Repave vs Depave - What's the difference?
repave | depave |
To undo the act of paving; to remove pavement so as to restore the land to a more natural state.
:*Even though it caused much controversy, Mayor Daley was eventually lauded as a hero for his decision to depave Lake Shore Drive.
*1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work , page 223, Island Press
*:Environmental programs:'' Depaving ; auto free city centers; closure of roads''...
*1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back , page 356, University of California Press
*:Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.
*2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, "Depaving Paradise", Audubon Magazine [http://magazine.audubon.org/profile/profile0003.html]
*:Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars.
*2002 , Jan Lundberg, "Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org [http://www.culturechange.org/press_release3.html]
*:They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator
*2003 , Richard Register, "Depaving the World", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org [http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/rregister.html]
*:The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden.
*2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, "Miscellaneous Stuff", Carfree Family , at carfreefamily.blogspot.com [https://archive.is/20121203103059/carfreefamily.blogspot.com/2006/05/miscellaneous-stuff.html]
*:This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed.