Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To change the governmental classification and permitted uses of (an area or piece of real estate).
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- verb to change the
zoning assigned to a piece of property by the planning and zoning commission of a government that determines proper and legal use for land.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's an old warehouse district and they want to rail a trolley through the area and then rezone everything for condos, shops and Starbucks with high density.
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Throughout the small towns and cities of the South, the local ruling powers are men who make 1000 percent profits on buying up farmland and bribing their buddies on the Board of County SUpervisors to rezone the farmland to quarter acre residential zoning.
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WPPI Springfield HS, Merrillville, Ind. Application to rezone 1.63 acres from C-6 (commercial) to PDC (planned development commercial) to permit development of a hotel at 7910 Old Keene Mill Rd.
Fairfax County development projects Post 2010
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The community board that includes Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, has teamed up with the Department of City Planning on a plan to rezone 18 blocks of the district.
Hell's Kitchen Seeks Heaven-Sent Rezoning Shelly Banjo 2011
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Application to rezone 14.55 acres from C-3 (commercial) to PDC (planned development commercial) to permit construction of a healthplex/medical office mixed-use development consisting of two buildings and a central parking structure, at Lorton Road and Sanger Street, west of Interstate 95.
Fairfax County development projects Post 2010
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Final approval to rezone 32.7 acres from single-family homes to a mix of 114 units of single-family and townhouses on Bowie Mill Road, opposite Brightwood Road, Olney.
Montgomery County development project Post 2010
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Final approval to rezone 32.7 acres from single-family homes to a mix of 114 units of single-family and townhouses on Bowie Mill Road, opposite Brightwood Road, Olney.
Montgomery County development project Post 2010
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Application to rezone 14.55 acres from C-3 (commercial) to PDC (planned development commercial) to permit construction of a healthplex/medical office mixed-use development consisting of two buildings and a central parking structure, at Lorton Road and Sanger Street, west of Interstate 95.
Fairfax County development projects Post 2010
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WPPI Springfield HS, Merrillville, Ind. Application to rezone 1.63 acres from C-6 (commercial) to PDC (planned development commercial) to permit development of a hotel at 7910 Old Keene Mill Rd.
Fairfax County development projects Post 2010
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BTW, I'd favor an immediate rezone of all arterials to at least 45 'height limits.
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