How to Use rezone in a Sentence

rezone

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• Flagstaff City Council is scheduled to vote on whether to approve phase one of the project and whether to rezone the land on May 16.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2023
• But the city would first need to rezone the area to allow for taller buildings, which could meet resistance.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• The group also asked the city to rezone the land to never allow industrial use on the grounds after 2029.
  — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
• In 1947, the county gave approval to rezone the area for what would be the county’s tallest apartment building: nine stories.
  — Washington Post, 8 May 2021
• At the time, its developer went through a process with the city to get the lot rezoned – a process that resulted in an agreement about how the space would be used.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
• The Tucson City Council voted to annex 300 acres of land to be rezoned for industrial use south of the city.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
• Another part of the plan, which would require city approval, seeks to rezone four areas.
  — Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Despite a lawsuit filed by some members, the property was sold to a developer, the site rezoned and the church razed.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• About 18 acres, toward the northwest corner of the site near the main roads, would have been rezoned for community services.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2023
• That night, the council nonetheless voted to rezone the land for the Karbank proposal.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• If there isn’t, the city may have to rezone or increase neighborhood densities to meet the requirement.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• Ron Pianka, a Webster resident, told council that his daughter lived next to the ½ lot that council was about to rezone.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
• The new code changed the zoning of the site, meaning Morgan Stonehill needed to rezone again before building the property.
  — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Cobb planning board wanted to rezone the public property for commercial use, so the county could sell it.
  — Brian Eason, ajc, 24 Apr. 2022
• The property is now home to several data centers — some near homes and a school — with the Devlin site being the last parcel to be rezoned to allow for more.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• In 2018, the vacant blocks were rezoned to allow construction of retail, offices and restaurants.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Many landowners have been trying to get their land rezoned for development, a glacially slow process.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The plan also involves rezoning about 600 acres adjacent to the roadway.
  — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
• Nine days later, the plan suffered a fatal blow when the Council, in a meeting that took three minutes and 14 seconds, began rezoning the site, led by the chairman who had praised it.
  — Jason Deparle Bobby Altman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• That price would not have made sense without the council’s decision to rezone the property, real estate experts told The Times.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• Additionally, a request to rezone about 9 acres at the southwest slope of Markham Hill was held on its first reading and will be considered again March 1.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2022
• The property has been rezoned to District 5, which allows for apartment buildings.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
• Broadly rezoning those areas and allowing for new housing types, though, is a solution that has yet to pick up much steam.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Much of the farmland and residential areas have been rezoned and replaced by sprawling warehouses, where diesel trucks queue and idle.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• New York City in 1997 rezoned the Financial District to make room for more residential structures.
  — oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
• For those projects to move forward, the land on which developers want to place solar panels would need to be rezoned industrial.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
• The issue has been a huge flashpoint in Brookline, for example, where town planners had proposed to rezone the main business district along Harvard Street.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• This could happen if the area around the property develops and the city decides to rezone it for residential use, for example.
  — Cris Burnam, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• In the 1950s, the neighborhood was rezoned and transformed from a mostly residential area to mixed-use, where metal shops, junkyards and factories were built around homes.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• Charter school and Washington Township school district lawyers gave arguments for why the property should or shouldn’t be rezoned for a school.
  — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024