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... Let's say you are living in a pleasant, low density residential neighborhood, but a notice arrives one ... day from your city: A developer has applied to rezone your neighborhood to high density residential. ... A "comp plan" might state, for example, that a certain area should be preserved as low density residential ... For example, rezoning a neighborhood from low density residential to heavy industrial, when the neighborhood ... is surrounded by other residential uses, is likely to be found inconsistent with surrounding uses. ...