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Blacksburg, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 4309

All Blacksburg districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSide 20 ftMIN LOT AREA20,000 sq ft
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.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

Parking

  • Parking behind front line

    Parking shall be located behind the front line of the principal building. Town Council may grant a special exception to this requirement as authorized by Section 1112.

Setback

From the ordinance

Minimum lot size: Twenty thousand (20,000) square feet
Sec. 4309