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Along with the building code enhancements that are likely to emerge after these fires, change could come through land use innovations such as buying out landowners who don’t want to rebuild, putting restrictions on investors and swapping development rights.
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The temporary road cut across private property, upsetting some landowners who reached out to the N.C. Attorney General’s Office and the state Department of Transportation, the sheriff said.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2025
Instead, the Quebec Act, which the British Parliament passed in 1774, forged an alliance between the British Crown, Catholic priests, and wealthy landowners on the eve of the revolution.
—Lawrence B.a. Hatter / Made By History, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025
The members of his family who were taken in the dark of night were wealthy landowners in the area and were never heard from again.
—Willie J. Allen Jr., Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The temporary road cut across private property, upsetting some landowners who reached out to the N.C. Attorney General’s Office and the state Department of Transportation, the sheriff said.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2025
Instead, the Quebec Act, which the British Parliament passed in 1774, forged an alliance between the British Crown, Catholic priests, and wealthy landowners on the eve of the revolution.
—Lawrence B.a. Hatter / Made By History, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025
The members of his family who were taken in the dark of night were wealthy landowners in the area and were never heard from again.
—Willie J. Allen Jr., Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025
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“Landowner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landowner. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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