Blacksburg
Zoning districts
6 districts, grouped by category.
Residential
6R-4 Low Density Residential
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 30 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 8
R-5 Transitional Residential
- Min lot
- 8,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 20 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 8
RM-27 Low Density Multiunit
- Min lot
- 8,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 27 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 21
RM-48 Medium Density Multiunit
- Min lot
- 8,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 48 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 20
General provisions
465 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
In Floodway, Special Flood Hazard Area, and Approximated Floodplain, permitted uses: Agriculture, Accessory residential uses, Community Recreation, Public Recreation, Open Space, Golf Course. No manufactured homes. No recreational vehicles. No encroachments unless no increase in 100-year flood elevation.
The following areas of the Town of Blacksburg are hereby established as the Special Housing Overlay District: Turner Street between South Main Street and Gilbert Street;
Special Housing permitted by conditional use permit. Overlay applies to Turner Street between South Main Street and Gilbert Street. Permit term 5 years.
The following areas of the Town of Blacksburg are hereby established as the Special Housing Overlay District: Turner Street between South Main Street and Gilbert Street.
In addition to those uses permitted by right or by conditional use permit in the underlying zoning district, the following use is permitted by conditional use permit in the Special Housing Overlay District: Residential - Special Housing
Special Housing permitted by conditional use permit. CUP term 5 years.
The Open Space Design Overlay District is overlaid upon the following residential zoning districts within the Town of Blacksburg: OTR - Old Town Residential
Minimum lot size: 70% of underlying district. Open space: minimum 30% of total district area. Active recreation 25-50% of open space. Type B buffer where abuts certain districts.
Overlay on OTR. Min lot size 70% of underlying. Open space 30% of total district area.
The Open Space Design Overlay District is overlaid upon the following residential zoning districts within the Town of Blacksburg: OTR
No building or structure, including signs, shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, restored, relocated, or demolished within any such district unless reviewed and where required approved by the zoning administrator or Board or, on appeal, by the Town Council, unless the development is declared exempt from the design criteria in the ordinance designating the district.
No building or structure, including signs, shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, restored, relocated, or demolished within any such district unless reviewed and where required approved by the zoning administrator or Board.
No building or structure, including signs, shall be erected, reconstructed, altered, or restored within this District until reviewed for conformance with these design criteria by the zoning administrator or the Board as appropriate.
Within three (3) months prior to the submission of a redevelopment plan, the property owner or the owner's agent shall schedule a pre-application meeting with the director of Planning and Building.
If any contributing structure in the District is damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster, act of God or accidental fire, the property owner may repair or rebuild the contributing structure to restore it to its structural configuration immediately preceding the damage or destruction without the requirement of a redevelopment plan...
All parking related uses, including but not limited to driveways, parking areas, structured parking, parking facilities, on- and off-site parking, within the District shall be required to adhere to the following standards...
All parking related uses, including but not limited to driveways, parking areas, structured parking, parking facilities, on- and off-site parking, within the District shall be required to adhere to the following standards and constructed only upon the issuance of a zoning permit.
Sec. 3301 Permitted uses... Sec. 3302 (b) Minimum street frontage: Thirty (30) feet... (g) Maximum Structure Height: Sixty (60) feet... Sec. 3303 (a) A minimum of ten (10) percent of the MXD Development gross land area shall be reserved as open space.
Minimum lot size: None. Minimum street frontage: 30 ft. No setbacks for internal elevations. Setbacks for abutting public roads: local none, collector none, arterial none. Maximum residential density: 48 bedrooms per acre. Maximum MXD Development Coverage: 85%. Maximum structure height: 60 ft; reduced near certain districts.
Permitted uses in Sec. 3301(a). Site development: min frontage 30 ft, max height 60 ft, max MXD coverage 85%.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.