Vacant property

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The reuse of vacant land and abandoned structures can represent an opportunity for the economic growth and recovery of a diverse range of urban areas. Vacant and abandoned property is a symptom of central city decline that has now become a problem in its own right.

Vacant land represents both a significant problem and an attractive opportunity for many central cities. Vacant land and abandoned structures impose both economic and social costs on cities and neighborhoods or districts in which they are located. On the economic side, such properties lower neighboring property values and tax revenues even as they create pressure to raise taxes to maintain service levels. Likewise, vacant land and abandoned structures impose significant social costs on communities as images of blight, as targets for vandalism and criminal activity, and as unsafe and unhealthy structures.

At the same time, though, vacant land holds out an opportunity for central cities when it is seen as a competitive asset in the implementation of economic development strategies. Vacant land development can generate new economic activity, increase tax revenue, improve transportation and physical amenities, and increase safety. It can also help cities to resolve their brownfield problems as well as reinforce "smart growth" practices by accommodating growth and development within existing urban areas.

Despite the need to understand better the problems and opportunities associated with vacant and abandoned properties, few efforts have attempted to comprehensively quantify their extent. Land use planners surveyed cities perceptions of their vacant land and abandoned structures problem and found that they were viewed as a serious concern. The survey has found that, on the average, 15 per cent of a city's land remains vacant. But while both surveys help to provide a better understanding of the issue and city responses to it, neither was comprehensive. The survey also found that city officials deemed aggressive building code enforcement the most effective technique to address vacant land and abandoned structures, followed by the use of tax foreclosure (used by 60 per cent of the surveyed cities).

To understand the full scope of the problems and opportunities associated with vacant lands and abandoned structures, we need systematic and ongoing data collection.

5.Найдите синонимы среди следующих слов:

Responsibilities, apply, similar, use, duties, various, homogenous, diverse, ownership, domain, suppose, levy, tax, deem.

6.Образуйте от данных слов антонимы при помощи отрицательных префиксов:

Im-: possible, mobility, material, mature, modest, measurability, memorial.

Il-: legal, liberal, legible, logical, legitimate, legitimacy, literacy.

7.Переведите следующие сочетания слов с русского на английский язык:

Перестройка земли, повторное использование, свободная земля, благоустройство города (нарядный рост), пустующие структуры, социальные затраты, цели для вандализма и криминальной деятельности, осуществление экономического развития, лучшее понимание проблем, налоговое лишение права выкупа, сбор данных, восприятие города, возможность для экономического роста.

8.Переведите следующие предложения с русского на английский язык:

1. Свободные земли и пустующие структуры должны заново использоваться. 2. 15% городских земель остаются свободными. 3. Ярлык свободной земли дается различным видам использованной и неиспользованной земли. 4. Законодательные реформы уже изданы для решения проблемы пустующих земель. 5. Землеустроители озабочены проблемой пустующих земель. 6. Экономические затраты возрастают из-за пустующих земель.

9.Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на форму сказуемого:

1. These strategies are grouped by 3 broad categories. 2. An important role is played by state governments. 3. Implementation of financing rules is carried out by eminent domain powers. 4. Legislative reforms have been successfully undertaken by some states. 5. Vacant lands must be reused. 6. The vacant land label is given to different used and unused parcels of land. 7. Legislation reforms have already been published to decide these problems.

10.Образуйте наречия от следующих прилагательных:

Successful, beneficial, wide, sufficient, official, high, quick, early, public, accurate.

11.Заполните пропуски предлогами:

1. The redevelopment... vacant and abandoned properties consists... five strategies. 2. Tax lien foreclosure process is greatly influenced... a tax collection system. 3. Vacant land problems are constantly being decided... local authorities. 4. Land redevelopment will be decided... new approaches. 5. Land surveyors are concerned... problems... vacant lands.

12. Поставьте вопросы к выделенным словам:

1. Legislative reforms have already been implemented to support urban land redevelopment. 2. The current set of tools remains deficient. 3. Productive use requires legislative powers. 4. States can be divided into three categories. 5. Eminent domain has been used to establish public parts, preserve places of historic interest.

13. Используйте глаголы, стоящие в скобках, в соответствующем времени и залоге и переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. Vacant land problems (to view) as a serious concern. 2. The vacant land label (to give) to many different types of used or unused parcels. 3. Legislative power (to require) to overcome the problems associated with vacant properties. 4. To support urban redevelopment legislative reforms already (to undertake). 5. Urban land development will (to promote) by the legislative reforms and approaches.

14. Ответьте на следующие вопросы:

1. Do vacant land and abandoned structures impose economic and social costs on cities? 2. What does vacant land represent? 3. Does vacant land hold out any opportunities? 4. What kind of opportunities does vacant land hold out? 5. What can vacant land development generate? 6. How can vacant land help city? 7. How many per cent of a city's land remains vacant? 8. Why have any states successfully undertaken legislation reforms?

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