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   "summary": "Regulates placing fill, removing topsoil and altering land grade; requires permits and sets environmental protection standards.",
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   "summary": "Designates all of Waterloo a site plan control area and delegates development-plan approval to the Director of Planning, with exemptions for low-density residential, institutional, farm and extractive uses.",
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   "summary": "Citywide comprehensive zoning bylaw: permitted land uses, lot dimensions, setbacks, building heights, parking requirements and landscaped-open-space rules by zone.",
   "adopted_date": "2018-09-10",
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