Land Management And Planning

Public uses for mass transportation such as roads, subways, bus stations and airports and private uses for public lands such as grazing, logging and mining.

Zoning laws generally restrict development in an area to similar types of structures or developments that will be put to similar uses. Businesses like factories and animal stockyards can be sources pollution that are highly undesirable and potentially harmful in a residential neighborhood. Zoning laws would prevent such businesses from being established next to an existing residential neighborhood and harming the residents.

a. the Clean Air Act

c. dirty coal

After World War II the only coal available to burn residentially, either for cooking or warmth, was of poor quality and contained large amounts of contaminants that made its fumes toxic. So when millions of homes in London burned this low quality coal and the local atmosphere over and around London stagnated, there was nowhere for the fumes to go. This stagnation allowed the toxic coal fumes to build up until they became physically harmful to humans and animals.

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c. new development from negatively impacting established businesses and residents

Old houses being converted into businesses, farmland being developed for residential and non-agricultural commercial purposes or factories and industrial sites being closed and redeveloped.

d. Idaho

d. none of the above

false

b. Unprotected lands exist inside federal parks.

b. They can prevent new development that would harm established residents.

a. 2%

true

false

c. corporate directors

b. Millions of coal fires and stagnant air caused toxic fumes to build up in the air.

b. the uses an area of land can be put to

d. all of the above