no-build

adjective

Where new buildings are not allowed to be built.

“a no-build area, a no-build zone”

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Meanings

adjectiveno-build (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWhere new buildings are not allowed to be built.

    a no-build area, a no-build zone

    3 more examples

    There are 80-year-old trees and 90-year-old buildings standing in what has suddenly been designated a no-build area.

    1979, Wyoming State Land Use Plan, page 106

    Jefferson County has adopted the mapped hazard area as part of its geologic-hazards overlay, and has considered it to be a “no-build” area.

    2002, D. M. Abbott Jr., D. C. Noe, “The consequences of living with geology: A model field trip for the general public”, in Science at the Highest Level, page 9

    [...] from development (i.e., to say this area is a “no-build area”) a parcel of land already zoned developable.

    1998, Conservation Biology and Urban Sustainability, page 101

Translations

French inconstructible, imbâtissable
  • inconstructiblewhere new buildings are not allowed to be built
  • imbâtissablewhere new buildings are not allowed to be built
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APA

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Chicago

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