rezone
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of rezone
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Last year, Orr persuaded the City Council in Burleson to rezone the land, which had been restricted to agriculture, to permit retail and housing.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
If an owner wants to build something other than a park, they would need to rezone the land, a process that can be costly and time-consuming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
For lawyer and activist Arif Ali Cangi, the legislation approved in July, which allows companies to expropriate or rezone agricultural land for mining, will only aggravate the situation.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
“Something as simple as, they change or they rezone areas,” said Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, the director of the public history program at Howard University.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
Rockingham County commissioners last month voted unanimously to rezone nearly 200 acres of farmland for commercial use, despite opposition from many local residents.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
Homeowners in Escambia County, Fla. — which includes Pensacola — were the biggest group rezoned into high-risk flood zones, followed by homeowners in Pender County, N.C., according to an analysis by Cotality.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Should some be rezoned to allow for more dense housing options?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
She worries neighborhoods will start falling like dominoes as more rural residential land is rezoned for industrial use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The City Council is now faced with a vote that would effectively derail its plan to construct tiny houses on Seattle City Light property, once the land is rezoned.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
Rising at the edge of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal — a rezoned superfund site with developers racing to build — the colossal industrial relic known locally as the Batcave has found its own Bruce Wayne.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
The social media age — sometimes dubbed Web 2.0 to distinguish it from the less openly interactive earlier era of the internet — seemed to supercharge this impromptu rezoning of the information superhighway.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Bare and other opponents escalated their fight soon after, filing two suits to amend the ordinance and reverse the rezoning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“We have withdrawn the rezoning application for the proposed data center development in Franklin Township,” Google said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
“Let’s be clear: The state is not taking away anyone’s property, instituting some sort of mass rezoning or destroying the quality and character of destroyed neighborhoods. Period,” Newsom said in a statement to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
In 1966, the critical upper third of the Rock Creek basin was very nearly turned over to suburban developers as a playground for bulldozers by a lame-duck Montgomery County Council on a rezoning spree.
From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.
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