The Washington times., 1924-04-17
RESIDENTS
IN FAVOR
PLAN
Justice Siddons Leads Attack
on Plan at Public Hearing
by Commission.

Bitterly worded arguments over
the re-zoning plan to permit BUSH
ness to advance along Calvert
street from Adams Mill road to
Twentieth street were advanced
before the coming commission at
2 public hearing in the board
room of the District building to-
day.
With Justice Frederick L. Sid
dons, 1914 Belmont street, leading
the opposition to the plan and
representatives of the majority of
Calvert street residents and Off
GERS Of the Eighteenth street and
the Columbia Road Business Men s
Organizations championing the re-
xoning project interested parties
fought for the right to be heard.
/; Commissioner Bell, chairman of
the zoning commission, was re-
quifed repeatedly to ask for order.
Opposed by EiddOns.
Justice Siddons based his Qppo-
Aition to the commercialization Of
the thoroughfare on the effect
such a project would have on the
natural surroundings to Calvert
street.
The land adjacent to Calvert
; street. he said, is part of the prop
erty which it is planned for Con-
gress to take over as part of
! the Capitals park system.
ITO fill this neighbolhood with
delicatessen stores,N barber shops,
tailoring establishments and other
forms of shops would be to detract
from the natural beauty of this
point" he declared.
Justice Siddons and other oppo-
nents of the plan declared that
there were already more buildings
adaptable to business purposes on
Eighteenth street below Columbia
road than can be used. ~
More Vacant Buildings.
/ The rezoning plan. they, argued.
would only bring about another
street of vacant buildings, not
needed by business aid no longer
suitable as residences
Clayton Emig representing the
coming commission Of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Association, ap.
peared among those in opposition
Z to the plan.
The rezoning plan, he declared
/. was part of a scheme of certain
! interests to gain possession Of the
. property on Calvert street and
} adjacent to it in order that they
I might profiteer on the land when
they sold it to the Government for
the park system.
The business establishments in
the immediate neighborhood OF
Eighteenth street and Columbia
road, he said, were entirely ade.
quate for the needs Of the commun.
ity.
In Favor Of Change.
Following the presentation Of the
views Of the opponents to the re
coming plan, r. j. Abbaticchio
Washington lawyer, summed up
the arguments for the citizens ask
Ing the change:
1.-THE owners of the property on
! Calvert street ask only their rights
as American citizens to do with
their property as they DESIRE" he
said. Most of the property was
acquired by the owners before the
coming law was adopted, in the
belief that they could do with IL
as they wished. We feel that Cal
vert street is no longer a resi-.
Dental street, and we wish to con
vert the buildings we own there
into places of business"
Mr.. Abbaticchio declared that Cal.
. vert street is a noisy street, unsafe
for the rearing of children.
A resolution passed by the Eigh.
teenth Street and Columbia Road
Business Mems Association favor.
ing the rezoning was laid before
the committee.
Among other speakers who op.
posed the plan were Mrs. r. M.
Thompson, 2506 Cliffbourne place;
William P. Mayfield, x. c. Bran.
denburg, 1924 Calvert street; e. w.
Allen, 1928 Biltmore street, and A.
s. Farman.