Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed amendment will require a two-thirds vote of the council to pass, Geer said. However, should 20 percent of the property owners in the area object to the proposal, the required percentage of votes jumps to three-fourths...
...Since this is a citywide zoning proposal, it is quite a bit more unlikely that a contingent of 20 percent of the citizens will object," Geer said...
...staffers intermittently stare at the clock. The earlier conversations have largely died down. During the lull, VanDyke reflects on the object of all this waiting...
Observers, however, said that the bill wouldnot be passed because citizens would object tohaving incinerators burning "hazardous waste"instead of "medical waste" in their communities...
...this is about as expected, Willey says on the drive home. If he can get all sides to settle on a price, his next job may be more difficult. In its last days, the Reagan Administration stated it had no objections to water marketing (in a memo written by an Assistant Secretary now handling water- project bonds at Drexel Burnham Lambert). But other voices may object to the idea that farmers who receive subsidized water for crops, and further subsidies not to grow those crops, should profit handsomely on the sale of the subsidized water. Willey argues that the profits...