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Blacksburg, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 3211, 3212

Planned DevelopmentAll Blacksburg districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 75 ftMIN LOT AREA2 acMIN OPEN SPACE20%
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.
87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
75 ft

Height & bulk

Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
20%

Uses

Permitted by right6

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum residential area15 pct

    Residential Use Types shall be limited to no more than fifteen (15) percent of the district area.

From the ordinance

Minimum district size: Ten (10) acres. Minimum frontage: Seventy-five (75) feet. Minimum lot size: Two (2) acres. Minimum open space: Twenty (20) percent.
Sec. 3211, 3212