planning blight

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noun

the harmful effects of uncertainty about likely restrictions on the types and extent of future development in a particular area on the quality of life of its inhabitants and the normal growth of its business and community enterprises

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How to use planning blight in a sentence

And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
News clips, sound bites, and planning details were shared on those platforms.
China’s Internet Is Freer Than You Think|Brendon Hong|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.
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Hearst is to be released from prison and is planning to marry.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Today many in the economics and urban planning professions consider such factors close to irrelevant.
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead|Joel Kotkin, Richey Piiparinen|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All the miserable stratagems they had been guilty of to win him; the dishonest plotting and planning.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
There is still mademoiselle, with her new-formed friends in Paris—may a pestilence blight them all!
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Darry and Burd were planning another trip on the Marigold, and so had little time to give to the girl chums of Roselawn.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
I wanted to jump and shout, but I compromised by taking Dr. Hudson down for a gleeful drink and planning our next tactic.
Nine Men in Time|Noel Miller Loomis
When he discovered the monster who was planning this crime, he pleaded so eloquently that pussys life was saved.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky