The speaker of the City Council, in his attempt to rezone the West Side site where Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a stadium for the Jets, plans to bypass the council’s zoning subcommittee.

During his State of the City speech Thursday, Mr. Miller said the council would file an application to rezone the 13-acre site so that developers interested in bidding on the right to develop the property have the same zoning assurances the Jets have been given.

Mr. Miller, an Upper East Side Democrat who is seeking his party’s nomination to challenge Mr. Bloomberg in November’s mayoral election, expects to go straight to the council’s Land Use Committee, skipping over a potential political obstacle in a key subcommittee.

“There’s no question that it would be a clear attempt to bypass procedure,” the chairman of the subcommittee on zoning and franchise, Tony Avella, said when told of the speaker’s intention by The New York Sun.

“What would be the point of violating normal procedure: political expediency? I would have a serious problem with that. I would be very upset, and I would speak out very loudly if normal procedure is bypassed,” the council member, a Democrat who represents Bayside, Little Neck, and other parts of Queens, said yesterday.

Mr. Avella, who is in favor of the stadium and against the speaker’s proposal, said he would contact Mr. Miller’s office today to discuss the matter.

A spokesman for Mr. Miller, Stephen Sigmund, denied that there was a political motive, citing the short timeline the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state entity that wants to sell the air rights to the rail yards, has set for developers to submit bids. The deadline for bids is March 21.

Mr. Sigmund also said the application involves more than just zoning issues.

“It’s being done in the interest of time, given that the MTA bids are due in less than a month, and it’s being done because it involves more issues than just zoning,” the speaker’s spokesman said yesterday.

Mr. Avella said he could remember only one instance during his tenure as chairman of the zoning subcommittee when a relevant issue went straight to the full 21-member committee. As he tells it, that case involved changes to laws regarding billboards, and the chairwoman of the committee, his fellow Queens Democrat Melinda Katz, asked him if he objected.

Just a day before Mr. Miller announced that the council would submit an application to initiate the zoning changes, Mr. Avella and 10 other prostadium council members wrote to the chairman of the MTA, Peter Kalikow, encouraging him to reject requests for changes to the site.

If there are issues other than zoning in Mr. Miller’s proposed rezoning applications, they, too, should go through the appropriate subcommittees, Mr. Avella said.

The speaker’s office said the proposal, which will need approval in a two thirds vote of the Land Use Committee, would not be considered until next week because it still needs to be drafted and because adequate public notice must be given.