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  2. Blocking (construction) - Wikipedia

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    Blocking placed as attachment points for cabinets, while doubling as bracing against compression of the studs. Blocking ( dwang , nog, noggin, and nogging) is the use of short pieces of dimensional lumber in wood framed construction to brace longer members or to provide grounds for fixings.

  3. Blockbusting - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, other states' legislation allowed lawsuits against real estate companies and brokers who cheated buyers and sellers with fraudulent representations of declining property values, changing racial and ethnic neighborhood populations, increasing crime rates, and the "worsening" of schools, as results of racial mixing.

  4. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    The Lot and Block system is perhaps the simplest of the three main survey systems to understand. For a legal description in the Lot and Block system a description must identify: the individual lot, the block in which the lot is located, if applicable, a reference to a platted subdivision or a phase thereof,

  5. Fire blocking - Wikipedia

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    Fire blocking or firestopping is a system of supplemental components in a wood-framed wall or ceiling, which prevents the rapid propagation of fire within a combustible framing cavity to other areas. Description and function

  6. Plat - Wikipedia

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    The rules normally allow such plats only when all the platted lots remain unsold and no construction of buildings or public improvements has taken place. [citation needed] Other names associated with parcel maps are: land maps, tax maps, real estate maps, landowner maps, lot and block survey system and land survey maps.

  7. Spite house - Wikipedia

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    The wooden building located between 23 and 25 River St. was the width of a standard stairway and allowed the butcher to block the sun to the neighbor's home and block the neighbor's view of the butcher's property at will. [22] [23] The butcher's son got along with the family next door and eventually tore down the Collinsville Spite House. [22]

  8. Wattsburg solar farm battle not done yet. Developer appeals ...

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    Residents also objected to the removal of more than 100 acres of trees for solar farm construction, but the township does not prohibit tree removal on private property and it is not grounds for ...

  9. Real estate development - Wikipedia

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    Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.