Planning
Garden City Neighborhood Plan
The Garden City neighborhood was annexed into the City in 1949. Its boundaries
are Mill Mountain and Riverland Road to the north, Yellow Mountain
Road and the Blue Ridge Parkway to the west, and Roanoke County to the
south and east. It is a neighborhood geographically isolated from the rest of
Roanoke as it lies in a valley between several mountains, and is shielded from
the City behind Mill Mountain.
The layout of the streets and the development pattern of the housing is
overwhelmingly suburban. Garden City is primarily a residential community
with commercial and institutional uses that serve the surrounding neighborhoods.
Rockydale Quarries is located at the southern edge of the neighborhood
at the end of Welcome Valley Road. The former American Viscose Plant
in the Roanoke Industrial Center lies across the Roanoke River. The plant
spurred the neighborhood’s growth and was the area’s major employer until it
closed in 1958. The neighborhood’s setting provides residents with a peaceful
quality of life largely undisturbed by the growth outside its borders.
The Garden City Neighborhood Plan was adopted by City Council on November 21, 2005.
Click here to download the plan. (NOTE: This file is 20 MB and will download very slowly on some connections. If you have a dial-up modem, it is recommended that you download individual chapters below.)
Table of Contents and Introduction
History
Community Design
Residential Development
Economic Development
Infrastructure
Public Services
Quality of Life
Recommendations
Implementation
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