The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-07
C|T|zENSFIGH 7
CONN. AVE.
STORES
Will Protest at Zone Meeting
Granting OF Permits to
Kennedy Brothers.

Modification of the coming law is
threatened, according to members
of the Connecticut Avenue Citizens
Association, ii the application filed
by Kennedy Brothers. contractors,
for q permit to erect an apartment
house with the ground floor design
ed for business purposes, meets
with the approval of the Coming
Commission.
The proposed building will be
erected, they declare, within. the
residential section including the
four blocks north of the million
dollar bridge on Connecticut avenue,
set aside by the Zone Commission
as a strictly residential district.
The site indicated in the applica-
ton is the northeast corner of Con-
necticut avenue and Cathedral
street. The Connecticut Avenue
Citizens Association will attend in
. body the hearing to be held to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock be-
District building against the grant.
ing of the permit.
You might as well say the zon-
asked for by Kennedy Brothers to
house and store building at Con-
necticut avenue and Cathedral
street is granted said an official
OF the association today. tThe idea
is prep0sterous, In the first place,
within the four blocks on Connect
cut avenue, north Of the 1000. 600
bridge, the homes are OF the costlier
kind.
Costly Homes Affected.
'NThey average more than see. 1000
each. They were erected with the
understanding the section was to
be maintained as . strict residential
district.
Now comes the proposal to
vitiate all that by building an
apartment house in the zone. with
stores in the basement. II means
just this, IL permit for it il grant
ed every owner within the four
blocks will file an application TO
convert his property into business
structure, and some Of US are pre-
pared to so to the United States
Supreme Court to get that permit,
If necessary.
1.-THE neighhorhood is not lacking
in stores. There ara az many there
now ais competition will let live,
SO the need for more obviously does
not exist"
Views OF Members.
Members of the association today
pointed to the stores In the Ward
man Park Hotel, declaring they pro-
.vided everything the net&hbOrh0od
needed. which, with other stores scat
tered through the sectfon. made ad-
ditional store cORveniencea unMeoes-
sary.
That there will be vigorous pro-
test made against the granting OF the
Kennedy permit became evident
today when it was learned that prac-
tically all OF the members of the asao-
citation are arranging to attend the
hearing.
If one such exception is made,
there is no end to those the ZoRins
Commission win be forced to grant
to be consistent" said q member,
who declared heahad a fifty-foot lot
within the four4block residential zone
affected with a substantial residence
erected on IL which he viii inme-
diately convert into business prop
erty If the Kennedy application is
granted.
Bans Playing FavOrites.
There shall be no playing OF Ia
vorites in this case" he said. II can
convert my property to business pur'
poses and realize a handsome profit
on the investment. certainly shall
do so. If necessary I will carry the
case to the United States Supreme
Court.
"a case similar in nature is now
pending before the United States Su
preme Court. Yet with the decision
unannounced. this application Is be
ing made to do the very thing which
started the suit now before the su'
preme tribunal"
A largely attended meeting Of the
association was held last night, when
drastic action was decided upon, Ii
was decided to attend in a body the
hearing before the Zoning Commits
sion tomorrow and protest against
the issuance of the Kennedy permit
on the ground that it would violate
the coming law.