Word: building
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...addition. Old Colony officials said they hope to complete an important environmental report by February, clearing the way to build a new bridge burned down shortly after service on the line was abandoned in 1959 following the opening of the Southeast Expressway...
...woeful. The prisons teem with criminals who are often released before their original sentences expire to make room for others. More than 300,000 newcomers arrive annually, straining a system already near the breakpoint. The state department of education estimates that it must absorb 800,000 new students and build 933 new schools during the next decade just to keep pace with growth...
...Francisco, where densely packed office towers have overshadowed the city's natural skyline, voters in November rejected a proposal to build a baseball stadium downtown. In last month's mayoral runoff election, they spoke even more forcefully by overwhelmingly rejecting Establishment Candidate John Molinari in favor of onetime Neighborhood Activist Art Agnos. Meanwhile, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, along with dozens of other California cities, have passed the most severe growth restrictions in the state's history...
...Sanford Goodkin: "A stranger is defined as anyone who bought a house the day after I did." He and others claim that the effect of growth controls will be most severe on the poor, cutting jobs and investment in their neighborhoods. But developers have never been eager to build in poorer areas, and many of those neighborhoods are equally concerned about congestion. In Los Angeles, Proposition U passed by large margins in all 15 council districts, including Watts and other low- income communities...
...allowing the city to seize the property upon which the college has long desired to build its new campus, the judgement clears the way for Emerson's possible move to Lawrence, said James R. Ball, spokesman for the Lawrence City Development Department...