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New Jersey's state environmental review requirements are comparatively less extensive than those in New York and certain other states, where the determination of project type (and the corresponding depth of the review process) is based on a more substantive classification of a project's likely impacts, rather than the simple cost or land-area ...
Recently, in some areas of the United States, setback requirements have been lowered so as to permit new homes and other structures to be closer to the street, one facet of the low impact development urban design movement. This permits a more usable rear yard and limits new impervious surface areas for the purposes of stormwater infiltration.
The act is intended to preserve both large volumes of New Jersey's fresh water sources for 5.4 million residents and the biodiversity in the area, in the face of increasing development in the exurbs of New York City. [3] The act was signed into law on August 10, 2004, by Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey. [2]
Many American cities passed residential segregation laws based on race between 1910 and 1917. Baltimore City Council passed such a law in December 1910. [42] [43] Unlike the Los Angeles Residential District which created well-defined areas for residential land use, the Baltimore scheme was implemented on a block-by-block basis.
New Jersey is one of 22 states that will see minimum wage increases on New Year's Day and one of eight total states (plus Washington, D.C.) that have a minimum wage of at least $15. More details ...
Pennsylvania repealed all state laws relating to fence viewers in 1992 but kept the terminology by stating that in disputes over division fences, the county surveyor, or a surveyor appointed by a judge of the court of common pleas, shall act as a fence viewer. The surveyor inspects the fence to determine sufficiency, or if the fence can be ...
A spite wall in Lancashire, England, built in 1880 by the owner of the land on the left, in reaction to the unwanted construction of the house on the right [1]. In property law, a spite fence is an overly tall fence or a row of trees, bushes, or hedges, constructed or planted between adjacent lots by a property owner (with no legitimate purpose), who is annoyed with or wishes to annoy a ...
Historic Districts in Hudson County, New Jersey; List of neighborhoods of Hudson County, New Jersey; Neighboring towns in Hudson County: Bayonne; North Hudson. North Bergen; Weehawken; Hoboken; Union City; West New York; Guttenberg; Secaucus; West Hudson