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I've seen open fields turn into massive housing tracts, ... And when I was in school, there were only two gangs.

John Mott
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We are by law required to provide certain public facilities. Water and sewer facilities require large tracts of land, and if we are precluded from obtaining large tracts of land, how are we going to be able to do that?

Steve Atkins
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Builders are running out of developable land. Developers are looking to the northern counties along the Treasure Coast to find large tracts.

Brad Hunter
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Divide a section up from one industrial owner to 16 new owners (of 40-acre tracts) and you have a bunch of driveways and cabins and new roads and lights. It affects wildlife. It affects timber management. You lose the connectivity.

Tom Duffus
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They manufacture for their own home line. It's almost like a job shop, where they produce trusses for their own sites and tracts throughout the region.

Steve Lantsberger
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Our objective … will be to give everyone involved the ability to look at each and every tract (of land proposed for sale), to satisfy themselves if they want to, that these tracts are worthy of what we are proposing.

Mark Rey
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There are not many tracts of property available for open space in the borough, and certainly it's proximity to the park makes it ideally suitable. The church could probably have made more money selling it to anyone else.

Michael Stokes
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A lot of the easy stuff, most of the large tracts, have been developed in the township. That leaves us with some smaller parcels, difficult pieces that may be complicated by physical features like difficult topography or vacant buildings and the environmental concerns that go along with them.

Jennifer Frey
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It looks like most of this is small in-fill development. As large tracts of land in the urban service boundary vanish, this is what is supposed to happen ? small in-fill projects.

Commissioner Lee Weberman
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Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Alexander Maclaren
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Hallowed ground, where more than 600,000 Americans gave their lives, is being paved over in favor of shopping malls, housing tracts and even gambling casinos.

James Lighthizer
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We're going to dinosaur-age beds, huge tracts of the Sahara that nomads may have crossed, but there's not a word written about that.

Paul Sereno
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We will probably drop some tracts from the candidate list.

Mark Rey
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While the birds still thrive on large, intensively managed quail plantations in north Florida, their numbers have declined in south Florida where changing land-use patterns have altered their preferred habitat. In fact, the landscape has changed so much that extensive tracts of land have become completely unproductive for quail.

Bill Giuliano
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Those are tracts that we think pretty much obviously have strong conservation values. Those values are protected under the current ownership and there is also public access.

Fred Fox
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One thing that has changed is the price of land. You try to go out and buy some farmland, and no one's wanting to sell the little tracts of 80 or 100 acres that people have always wanted.

Donnie Miller
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With that many tracts sold, at some point, they'll be building on them.

Jim Chambers
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From a local government standpoint, the cost of services is the principal issue. On a statewide basis, 35-acre tracts generate more costs than revenue.

Mark Reid
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It looks a lot better than I would have guessed. I would have guessed that Katrina families would have been relocated in tracts much more disadvantaged and more segregated than the region as a whole.

Myron Orfield
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