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Blacksburg, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 4502

All Blacksburg districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA1 acMAX LOT COVERAGE40%
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Height & bulk

Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.
40%

Extracted standards

2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

Parking

  • Parking location

    Off-street parking shall be provided in the rear yard of the lot.

From the ordinance

Minimum lot size: One (1) acre. Maximum lot surface coverage: Forty (40) percent. Off-street parking shall be provided in the rear yard of the lot. A minimum of one (1) parking space per five hundred (500) square feet of interior display area, and one (1) space per two thousand (2,000) square feet of outside display area shall be provided.
Sec. 4502

Parking requirements

{
  "outside_display_area": "1 per 2000 sqft",
  "interior_display_area": "1 per 500 sqft"
}