easement
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When Levy built his home, he offered a public-access easement as a condition of his permit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
In 2015, Trump announced he would forgo his plans to build homes on 16 additional lots, instead granting an 11.5-acre conservation easement to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
"If they can win over just enough to clear enough hurdles to get the next easement or next little contract or permit approved, they know they'll be able to get their work done."
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024
At a cost of $5,000 to $20,000 for each easement, much of it going to pay lawyers, safeguarding history is not cheap.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
He meant with your mind, and Will did it instantly, sensing the minute snags and then the minute easement as the edges lined up perfectly.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
He put some of the first conservation easements in the country on Hope Plantation and St. Phillips Island, according to “Last Stand.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
And much of the flatland area that McNeill views as most appropriate for development is restricted by open space easements purchased by the county in the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
That means that any easements would have to be found within the bounds of the Windsor Framework.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2024
The pipeline had been installed in 1953 and, at the time, had received easements to do so from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023
The phrase "running with the land" is only appropriate to covenants which pass like easements.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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