Planning commission backs rezoning for 350 Yorktown Road development, recommends April council review

The Newport News Planning Commission voted 7-0 Thursday to recommend that City Council approve a rezoning application (CZ20250001) that would permit a mixed‑use residential development on roughly 282 acres at 350 Yorktown Road.

The proposal, presented by city planning staff and the developer, would change the zoning for the property owned by the Economic Development Authority of the City of Newport News and proposed for development by D.R. Horton Southern Virginia. The applicant has proffered a master plan called the Parkside and Enview Conceptual Master Plan, design guidelines, transportation improvements and environmental protections; the proffers would cap the number of residential units at 620 and preserve roughly half the site as open space.

The rezoning, as presented by planning staff, would change portions currently zoned R‑9 Mixed Use with a Neo‑Traditional Overlay and P‑1 Park to R‑9 Mixed Use with proffers and the neo‑traditional overlay. Planning staff told commissioners that federal and state environmental and historic reviews will be required: a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Section 404 permit and consultation under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act were…