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2. Road verge - Wikipedia

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   Road verge. A curb strip in suburban Greater Boston, Massachusetts. Outside of rural areas in New England, devil strips are narrow – the one pictured is 52 inches (130 cm; 1.3 m) from curb to sidewalk. They are usually not maintained by the municipality, but rather by the property owner, and are used primarily to provide space for utility poles.

3. Setback (land use) - Wikipedia

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   Setback (land use) In land use, a setback is the minimum distance which a building or other structure must be set back from a street or road, a river or other stream, a shore or flood plain, or any other place which is deemed to need protection. [1] Depending on the jurisdiction, other things like fences, landscaping, septic tanks, and various ...

4. Sidewalk - Wikipedia

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   Sidewalk. A sidewalk (American English), [1] pavement (British English & Canadian English), [2] footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway is a path along the side of a road. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone, or asphalt, it is designed for pedestrians. [3]

5. Road surface - Wikipedia

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   Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands. Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City. A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway.

6. Permeable paving - Wikipedia

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   Permeable paving. Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can flow between the gaps. Permeable paving can also include a variety of surfacing techniques for roads, parking lots, and pedestrian walkways. Permeable pavement surfaces may be ...

7. Greenway (landscape) - Wikipedia

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   A greenway is usually a shared-use path along a strip of undeveloped land, in an urban or rural area, set aside for recreational use or environmental protection. [1][2] Greenways are frequently created out of disused railways, canal towpaths, utility company rights of way, or derelict industrial land.