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Planning commission approves 10-home Clydes View rezoning with occupancy and solar-ready proffers
Summary
The Blacksburg Planning Commission approved Rezoning 25-2 (Clydes View) on June 3, 2025, allowing 10 detached single-family homes on 0.655 acres with proffers that limit occupancy, commit to solar-ready construction, and reduce required open space from 20% to 13%. Neighbors raised student-housing and parking concerns during public comment.
The Blacksburg Planning Commission on June 3, 2025, approved Rezoning 25-2 (Clydes View), allowing a 0.655-acre site at 103 Jefferson Street to be rezoned from R-5 Transitional Residential to PR Planned Residential for 10 detached single-family homes with 20 bedrooms total.
Staff said the applicant, Balzer and Associates (on behalf of owner Shaw Development LLC), revised the application after a work session to add two proffers reinforcing occupancy standards, commit to solar-ready construction, replace an open-space patio with a flexible community space managed by the homeowners association, update waterline and stormwater plans, request removal of sidewalk requirements alongside the parking lot, and add utility easements behind all units.
The PR district review noted the site’s future land-use designation is medium-density residential, which the staff…
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