The Washington times., 1923-10-31
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Sig Area IN Northwest Is Set
Aside for Detached
Residences.

ignoring vigorous opposition
voiced by big real estate inter
esta, the Zoning Commission in
executive session at the District
building today ordered that seven
sections of the northwest section
Of the city be confined to detached
and semi-detached homes, chang
Ing the sections from "a" area to
"A restricted" area.
1000 at Hearing.
This order is considered the most
Bignif. cant ever rendered by the
Coming Commission and follows the
hearing of nearly thousand people
pnsthe subject.
Following are the sections which
win be limited to detached or semi
tached homes, barring stores, apart.
fnent houses, theaters and row
houses:
Boundaries Announced.
Il North. District line; south, Al
berTnarIe street and Audubon ter.
race; east. Rock Greek Park; west,
District line.
q. North, Tilden street; south,
9nyder's lane, Wisconsin avenue,
w street. Massachusetts avenue,
California street: east, Twenty-third
street. Connecticut avenue, Calve'
street, Twentyninth street, Cathedr !
avenue, Rock Creek Park; west, Ar
soma avenue. Massachusetts, avenu
Thirty-ninth street, Tunlaw road.
street northwest, between Thirty
\vof ~SYoo4 ord Wfcoouciy1 axyopna
4. North, Edmunds street; south,
New Cut and Canal roads and U
street; east. Forty-eighth street;
west, Nebraska avenue.
5. North. District line and Rock
Greek Park; south, Alaska avenue;
east, Alaska avenue and District
line; west, Rock Creek Park.
6. North, District line; south,
1uckerman. Fifth and Rittenhouse
streets; east. District line; west,
Georgia avenue.
4. North, Kennedy street: south,
Shepherd street; east. Sixteenth
street, Decatur street, Iowa avenue,
Buchanan street; west. Rock Creek
Park.
Other Decisions.
Other decisions made today follow:
Commercial:
Frontage on east side of Eleventh
place northeast, between Queen and
Haum streets, granted.
Frontage on south side of Column
6ia road northwest, between Sew
enteenth street and Mozart place,
denied.
Frontage on south side of Poplar
street northwest, between Twenty.
seventh and Twenty-eighth streets.
granted.
4 Parcel -55-171. square 2218. located
near northeast corner of Connect
cut avenue and Macomb street, de-
MED.
Lots % and Sc, square 499. located
on southeast corner of Florida ave-
nue. and Fourth street northeast, ac-
ton suspended.
Z Lots 81 and %, square 804, located
on south side Of street southwest,
near Four-and-a-half street, denied.
4 g Second Commercial.
Change from residential to second
commercial:
= Lot 500. square 4, located on north
east corner of Twenty-seventh and
u ttreets northwest, granted.
Change from fipst commercial to
resttential: Lots rs, "a, %. and 90,
square 2843, located between Ken.
yoH street and Park road, near
IouFteenth streettnorthwest, denied.
Change from first commercial to
second commercial Lots Is, 500 and
sO5t square $3.50, located on south
west corner of Butternut street and
Blair road, granted. e ~
Change from "B' to "a" area:
Frontage on both sides of Thir.
teeDth street northwest. between
Lo1gfellOw and Madison streets
denied.
Change from "C"'t to "a" area:
: frontage on both sides Of Conduit
roae .4betyeen U and Edmunds
etr@qEs, Granted.
sOhneas1Som So to s5-foot height
La les. square 1885, located nj
prefnse 1923 Twenty eighth street
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