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upzone en · VERB

Etymology

From up- + zone.

Meanings

1. (US, transitive) To rezone for more intensive use.
   • 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. 2025 February 23, Marc Novicoff, “The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2025:
   • For example, a neighborhood of single-family homes may be upzoned to multifamily residential or a mixed-use (commercial plus residential) zone. 2001, Randal O'Toole, The vanishing automobile and other urban myths:

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Antonyms

downzone