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
“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
My weekly processing of the past eventually migrated to another building when my therapist moved her practice to a house rezoned for offices in a residential neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
The incentive to redevelop Kearny’s property was enhanced by its location in an industrial district, which spared the company from having to go through time-consuming and challenging process of getting it rezoned for industrial use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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 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
“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
This spring, county commissioners voted to establish a 180-day moratorium to freeze rezoning for residential development.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 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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