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  2. District Plan - Wikipedia

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    A district plan is a statutory planning document of New Zealand's territorial authorities. Mainly covering land use / zoning questions, they have been required since the advent of the Resource Management Act 1991 . [ 1 ]

  3. Efforts to reform the United States Electoral College

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    One advocate for the amendments, James Madison, wrote in 1823 that the district plan "was mostly, if not exclusively, in view when the Constitution was framed and adopted." [ 8 ] Between 1813 and 1824 the Senate approved amendments for the district plan four different times, and the House approved a separate amendment in 1820.

  4. Territorial authorities of New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    The entire Papakura District would be dissolved between urban and rural councils. The National-led Government responded within about a week. Its plan, which went to a Select Committee, accepted the proposal for supercity and many community boards, but rejected proposals for local councils and, initially, no separate seats for Māori.

  5. Local planning authority - Wikipedia

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    For most matters, the planning authority is the borough, district or unitary council for the area. The non-metropolitan county councils (where they exist) are the planning authorities for minerals, waste and their own developments, such as most schools, care homes, fire stations and highways.

  6. Concentric zone model - Wikipedia

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    Based on human ecology theory done by Burgess and applied on Chicago, it was the first to give the explanation of distribution of social groups within urban areas.This concentric ring model depicts urban land usage in concentric rings: the Central Business District (or CBD) was in the middle of the model, and the city is expanded in rings with different land uses.

  7. District Planning Committee - Wikipedia

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    A district planning committee (DPC) is the committee created as per article 243ZD of the Constitution of India at the district level [1] [2] for planning at the district and below. The committee in each district should consolidate the plans prepared by the Panchayats and the municipalities in the district and prepare a draft development plan ...

  8. Home rule in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state (typically by legislative action) or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action.

  9. Category:Urban studies and planning terminology - Wikipedia

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