undevelopable

Examples

• All

• The land near the river is undevelopable because it frequently floods during heavy rains.

• The urban fringe is defined by the Census Bureau as those areas that have densities of at least 1,000 people per square mile and that are within 1.5 road miles, or 5 road miles if separated by some undevelopable land or water body.

  Academic text (2001)

• Although these changes still left about 500 lots undevelopable, the controversy subsided, and the setback rule remained in place.

  Academic text (1991)

• Undevelopable portions of block groups, such as "zero blocks," public lands, lakes and reservoirs, and steep slopes, can be removed using additional data layers.

  Academic text (2001)

• While there was little opposition during these public hearings, the Council was confronted in 1980, one year after the rule was adopted, by angry property owners and other real estate interests who realized that enforcement of the rule rendered many substandard coastal lots undevelopable.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the hypothetical, Jim is able to develop only thirty-five acres of a fifty-acre parcel before an environmental regulation renders the remaining fifteen acres undevelopable.

  Academic text (1996)

• The argument that a mitigation banking system can shield regulators from liability under the takings doctrine stems from the assumption that land deemed undevelopable because of wetlands contained thereon remains valuable when such a system is in place.

  Academic text (1994)

• Many areas of the city are considered undevelopable due to the presence of protected wetlands.

Synonyms

U

unexploitable

vsundevelopable

7.8

People cannot use it or develop it to make money

is about land that cannot be improved or built on physically

Antonyms

D

developable

1 5.3

Land and ideas that can be built on or improved

How Developable

developed

2.3

developable

1 5.3

undevelopable

• Specialized

7.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology