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Cities used zoning power to encourage retail districts and financed shopping-center infrastructure such as freeway off-ramps.
Faded Malls Leave Cities in the Lurch Miguel Bustillo 2011
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If you have encountered a homeless person along the road, at freeway off-ramps, or at the local outdoor mall, you know homelessness is not as simple as categorizing everyone as scraggly men reeking of alcohol, caked with dirt.
Joel John Roberts: Are Federal Homeless Dollars Being Invested Into a Money Pit? Joel John Roberts 2011
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Cascade Station is perfect, because UNLIKE HOLGATE, there are on and off-ramps from I-205.
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The result of the Obama-Donilon approach to Afghanistan has been a policy of managed failure resulting from the President's announcement of "off-ramps" for the U.S. commitment, telegraphing the day and date of departure to the enemy.
Stephen Yates and Christian Whiton: Obama's Mini-Me Stephen Yates 2010
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Mr. O'Neill said the state was paying for the construction of off-ramps and other road infrastructure to make the site accessible from the parkway.
Don't Say Mall: It's a 'Mini-City' Craig Karmin 2011
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As an alternative he has pushed a bill co-sponsored with Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the "Low-Carbon Economy Act," which has weak targets, free permits, automatic off-ramps, and all the rest of the kinds of provisions that neuter a climate bill.
Wonk Room » Specter Joins Conservative Democratic Bloc On Climate And Energy 2009
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Cities used zoning power to encourage retail districts and financed shopping-center infrastructure such as freeway off-ramps.
Faded Malls Leave Cities in the Lurch Miguel Bustillo 2011
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You're stuck in a traffic jam and all the off-ramps are closed.
Super Hero Suicide Notes: The Flash Michael Wayne Hampton 2011
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I also never really have complaints biking the stretch, except on the hill with the turns and the off-ramps.
“Walk Bike Ride” Plan Would Narrow Nickerson for Bikes « PubliCola 2010
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That's how much the various breaks and deductions and off-ramps are projected to cost between 2011 and 2015.
One man's loophole is another man's R&D tax credit Ezra Klein 2011
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