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The following charts and tables present data on approved rezonings by zoning category in Greensboro from
2000 to 2016. In all cases, the category “All Other” includes the following zones: Agricultural, Auto-Oriented,
Business Park, Central Business, Neighborhood Support, Office, Parkland and Natural Resource Area,
Traditional Neighborhood, and University Mixed Use. Since 2000, the annual level of rezoning activity has
fluctuated significantly, both in the acres rezoned and number of rezonings. Based on acreage, the mix of
zoning categories to which properties have been rezoned has also varied significantly from year to year.
However, with respect to the number of rezoning cases, the resulting mix of zoning categories has been
somewhat more stable during the past 16 years. A key observation that emerges from this data is that there
appears to be a fundamental difference in the level of rezoning activity in Greensboro during the years
following the “housing bubble” in 2008, compared with those preceding it. Between 2000 and 2007, the
average number of acres rezoned per year was 1,482; the average dropped to just 415 acres per year between
2009 and 2016 (a 72% decrease). The number of rezoning cases exhibited a similar, though less pronounced
shift, dropping from an average of 94 cases per year between 2000 and 2007, to 46 cases per year between
2009 and 2016 (a 50% decrease).
Greensboro Approved Zoning Activity, Acres by Category, 2000 to 2016

Source: City of Greensboro, Planning

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