There were also cases of SAPS aid being paid for abandoned land.
Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
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The Roman Emperor Pertinax granted 10 years tax immunity and free land to those who would take over agricultural land abandoned because of heavy taxation.
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However, the huge swathes of abandoned former forest land alongside previous road schemes show that, in fact, much of the region lacks suitable soil and climate for agriculture.
We have repeatedly sought passage of enterprise zones to help those in the abandoned corners of our land find jobs, learn skills, and build better lives.
Yet the glory of the island lies outside the modest settlement, where the land is abandoned entirely to a wilder version of the Mediterranean greenery seen at the Domaine du Rayol.
Though it spent billions on Chernobyl, it simply abandoned vast amounts of contaminated land making them into exclusions zones.
FAO, some 300, 000 hectares (1, 170 square miles) of land have simply been abandoned because of the collapse of the irrigation system and the lack of pesticides, fertilisers and machinery.
Much of it has been abandoned and there's no central land registry of ownership.
Scientists will investigate whether the flooding has contaminated land with harmful metals from abandoned mines.
One cruel irony is that, in a city pocked with abandoned properties, it is hard to find land for development.
In 1973 he bought an abandoned monastery on 480 acres of untouched mountaintop land overlooking the Adriatic Sea and planted a crop of organic durum wheat.
New roads and electrical and water connections stretch for miles, leading to plots of empty land where past owners long ago abandoned plans to build even more houses.
As part of their training, they sometimes land helicopters on the fairways of an abandoned Donald Ross golf course at the base and storm mansions, stables and other buildings that were owned and regularly used by the Rockefeller family as recently as the late 1990s.
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The Palestinians' decision to reject statehood at Camp David in 2000 and launch a terror war against Israel made clear that they had not abandoned their refusal from 1947 to accept partition of the Land of Israel with the Jews.
Vietnam has abandoned plans to close a bear sanctuary at the heart of a land dispute in one of its national parks.
To pass through is to see mostly abandoned or shuttered buildings in a bleak no-man's land under the watchful gaze of Israeli surveillance balloons.
Wedged on a narrow spit of land near the marshy flatlands of the Rio de la Plata, the abandoned docklands had no streets, a few gutted buildings and "chest-high grass, " Austin Hearst, an early investor, remembers.
Researchers addressing the British Association's science festival in Leicester last month said a new directive from Brussels could lead to radical changes in the way agricultural land was managed across Europe, with some types of farming being scaled back or even abandoned in some of their traditional areas.
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