Evans Farm is a 144-home planned development finished in 2007 on 24 acres of the former Evans Farm Inn, and every home in it is bound by a recorded association.
Evans Farm is one of the few McLean addresses where the whole neighborhood has a completion date. Elm Street Development and Craftmark built it out across 24 acres of the former Evans Farm Inn property, finishing in 2007. Getting there required a rezoning from R-3 to PDH-5, and the approved plan is more mixed than most of McLean: 46 single-family detached homes, 64 townhouses and 34 multifamily units — 144 in all, 18 of them affordable. In a community whose defining housing story is the one-lot-at-a-time replacement of 1950s ramblers, Evans Farm is the opposite case, drawn and delivered as a single plan.
The site was the Evans Farm Inn, a McLean landmark before the redevelopment. Two pieces of it survived the project: the mill house was restored, and the farm pond was kept. That is worth more than nostalgia to a buyer, because retained features like a pond and the landscaped common ground around it are maintenance obligations that live in the association's budget rather than on any one lot. When you read the financials, look for what is reserved against them.
The blocks around Evans Farm are conventional districts where a builder can buy an original house, demolish it and put up a much larger one on the same lot. Evans Farm is not that. A planned development housing district is built to an approved development plan, so the density, the mix and the layout were settled at rezoning. Exterior changes run through the association's review, and a change to the plan itself is a county process rather than a permit counter transaction. If you are buying here specifically to avoid living next to a construction site, that is the mechanism to understand — and it is also the mechanism that limits what you can do to your own house.
Detached, attached and multifamily homes share the neighborhood, which means comparable sales have to stay inside their own type; a townhouse trade tells you very little about a detached price and vice versa. The construction date changes the inspection conversation too. The pre-1978 lead paint disclosure that attaches to most of McLean's original stock does not apply to homes completed in the 2000s. What does apply, as of August 2026, is that the roofs, windows, HVAC and water heaters are roughly twenty years into their service lives, and that common-element condition is a shared cost rather than a private one.
Most of McLean's named neighborhoods are governed loosely or not at all — voluntary civic associations, sometimes with covenants nobody enforces. Evans Farm carries recorded association documents that bind the lot. Read the disclosure packet properly: the current assessment and what it covers, the reserve study, the architectural rules, and the rules governing rentals and parking. If a home you are considering is one of the 18 affordable units in the approved plan, ask the county which program conditions, if any, run with it, because those are separate from the association's rules.
As of August 2026, Evans Farm is served by Franklin Sherman Elementary, Longfellow Middle and McLean High School. Franklin Sherman has its own place in the record: it opened on October 19, 1914 as Fairfax County's first consolidated public school, merging four field schools, and in 1954 its cafeteria was the site of the first dose administered in the Salk polio vaccine field trial. Assignments change, so confirm a specific address with the FCPS boundary locator.
Evans Farm sits within McLean — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
