Fig 4.22 - Density Gradient Ballston

for construction of 72 townhouses on the ‘Paden’tract at North George Mason drive and North Park Drive. Two additional townhouse projects have been approved since 1978.

The area has a total of 1,134 multi-family units. Most of these units are found South of Carlin Springs road. The Hyde Park apartment building on North Henderson road is the areas only high rise residential building. A small portion of the Buckingham garden apartment community lies adjacent to Hyde Park.

In the May of 1980 the County Board amended the GLUP for the area bounded by North Vermont Street, Wilson Boulevard, North Carlin Springs road and the commercial frontage along Glebe Road. The land use designation was changed from ’low’ density residential (1-10 units per acre) to ‘low medium’ density residential (16-30 units per acre). This change in response to increase pressure for redevelopment in the area, reinforces the tapering of uses and densities from the Glebe road commercial frontage into the established Ball’s crossing neighbourhood.

The draft portions of the Ball’s crossing neighbourhood conservation plan support preservation of established residential uses in West Ballston, while providing for ‘high medium’ residential re-development of some commercial properties on Glebe road.

Fig 4.22 - DENSITY GRADIENT BALLSTON