Zoning Districts within the City of Newport News, VA. If you have any questions concerning the Zoning Map or the Zoning Code, please visit the Planning website. The Zoning Map is maintained electronically by the City's Planning and Development Department. Please be aware that the City Council may have adopted changes to the Zoning Map that have not yet been published.

This data layer contains polygon geometry with attributes displaying high school zone boundaries in the City of Newport News, VA.For more information please visit the Schools website.

The city of Newport News has two Virginia Enterprise Zones, with these Enterprise Zones designated in four separate parts of the city. Virginia Enterprise Zones provide state and local grants and local tax abatements for qualifying for-profit companies that create new full-time jobs and new taxable investment.For more information, visit the Newport News Economic Development Authority.

The data set provides information for regulators, planners, and others interested in Future Land Use changes, and allows them to quantify those changes over time using GIS. This data set is intended to serve as a resource data set. When a parcel has multiple land uses, the dominant land use is shown. Assessing records and orthophotography were the main sources used to attribute each tax parcel with land use information. The City of Newport News may change the parcel based polygon coding based on more in depth analysis and field inspection.

This polygon feature class details the elementary school crosstown busing zones for Newport News Public Schools. All elementary school zones can be found here. This data is updated yearly as needed.

This polygon layer represents the buffer zone established by city/county ordinance for the waterways in Newport News and other nearby localities. The City of Newport News complies with the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act in order to protect the quality of water in the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most important and productive estuarine systems in the world, providing economic and social benefits to the citizens of Newport News and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Portions of Newport News are designated as Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas.Buffer zone means an area of natural or established vegetation managed to protect other components of a resource protection area and state waters from significant degradation due to land disturbances. This buffer area consists of three (3) trophic layers: trees, shrubs and ground cover.According to Newport News City Code: "a buffer area not less than one hundred (100) feet in width, located adjacent to and landward of the components listed in subsections a. through c. above, and along both sides of any water body with perennial flow. The full buffer area shall be designated as the landward component of the resource protection area notwithstanding the presence of permitted uses, encroachments and permitted vegetation clearing in compliance with section 37.1-51".

This polygon layer represents the protection districts established by city ordinance for the area surrounding the Lee Hall Reservoir. The City of Newport News complies with the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act in order to protect the quality of water in the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most important and productive estuarine systems in the world, providing economic and social benefits to the citizens of Newport News and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Portions of Newport News are designated as Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas.Resource protection areas include tidal wetlands, nontidal wetlands (which are connected by surface flow and contiguous to tidal wetlands or water bodies with perennial flow), tidal shores, and a buffer zone.According to Newport News City Code: "The components of a resource management area shall consist of all lands within one hundred (100) feet landward of the landward boundary of the resource protection area buffer and in addition includes all land containing slopes greater than fifteen (15) percent, all areas within the one hundred (100) year floodplain and highly erodible soils. Council may designate other lands it deems important to maintenance of water quality as resource management area."

This map provides information on speed limits that are posted on state-maintained roadways in Virginia. Cities and towns set their own speed limits and these are not available to show on the map. Zoom in on the map to display the speed limits. Speed limits exist for all roads however; where this information is not available for mapping, they are not displayed. Most roads where speed limits are not shown are either rural, secondary roads (routes numbered 600 or greater) where a statutory 55 mph speed limit typically applies, or subdivision streets where a statutory 25 mph speed limit usually applies. These statutory speed limits are often are not posted on these roads. Click on any roadway to display the speed limit information.

This map service displays noise level contours around the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport. Noise contours are a series of lines superimposed on a map of the airport’s area. These lines represent various DNL (Day-Night Sound Level) levels at 65, 70, and 75 decibels (dBA). DNL noise contours are used for several purposes.Noise contours highlight existing or potential areas of significant aircraft noise exposure (as defined by the FAA).Noise contours are used to assess the relative aircraft noise exposure levels of different runway and/or flight corridor alternatives.Noise contours provide guidance to political jurisdictions in the development of land use control measures. These measures include zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, and airport overlay zones.