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  2. Height restriction laws - Wikipedia

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    A skyscraper called Torre Eurosky (Eurosky Tower), built in 2012 in EUR neighbourhood (outside the ban area) exceeds this limit being 155 m (509 ft) high. There is however a height restriction for new onshore wind turbines in the European Union, which set their total height to 200 m (660 ft). [12] [citation needed]

  3. Height of Buildings Act of 1910 - Wikipedia

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    Section 5 added the restriction that the height of any building would be limited to the width of the adjacent street plus 20 feet (6.1 m) up to a maximum of 90 feet (27 m) on residential streets, 130 feet (40 m) on commercial streets, and 160 feet (49 m) on a small portion of the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue between 1st and 15th Streets ...

  4. Height of Buildings Act of 1899 - Wikipedia

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    An urban myth holds that the buildings in Washington D.C. are currently, or were at one time, restricted to the height of the U.S. Capitol building. [7] In fact, the 1899 law set the maximum height of any building to 130 feet (39.6 m), [8] the height limit that firefighting equipment could effectively reach at the time, [2] and not the 289 feet (88 m) of the Capitol building.

  5. Oversize load - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, an oversize load is a vehicle and/or load that is wider than 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m). Each individual state has different requirements regarding height and length (most states are 13 ft 6 in or 4.11 m tall), and a driver must purchase a permit for each state he/she will be traveling through.

  6. Panamax - Wikipedia

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    With the new locks, the Panama Canal is able to handle vessels with overall length of 366 m (1201 feet), 49 meters beam (increased by the Canal Authority effective 1 June 2018 to 51.25 meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2 meters draft, [2] and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); [14 ...

  7. List of tallest buildings and structures in London - Wikipedia

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    The first structure to surpass a height of 100 metres (328 ft) was the Old St Paul's Cathedral. Completed in 1310, it stood at a height of 150 metres (492 ft). [2] St Paul's was the world's tallest structure until 1311, when its height was surpassed by Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln.

  8. Height - Wikipedia

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    Height is normal to the plane formed by the length and width. Height is also used as a name for some more abstract definitions. These include: The height or altitude of a triangle, which is the length from a vertex of a triangle to the line formed by the opposite side; The height of a pyramid, which is the smallest distance from the apex to the ...

  9. Tree volume measurement - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Middleton Live Oak (Quercus virginiana), height 67.4 feet, dbh 10.44 feet, crown spread 118 feet) was found to have a trunk volume of 970 ft 3 (24.5 m 3) and a branch volume of 3,850 ft 3 (109 m 3) [15] The branch volume was almost 4x that of the trunk.