The Washington times., 1920-08-10
YARDS EXEMPT
FROM zONERS
Front Lawns will Not Be Chang
ed in Any Way, Commis-
sion Announces. .

Front yards will not be interferred
with by any regulations OF the Dis
trict coming commission, IL was an
nounced today during the course OF
the public hearing on coming held in
the board room OF the District build
ing.
The commission brought out the
fact that the past acts OF the courts
make IL clear that except by legis-
lation or condemnation proceedings
there can be no regulating OF the size
OF a front yard.
Front yards face the streets, and,
therefore ample air Is provided. The
commission, however. can claim, IL Is
unh ealthy to build houses very close
together or too near the rear OF the
alley.
Section No. IL, taking in the streets
around Mt. Pleasant, was heard this
morning by the commission. William
Henry White. secretary OF the ad-
visory committee OF this section, rep
resented II and presented the follow
ing statement:
Second tentative use map shows
as business the west side of Mt. Pleas
ant street between Park road and
Lamont street. Your committee thinks
that only that part of the area ac-
tually occupied by the Argyle apart
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that the remainder OF this whole
square should be residence. We call
your attention TO the fact that there
is in front of this square a public
park, that the whole of the face Of
the square is permanently improved
with high grade large brick res
licences. Your committee is unable to
understand why the Argyle should
be designated as business when the
Kenesaw is residence. The Kenesaw
lies south OF Irving street and be-
tween sixteenth and Mt. Pleasant
streets, and is a similar building,
with a practically identical use. each
having a drug store and tailoring
establishment.
"As to the square fronting on Mt.
Pleasant street and lying between
Irving and >obart streets, your COM
mittee recommends that the face OF
this square fronting on Mt. Pleasant
street should remain business from
the corner of the alley, but from the
alley to Hobart street should be res
idence. The corner of Hobart and
Mt. Pleasant street is improved by
modern large residences fronting on
Hobart streets and establishing this
corner as business will injure the
long row of houses on both sides of
lying between Morton and Lamont
streets and Georgia and Sherman
avenues your committee recommends
that the lots fronting on Georgia
avenue should be business: that the
lots fronting on Sherman should be
residence; that the remainder OF the
square should be commercial No. >.
so as to preserve the value OF the
valuable improvements therein"
In addition TO the foregoing includ-
ed in the report of his committee. Mr..
White submitted the following sug-
gestions personally:
That all of the squares lying be-
tween Euclid street on the south and
Morton street on the north be zoned
as follows: All of the lots fronting
on Georgia avenue be declared to be
business; all of the lots fronting on
Sherman avenue be declared to be
residence: and all of these squares
lying between be declared to be sec
ond commercial. In this connection
I call to your attention the treatment
given by your commftee to the ter
ritory just south, and to the obvious
need for a growth of this sort i'm
mediately north.