Blacksburg's Section 4721 counts time by the use the container serves, not by the zoning district. For a container accessory to an agricultural, detached single-family, attached single-family or two-family use, the section permits one container per lot for a maximum 14-day period, no more than two times per year. The table sets out every use:
Town of Blacksburg Zoning Ordinance, Sec. 4721(b) to (e)
| Container accessory to | How many | How long |
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| Agricultural, detached single-family, attached single-family or two-family use | One per lot | A maximum 14-day period, no more than two times per year |
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| Multifamily use | One per fifty dwelling units per lot | Each a maximum 14-day period, no more than two times per year |
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| Industrial use | No more than three at once per lot | Each a maximum 14-day period |
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| Any other use | One per lot | A maximum 14-day period, no more than two times per year |
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Whether two periods may run back to back is the Zoning Administrator's answer, not this table's. Construction-project containers are outside the section.
Beside a detached single-family home, and unless the use is agricultural, the section adds a size cap: no more than sixteen feet long, eight feet wide and eight and one-half feet tall. We sell and rent 20-ft and 40-ft containers. Both are longer than sixteen feet, so on a lot where that cap applies, neither standard size is a container Section 4721 describes. What happens next on that lot is the Zoning Administrator's answer, not ours.
Our rentals are priced by the month, while every period in subsections (b) through (e) of Section 4721 runs 14 days at most. Settle the period with the town before you order, not after. For time periods exceeding the limits in subsections (b) through (e), Section 4721(f) sends containers to a screened storage yard behind the front building line, meeting all requirements for screened storage and other applicable Zoning Code requirements. Whether any given lot can hold such a yard is the town's call.
