buffer zone

The new plan creates a buffer zone between housing and industry and attempts to blunt gentrification with affordable housing policies.

It would have blocked new permits for oil and gas wells and required wells be surrounded by a 2,500-foot buffer zone.

Chester points to the Netherlands, where local governments created the Room for the River initiative to increase buffer zones around rivers and change the way flood-prone areas are used.

The Hanford Reach National Monument, in eastern Washington, is a wildlife refuge on a corner of the country’s biggest nuclear clean-up, where hikers can visit the buffer zone away from the test site.