Western United States
… the United States. A total of 388 local forestry ordinances were identified among the 35 states of the Northeast, Mid-West, and western regions of the United States. The Northeast contains the majority of local forest ordinances with 351. These ordinances are distributed among 8 states and many …
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Spare Some Change?: The Policing of Shelter-Resistant Homeless in Missoula, Montana
… San Francisco have implanted “Quality of Life” ordinances that criminalize certain facets of homeless life. Missoula, Montana has not been impervious to this trend and has a unique labor market that exaggerates the presence of poverty. In 2009, the City of Missoula passed two such ordinances …
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Spare Some Change?: The Policing of Shelter-Resistant Homeless in Missoula, Montana
… San Francisco have implanted “Quality of Life” ordinances that criminalize certain facets of homeless life. Missoula, Montana has not been impervious to this trend and has a unique labor market that exaggerates the presence of poverty. In 2009, the City of Missoula passed two such ordinances …
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Shaping an Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance for Post-Katrina New Orleans
… compares the model ordinance, passed in 2007, to ordinances in San Francisco, Denver, and San Diego. These large city ordinances offer an assessment of older versus newer ordinances as well as strict versus lenient provisions within a mandatory ordinance. This thesis acknowledges the model …
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Evaluating the prevalence and effectiveness of breed-specific legislation
… of the regulatory actions of 100 breed-specific ordinances, the standardized terminology proposed to discuss BSL is: <em>declaration, restriction, ban,</em> and <em>grandfather clause.</em></p> <p>Municipal ordinances with breed-specific language were located through compilation of existing lists …
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Urban Riparian Areas: Ecological And Streamside-Ordinance Assessments
Streamside protection ordinances have been established in many urbanizing areas; however, there has been a paucity of assessments of the effectiveness of such ordinances. A quantitative assessment of the ecological impairments in an urban river system can provide a key component in a basin-scale …
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Zoned out: Conflict and perceived threat in a rural-urban fringe area
… the positive and negative consequences of zoning ordinances, often focusing the analysis on neighborhood change. This study inductively examines the conflict that emerged in one county when new zoning ordinances were proposed through an in-depth analysis of nearly 300 newspaper forums, …
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Mormon temple architecture and the spaces of ritual
… restricted function- the performance of sacred ordinances. Mormons believe that these ordinances are necessary to prepare individuals to return to the presence of God. In the church today the temple is seen as the pinnacle of a member's worship and to attend the temple a sign of one's commitment …
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Encouraging low-impact-development stormwater-management practices / Assabet River Watershed sub-basin case study
Regulatory codes and ordinances create a framework that guide stormwater management decision processes. These regulations are designed to protect the health and safety of the public and to preserve the natural integrity of the environment. Using a case-study approach in Acton, Massachusetts, a …
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Just As I Was: The Presence of Sacramentalism in the Methods of Southern Baptist Revivalism
… in the Roman Catholic Church to the ordinances in Southern Baptist churches. For the section on Roman Catholicism, three major figures will be examined: Augustine, Lombard, and Aquinas. One will then see how the work of those three functions within the Roman Catholic Church today. …
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Methods of determining stream setback corridors in urban watersheds from remotely sensed data in the Dallas metropolitan area, Texas.
… prompting cities to create buffer zone ordinances to prevent the loss of future structures. Unfortunately, most ordinances probably misjudge buffer zone widths due to the lack of sufficient topographic accuracy for their delineation. However, this study utilizes observations based from …
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Analyzing the flexibility of inclusionary zoning : should affordable units be built on-site or off-site?
… fulfill the obligations imposed by inclusionary ordinances through alternative means of compliance: namely, off-site construction of affordable units or fee payments in-lieu of construction. Such flexibility is the primary focus of this thesis: how flexible are cities in the ways developers are …
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Inclusionary Zoning: Identifying Possible Legal Challenges within Canada and How Best to Pre-empt Them
… legal challenges posed to inclusionary zoning ordinances are then extrapolated and applied to the Canadian context, the fundamental legal issues pertinent to Canadian municipalities become illuminated. What has been observed is that there have been a number of different arguments used, against …
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How to Humanize a Zoning Ordinance: Practicing the Art of the Possible While Writing Laws for Bureaucrats and Citizens
… totally unaware of such techniques. Many zoning ordinances feature ponderous, legalistic prose and pedestrian page layout. This paper provides simple guidelines that should help persons untrained in professional writing to produce documents that a lay reader of average literacy can easily …
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The social cost of low wages
Introduction: Living wage ordinances require city-contracted firms to pay their workers a wage that is set above the state's minimum wage. The first ordinance was implemented in Baltimore in 1994, in recognition that workers earning close to the minimum wage do not earn enough to be able to meet …
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