1421 Pebble Beach Rd, Blacksburg, VA 24060

Residential District

The R-1 Residential District is intended to accommodate moderate density, suburban residential uses to be served by public water and sewer facilities and low density suburban residential uses in the village expansion and residential transition areas to be served by public water and/or sewer facilities. It includes areas currently zoned R-1 and planned for residential transition, villages, village expansion and urban expansion as shown in the comprehensive plan. The regulations for this district are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district, to promote and encourage, insofar as compatible with the intensity of land use, a suitable environment for family life and to permit certain limited commercial and institutional uses of a scale and character that will not create concentrations of traffic, crowds of customers, general outdoor advertising or other conflicts with the neighboring residential uses.; To these ends, retail activity is sharply limited, and this district is protected against encroachment of general commercial or industrial uses. Residential uses are limited to single family structures. Although this district is basically residential in character, certain compatible public and semipublic uses are permitted in the district.