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Council adopts Downtown Northwest zoning overlay to encourage focused, high‑density redevelopment

Blacksburg Town Council · December 10, 2025
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Summary

The Town Council approved Ordinance 2001, creating a Downtown Northwest floating overlay district with form‑based standards, a 100‑foot maximum height in most locations, and minimum acreage and frontage requirements intended to guide concentrated mixed‑use redevelopment near North Main, Prices Fork and Turner Street.

The council approved Ordinance 2001, establishing a Downtown Northwest overlay intended as an incentive‑based, form‑based district to guide dense, mixed‑use redevelopment in the triangle bounded by North Main Street, Prices Fork Road and Turner Street.

Staff explained the overlay would be a floating district applied only with a rezoning application; eligibility…

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