The site, which is owned by the village, is a little under two acres.

"This peninsula, at under 500 acres, is the size of a small town," said an environmental official who asked not to be identified.

Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake.

It's just under a million acres - fifteen hundred square miles.

They said the plant would be built under 30 acres of the 74-acre golf course.

The average size of rice fields in Furukawa is slightly under three and a half acres.

Most of the lots are under two acres.

The highest hurdle for the developers, whose site is just under 20 acres, was the community's 10-acre zoning rules.

But his and the state's authority over wetlands under 12.4 acres is very shaky.

It could not use all the land and in the end took just under 40 million acres.