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Commission clears zoning change to allow ice vending machines on smaller commercial lots

Newport News Planning Commission · November 5, 2025
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Summary

The Planning Commission voted 6–0 to recommend a text amendment reducing the minimum lot size for self‑service ice vending units from 2 acres to 0.75 acres and clarifying that the machines must be accessory to a principal use; an ice‑machine operator told the commission the change would let him expand.

The Newport News Planning Commission on Nov. 5 recommended approval of a zoning text amendment to revise rules for self‑service ice vending units. The change reduces the minimum lot size required from 2 acres to three‑quarters of an acre and clarifies that ice vending units may not be the principal use on a lot but must…

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