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They can't point to specific areas where they want us to downzone.

The Downzone", where non-implated poor people live, has a different design from the three syndicates."

Brad Lander, who works with community groups on planning issues, sees a contradiction in the city policy to downzone these neighborhoods.

This news alarmed residents, who organized and successfully battled in the courts to downzone the neighborhood.

In the face of such pressure to downzone around the city, Mrs. Deutsch has remained firm.

"We have already fought several attempts to downzone," Mr. Grayson said.

Its checkmate and endgame for Gabriola Is. if we don't downzone in the next few months.

The proposal would "downzone" eastern TriBeCa, a commercial/residential district.

Downzone Mall: Developers not 'taken' with new plan", The Hook. "

The Commons has asked New York City to downzone Grymes Hill.

He has been calling on the Department of City Planning to downzone Maspeth and Middle Village.

Residential Areas Downzoning Neighborhoods Finally, there are the plans to downzone many leafy low-rise neighborhoods.

DOWNZONE - Reduce of eliminate development in protected areas such as watersheds.

In New York, Kilo and Lily land in the Downzone where the unchipped, lower-class population lives.

Owners of large properties in Greenwich can sell off individual building lots for $500,000 to more than $1 million each, "so the pressure to downzone is just not there," Mr. Sandy said.

The project needs a variance because two years ago the Board of Estimate voted to downzone midblock sites on most of the Upper East Side, while still allowing towers on the avenues.

Down zoning A municipality proposes to "downzone" land optioned by a U.S. box store in order to prohibit "Big Box Stores" except on land owned by the municipality.

During her term, efforts were started to downzone the Occoquan Watershed in an attempt to minimize pollution of the main source for the county's drinking water, an effort that emerged successful in 1981 after many legal challenges.

In the Bronx, Community Board 8 can't persuade the City Planning Department to let it downzone parts of Riverdale unless it allows higher-density building on Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge.

Peter J. Furey, administrator of the New Jersey Farm Bureau, a trade organization, said the commission had set in motion "a planning process that invites the municipalities to downzone farmland," making it less valuable to farm families.

"After all, if neighborhoods everywhere downzone, there surely will be less housing built, and therefore the housing stock will be even less affordable," Hope Cohen of the Community Board 7 task force said in a memo to other members.

In 1936, Mr. Converse sold the property for $800,000 to the founder of Schenley Distillers, Lewis Rosenstiel, who shocked Greenwich in the early 70's by attempting to downzone the property from four acres to quarter-acre lots.

The group, in breathtaking time last month, got Community Board 6 and Ms. Shulman to support a City Council measure, introduced by Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, to downzone the nearly four-block area so that only the present houses are permitted.

And builders who are in the midst of a boom in residential construction outside Manhattan complain that the administration has been too quick to downzone large sections of the city, reducing the size of buildings that can be built in many low-rise neighborhoods.

Both sides are girding for battle today at a public hearing at the Department of City Planning over a plan sponsored by Community Board 1 to "downzone" the South Street Seaport Historic District, a move that would prohibit tall buildings.