Blacksburg council adopts consolidated erosion and stormwater ordinance, raises some post‑development thresholds

Blacksburg Town Council on Tuesday adopted Ordinance 2061 A, B and C, consolidating the town’s erosion and sediment control and stormwater management regulations into a single chapter and changing several thresholds and administrative references.

The consolidated ordinance, staff said, folds existing chapter 18 stormwater rules into a revised chapter 10 so the town’s code mirrors the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) new erosion and stormwater management program. Coffey Howard, who delivered the staff presentation, said, “we are recommending the adoption of the Virginia erosion and stormwater management program consolidated ordinance.”

The ordinance repeals existing town code sections 10.100 through 10.213 and 18.600 through 18.629 and then incorporates DEQ provisions into a new chapter 10 (sections 10.100–10.130). One substantive regulatory change adopted by council raises the post‑development water‑quality land‑disturbance threshold from 5,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet for water‑quantity controls on very small sites; the…