Chase Gardens Nodal Development Plan Page 11 <br />Final Report - June 29, 2001 <br />Existing Apartments Number of Units Approximate Density <br />(Gross du/acre) <br />University Commons 252 15.3 <br />McKenna Estates 144 29.0 <br />Duck’s Village 230 19.2 <br />Park Grove Apartments 280 23.4 <br />Chase Gardens 200 15.7 <br />Chase Village 336 18.6 <br />Total Existing Apartments 1442 18.93 <br />Apartment complexes in the study area tend to be <br />garden apartments. Buildings have multiple building <br />orientations; front entrances to apartment units tend <br />to face landscaped center courts within the <br />complexes, or toward parking aisles. Consequently, <br />few apartment buildings face public streets. In <br />addition, most of the parking courts are dead end <br />driveways, limiting the efficiency of both pedestrian <br />and vehicle travel and requiring all through <br />movements of cars to use Kinsrow and Commons <br />Drive. <br /> Duck’s Village <br />The study area also contains the five-home Chase <br />Gardens Residential Ensemble - listed on the <br />National Registry of Historic Places. The homes are <br />located on the west side of Garden Way. <br />Historic Home and Gardens <br />An electric substation and outdoor training facility owned by the EWEB abuts the I-105 right-of- <br />way; a 60 foot-wide EWEB utility corridor containing a 45-inch water pipe runs in a southwesterly <br />direction through this study area, and 115-kiloVolt electrical lines which traverse the northeastern <br />portion of the land. A chiropractor’s office is located at the southern end of Garden Way, and a <br />Masonic Lodge is located in the northwest corner of the study area. Vacant land amounts to a <br />quarter of the land within the study area (25.7% or 43.83 acres). Most of the vacant land lies north <br />of Centennial Boulevard, east of the existing apartments, south of Commons Drive, and west of the <br />historic ensemble. The remainder is located between Garden Way and I-5.