Text amendment

A text amendment changes the words of the Zoning Resolution — definitions, bulk rules, use provisions, program mechanics — as distinct from a map amendment, which changes where districts are drawn. Because text applies wherever its terms reach, a single amendment can alter the rules for thousands of lots at once; the city's periodic citywide reforms are text amendments of exactly this sweep.

Text amendments follow a public review path related to but distinct from ULURP, ending in a City Council vote. For analysis they are why currency matters: a bulk table read from memory may be a table the Council has since rewritten. The current text governs — always a checkable fact, never an assumption.