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
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
County leaders are reviewing a dozen requests that would rezone portions of rural residential land in Mead Valley to create more space for industrial use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The rezone covers 11 parcels, including the vacant Kress building formerly home to IGA and the art deco building that houses Ross Dress for Less at the corner of Third and Pike Street.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 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
We rezoned the entire city to make room for half a million homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
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
David Modica gained viral attention for questioning a Massachusetts town’s plan to comply with a state housing law by rezoning a golf course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The lawsuit also alleges that, by approving the project — and in the process, rezoning the land from residential to “tourist-commercial” and “open-space conservation,” the city violated state housing law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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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