Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-11

mittee, should be residential instead
of commercial.
Change in Coming.
In the second map the commission
changed the coming of the property
east of the Union station tracks from
first commercial to second CONNER
clal and this was objected to by the
committee. as many of the residents
there want it placed in the residential
class. Commissioner kutZ said that in
the opinion of the commission it
should be either residential or sec
ond commercial. as the community
was not large enough to require such
large first commercial area, which
is limited to retail stores.
Objection also was made by Mr..
Tucker to changes in the second map,
placing East Capitol street from I'd
to 5th streets and from Sth street to
Lincoln Park in the first commercial
classification. He said that East
Capitol street was one Of the few show
and that it should be exclusively resi-
Dental
Difficult to Classify.
The area included in the fourteenth
district was the hardest the commits
sion had been GALES on to classify.
said Commissioner Brownlow, and the
members had gone over it block by
block in working out the best plan.
The difficulty was due to the way the
small retail stores and business places
are scattered in every block and not
grouped on certain streets, as happens
to be the case in other parts of the
city. To Mr.. fuckers objection that
too much space had been given to first
commercial zoninP Mr.. Brownlow re-
pied that some place had to be pro-
vlded for the stores that would eventu-
ally be crowded out Of blocks classed
as residential
Virginia Avenue Plans.
w. A. H. Church and r. Harrison
Johnson. chairman and secretary, re-
spectively, of the advisory committee
from district No. 4, embracing the
southwest quarter of the city, ap-
peared before the commission to ask
that the north and south side of Vir-
ginia avenue between South Capitol
and " streets southwest be placed
in the second commercial zone. They
called attention to the fact that .un-
der the present law owners of prop
erty in the square in question have
the right to maintain railroad sidings,
provided the streets are not OBJ
structed.
THE southwest section, except the
extreme southeast portion, being al
most entirely built up said their
report, "it is felt that the area and
light provision will not be to any
large extent applicable other than
to extension of existing buildings or
in the case of destruction of present
buildings. In the event of extension
of existing buildings it is believed
advisable to permit extensions. pro-
vided no injury is done to buildings
on adjacent lots. In case of destruc-
ton of buildings by fire it is believed
advisable to permit rebuilding on the
site of destroyed structure. provided
no injury follows to buildings on ad-
jacent lots"
G. w. Fosberg, proprietor of ma
chine shop and boiler foundry occu-
plying an entire block atfSth and Wa
ter streets southwest, asked the COM
mission to put the block in the IN,
dustrial zone instead of the second
commercial. He said the foundry did
repairing for all the boat lines and
had been established there twenty
| five years, and that unless put in an
Industrial zone it could not be rebuilt
if it burned down.
Wants Residential Section.
When district No. was reached
Clarence F. Donohoe, speaking TOT
that section, expressed the benel tnae
the section from Sth street TO Lincoln
Park should be changed to residen-
tial. Mr.. Donohoe pointed out that
| it would be of little use to designate
much of East Capitol street Tor pusl-
ness unless the existing slxty-1oot
parking between the sidewalk and
building line is reduced. Few bust
men he fs said dom want tbe SO sa i9ea1s
Commissioner Brownlow explained
yesterday afternoon why the e. zon la
commission in many cases has made
half of a block residential and half
Commercial con, He said experience in
other cities, particularly st: Louis.
has shown that it is better to make
the alleys the dividing line between
and residsR 6s than ane the ne t ln
fact he said. that people would rather
have their homes "back up to stores
M. Donohoe had expressed the be-
LIEF that it was unwise to designate
| half Of block residential and the re-
mainder commercial
Mr.. Donohoe also told the commit
| tee that 7th street from North Caro-
lima avenue to the navy yard gate
should be made commercial.
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