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Huntington Beach, meanwhile, has been more defiant, refusing for years to zone for thousands of new homes that the housing law had required.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

Planetary scientists call this the "Goldilocks zone", after the fairy tale girl who was fussy about the temperature of her porridge.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Iran also had around 100 million barrels of oil already at sea outside the blockade zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Travellers arriving from outside the Schengen zone will still have to show their passports to officials at Gibraltar's airport and port.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

While Mama tells the class the correct and incorrect ways of cooking vegetables—the microwave makes them soft but also wrinkles their skin—I zone out.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Priests used this odd object, divided into zones inscribed with the name of a god, as a teaching tool: In a sacrificed animal, departures from the liver’s usual features were viewed as messages from deities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The researchers propose that the zones where carbon burial occurs have gradually narrowed over geological time as low-oxygen waters moved deeper.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

The Lebanese presidency had announced on Monday that its delegation to Rome had been instructed "to demand the immediate start of Israeli forces' withdrawal from the two pilot zones before any further discussion".

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

After Iraq, he kept volunteering in disaster zones and conflict zones—Haiti, Belize, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, the Syrian border, the West Bank.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The adults among these children from the war zones would be lost in their thoughts during conversations with the elders of my town.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

In 2025, Texas passed bills legalizing housing on commercially zoned land and subdivisions of starter homes, which were rendered difficult or illegal to build by municipal zoning laws, large lot requirements, or other design requirements.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

She also believes the city has to dramatically expand the creation of new housing, reduce red tape for developers and introduce “gentle density” into single-family zoned neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

LOS ANGELES—Jason Grant thought he had found a gem: two adjacent parcels zoned for high-density housing in an amenity-rich neighborhood 3 miles from Venice Beach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

But the opportunity was thwarted when, in 2023, following pushback from some local residents, his township passed an ordinance that banned large solar projects from land zoned for agriculture.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026

There was way more to this story, but after a while I zoned out, letting Hadley go on and on, just adding “Huh” and “Uh-huh” whenever she paused.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

We debate zoning, density and affordable-unit mandates as though changing the rules automatically produces homes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

And conversely, industrial businesses moved into working-class neighborhoods because the land was cheaper and the zoning sometimes iffy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Its impact is likely to take time, since many zoning and construction rules are controlled by state and local governments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Mitchell was also named the president of the group, which was promising to “focus on policy areas like taxation, economic development incentives, deregulation and zoning at the state and local level.”

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

As usual in these cases, the city ignored the pleas of residents and granted Greenberg the zoning variance he wanted.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson