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Planning Commission recommends special-exception approval for home at 115420 Fifth Street
Summary
The Newport News Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of Special Exception SE2025-0004, allowing a two-story single-family home on a nonconforming lot at 115420 Fifth Street; the case will be heard by the Board of Zoning Appeals on April 15, 2025.
The Newport News Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of Special Exception SE2025-0004, allowing Ella Homes LLC to construct a two-story single-family detached dwelling on a nonconforming lot at 115420 Fifth Street. The commission’s recommendation will be forwarded to the Board of Zoning Appeals, which is scheduled to hear the case on April 15, 2025.
City planner Eli Zarka told commissioners the property is approximately 0.1 acre and has been zoned R-4 (single-family dwelling) since the citywide comprehensive rezoning effective Aug. 1, 1997. Zarka cited the zoning…
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