upzone

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.
   • 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
   • 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