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  2. Reading, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Reading's poverty rate in the five-year American Community Survey, published in 2018, showed that 35.4% of the city's residents were below the poverty line, or less "than the infamous 41.3% from 2011, when Reading was declared the poorest small city in the nation." [14] Reading is located 38.8 miles (62.4 km) southwest of Allentown and 50 miles ...

  3. Berks County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Reading Public Museum in Reading is an art, science, and history museum. The Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps are an all-age drum corps based in Berks County. Founded in 1957, the corps is a charter member Drum Corps Associates and an 11-time DCA World Champion. Reading is home to Berks Opera Company, founded in 2007 as Berks Opera Workshop.

  4. Muhlenberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Reading Expo Center was located in the township just north of the city in proximity to the PA Route 12 expressway. Muhlenberg has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) and the hardiness zone is 6b. The average monthly temperature in Muhlenberg Park ranges from 29.7 °F in January to 75.0 °F in July. [4]

  5. Single-family zoning - Wikipedia

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    Zoning map of Winnipeg (1947); single-family zoning highlighted in yellow. Single-family zoning is a type of planning restriction applied to certain residential zones in the United States and Canada in order to restrict development to only allow single-family detached homes.

  6. Zoning in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Early postcard picturing the Equitable Building Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply citywide as a reaction to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway ...

  7. New Reading fire station is one step closer to becoming ... - AOL

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    Sep. 28—Construction for the new fire station in Reading will soon be underway. City Council awarded more than $7.7 million in contracts for construction of the new Ninth and Marion Fire Station.

  8. Zoning - Wikipedia

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    The Zoning Scheme of the General Spatial Plan for the City of Skopje, North Macedonia.Different urban zoning areas are represented by different colours. In urban planning, zoning is a method in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into "zones", each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones.

  9. Plat - Wikipedia

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    The creation of a plat map marks an important step in the process of incorporating a town or city according to United States law. Because the process of incorporation sometimes occurred at a courthouse , the incorporation papers for many American cities may be stored hundreds of miles away in another state .