In anticipation of a drainage project in the 300 block of Glyndon Street, N.E., the Vienna Town Council unanimously agreed Sept. 23 to fix a long-standing right-of-way quirk along the street’s Glyndon Park frontage between Ayr Hill Avenue and Jean Place, N.E.
The right-of-way issue dates back to the original 1891 plan for the Ayr Hill subdivision, said Deputy Planning and Zoning Director Kelly O’Brien.
A map from that era shows two diagonal streets converging on a circular park, perhaps echoing Pierre L’Enfant’s design for the District of Columbia. That plan did not get built, but a vestige of the curved design remains at the current park, which has covered 11 acres since 1957.
Glyndon Street, N.E., now crosses through property designated as parkland and part of Glyndon Park is within the road’s right-of-way.
Council members concurred with town staff’s proposal to clarify where boundaries of the park and Glyndon Street. The boundary adjustment and relocation of Glyndon Park’s southern lot line will reduce the park’s size by 0.31 acres.
