... Trees — redwoods, live oaks or blossoming fruit trees — are usually considered sturdy citizens of the sun-swept peninsula south of San Francisco, not criminal elements. But under a 1978 state law protecting homeowners’ investment in rooftop solar panels, trees that impede solar panels’ access to the sun can be deemed a nuisance and their owners fined up to $1,000 a day. The Solar Shade Act was a curiosity until late last year, when a dispute over the eight redwoods(a k a Tree No. 1, Tree No. 2, Tree No. 3, etc.) ended up in Santa Clara County criminal court....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/science/earth/07redwood.html?ref=us
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tower envelope study to replace setback
digital zoning analysis concentrated on relationship-oriented de/regulation of the built environment
About Me
- Mitch McEwen
- Mitch McEwen is Principal of A. Conglomerate, an emerging design practice based in Brooklyn, as well as Founder of SUPERFRONT. The Akademie Schloss Solitude has granted her a residency fellowship in architecture for 2012-2013. ArtNews profiled Mitch as a Designer to Watch in 2011. She has created workshops for the New Museum and Bard College and lectured at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Association of Architecture Organizations, Polytechnic Universty of Puerto Rico and elsewhere. She has taught at Columbia University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology and holds an MArch from Columbia GSAPP and AB from Harvard.
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tower envelope study to replace setback
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