How to Use rezone in a Sentence

rezone

verb
  • The Vawters planned to seek rezoning.
    — Eric Adler may 12, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2026
  • The board will be voting on rezoning, not any building projects.
    — Julia Avant, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • City leaders have agreed on rezoning.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • That area was rezoned for a data center in 2023.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But that never happened, and a couple of a years later the land was rezoned for retail.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
  • But a request to rezone the land for redevelopment puts all that at risk.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2025
  • The city later rezoned the area as industrial, even though there were already homes in the area.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The 200 acres will need to be annexed into city limits and rezoned.
    — Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Another part of the plan, which would require city approval, seeks to rezone four areas.
    — Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • School districts often go through rezoning to address growth.
    — Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But first, a back portion of the site had to be rezoned to allow for residential uses.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2026
  • The council will consider rezoning the land so it can be used as a public park in June.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 12 May 2025
  • The City of Page says the plot of land will need to be rezoned prior to development.
    — Outside, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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 proposal is the first step in rezoning the land from agricultural use.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Martinez said that there would not be any new council initiated rezoning in the area in the near future.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The commission rejected the plan to rezone the farmland.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • The council will later need to rezone the land, which was previously approved for office space.
    — Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2025
  • However, the current zoning rules don’t allow for those uses, so the church will need to apply to have the land rezoned.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 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
  • Nothing’s been submitted in terms of rezoning.
    — Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The plan still faces hurdles, including rezoning.
    — Adam Duxter, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • With the financing in hand and rezoning secured, Burns said building will begin this year.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This portion of the land was rezoned last year for higher-density residential use.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • What’s next for Charlotte airport rezoning?
    — Charlotte Observer, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Without the open space easement, the land could be rezoned for any non-open space use, neighbor Rick Leyva argued.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2025
  • To meet the state mandates for housing, business areas will need to be rezoned for mixed-use or in some cases a workforce housing overlay.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024

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