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
He said he got a notice earlier this year that a company was looking to rezone an empty field across the street from his house.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Any attempt to rezone the land for one or a few wealthy buyers wanting big lots “would be a long and arduous process,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
The legislation would rezone land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions, such as churches, mosques, and synagogues, to allow for affordable housing.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 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
The proposal would probably require public hearings, because the property would need to be rezoned.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
Phoenix also has now opened a a city parking lot that was recently rezoned to allow homeless people to pitch tents under safer, controlled circumstances.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
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 rezoning could open the way for Equinix to develop the land near the international airport but managing director Sandile Dube told AFP the company had no immediate plans to do so.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
A Kentucky statute required they sue those who had given authority for the rezoning: their own neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“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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