Allows commercial development in, perhaps

• Changes from commercial to residential, say
• Changes a neighborhood's character
• Enacts a new building ordinance
• Changes boundaries
• Splits into new districts
• Gerrymanders, perhaps
• Changes from commercial to residential, maybe
• Alters to allow development, maybe

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vb. (en-third-person singular of: rezone )