siting

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The act of selecting a location for something, especially a building or facility.

   Like a chess player deciding where to place a piece for the greatest advantage.

   The siting of the power plant sparked debate among local residents.

   Engineers studied the soil before deciding on the siting of the bridge.

   Similarplacement, positioning, location

   Note

   A planning and policy noun that can be counted: each decision is a siting, and the plural sitings comes naturally. Edward J. Walsh and Rex Warland's Don't Burn it Here (2010) writes of "attempted and successful sitings" of facilities across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That is its typical setting: contested projects and local controversy. It usually takes of, as in the siting of a plant or a landfill.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of site.

   The committee is siting the memorial in the town square.

   Siting a hospital requires good access to major roads.

   Note

   The -ing form of the planner's verb, which means to situate a building or construction project. The final e of site drops before the suffix, so siting keeps a single t. Christine M. Koontz's Library Facility Siting and Location Handbook (1997) pairs it with location, its everyday near-twin. As a gerund it can also be counted, and that is where the noun for choosing a location begins.

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