upzone

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ zone.

Verb

upzone (third-person singular simple present upzones, present participle upzoning, simple past and past participle upzoned)

  1. (US, transitive) To rezone for more intensive use.
    • 2001, Randal O'Toole, The vanishing automobile and other urban myths:
      For example, a neighborhood of single-family homes may be upzoned to multifamily residential or a mixed-use (commercial plus residential) zone.
    • 2025 February 23, Marc Novicoff, “The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      This won't be easy. The pronatalists combine conservative social nudges (get married, start a family) with liberal policy objectives (give parents more money, upzone the suburbs), which makes for tricky politics.

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