Word: caps
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Under an agreement being negotiated between the municipal government and state and federal environmental agencies, the city would establish "an absolute cap" on the number of new parking spaces, according to Councillor Edward A. Cyr. However, the city would be allowed to grant permits for up to 900 more commercial spaces if it removed an equal number of illegal spaces...
...addition to the absolute cap, the proposed plan would provide for a citizens' commission that would approve all future construction of parking spaces. The agreement would also outline specific means by which the restrictions would be enforced. It would remain in effect for a year or two until permanent guidelines were established...
...That night 100,000 people jammed Harlem's Africa Square, content to gaze at the visiting hero whose voice could barely be heard over a feeble public-address system. Later, 50,000 cheered Mandela at a rally in Yankee Stadium, where he delighted his audience by donning a baseball cap and declaring, "You now know who I am. I am a Yankee...
...resistance from the shipping and oil industries. One objection involves the timetable for putting double hulls on current tankers. The main obstacle concerns limits on the liability of tanker owners. The shippers want the U.S. to approve international standards adopted since 1984 by most European nations. These protocols would cap a company's cleanup costs at $78 million (Exxon says it has already spent $2 billion on its Valdez fiasco) and prevent nations from imposing more; yet the congressional bills would set higher liability limits in the U.S. and let the states go beyond the federal standards, as Alaska currently...
...home buyers. To offset the cost of sewage and street building, parks and schools, local governments began imposing "impact fees" of as much as $25,000 for a newly built home. So it was no less important that California voters also agreed last week to loosen the state spending cap and exclude certain expenditures from the limits...