The Mathews County Planning Commission on Tuesday night voted to support a request by Jermaine Ware of Cobbs Creek that he be allowed to repair up to 40 vehicles at a time at his owner/operator auto repair business off Buckley Hall Road near the intersection with Roane Point Drive.

The business operates under a conditional use permit that allows Ware to have an auto repair business at his residence in the rural zoning district.

That decision followed an earlier decision by the commission to support its own request for a change to the zoning ordinance to remove the blanket requirement that owner/operator auto repair businesses in the county be limited to just six vehicles onsite at a time. The change, if approved next week by supervisors, would not prevent the county from placing a limit on the number of vehicles that a particular owner/operator auto repair business may have onsite, but the decision would be made on a case-by-case basis.

The board of supervisors will meet at 1 p.m. T...