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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
downzone .
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The Thomas Mayne design was praised by the Times in June, but it's not universally loved: it's become the poster child for Bowery residents who want to see the whole neighborhood downzoned.
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The Thomas Mayne design was praised by the Times in June, but it's not universally loved: it's become the poster child for Bowery residents who want to see the whole neighborhood downzoned.
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First, the developer would be allowed to build 2 units on the newly downzoned property “as of right”, then as a “bonus” the developer could build an additional unit and more FAR by simply hiring a licensed Architect.
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Under the plan, most of the streets within the rezoned area — bounded by East 13th on the north, Avenue D on the east, East Houston, Grand, and Delancey on the south, and Bowery and Third on the west — would be downzoned, and zoning bonuses for dormitories and hotels would be abolished.
East Village Downzoning Moves Forward; Chinatown Activists Keep Up the Protesting 2008
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In 2007, the zoning on Myrtle Avenue was changed, making it possible to construct taller buildings on the thoroughfare itself, while the surrounding blocks were downzoned to preserve their residential character.
NYT > Home Page By FRED A. BERNSTEIN 2011
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Further out in the boroughs, car-dependent suburban neighborhoods are being downzoned and preserved rather than retrofitted for sustainable transit-oriented urbanism.
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When questioned, desperately try to convince the public that the upzoned areas that you are putting before them are really being downzoned.
Queens Crap 2010
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A study on the impact of Bloombergs rezonings released by the Furman Center last month finds that 59 percent of the lots that have been downzoned by the city are within a half a mile of a transit stop.
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The brouhaha over the construction began in Feb. 2006, when the Homecrest/Sheepshead Bay neighborhood was downzoned from allowing roughly a six-story building to requirements that mandate a maximum height of about 35 feet.
NY Post: News By Stephen Witt 2010
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A study on the impact of Bloombergs rezonings released by the Furman Center last month finds that 59 percent of the lots that have been downzoned by the city are within a half a mile of a transit stop.
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