Evening star., 1925-04-21
APARTMENT ZONE
ruling ANNOUNCED
Structures Banned on Mas
SachusettS Avenue Beyond
TWenty-First Street.

Erection of apartment houses will
be permitted on Massachusetts, avenue
from Fifteenth to Twenty-first street,
but prohibited beyond that point. the
Zoning Commission announced today.
At the public hearing last week the
commission considered a petition in
which it was asked that Massachu.
setts avenue be restricted against en-
croachment of apartment houses all
the way from Fifteenth street to
Water Side drive.
There was considerable debate at
the hearing both for and against the
petition. Several speakers pointed
out that on that part of Massachu.
setts avenue near the downtown Sec
ton of the city boarding houses al
ready are being established and that
1t would be unfair under such con.
ditions to prohibit apartment houses
there.
Dupont Citizens Protest.
The Dupont Circle Citizens AS.
sociation took part in the hearing,
advocating that apartment houses be
kept out.
The commission also announced
alley west of Sixteenth street to
Twentieth street will be changed from
residential to a first commercial area.
The commission denied the applica-
tion to permit row houses in the area
bounded by Quackenbos street, Con-
cord avenue, Madison street, Blair
road and Georgia avenue.
The commission granted the peti-
ton to permit row houses in the area
in the northeast bounded on the north
by n street, south by Benning road,
east by Oklahoma avenue and on the
west by Twenty-second street between
K and y streets and by Nineteenth
street between K street and Benning
road.
Request Is Refused.
The commission refused to change
from residential to industrial prop
erty on the south side of Riggs road
northeast between First place and the
railroad.
The commission granted a change
prohibiting apartment houses in the
area bounded by Webster, Emerson,
Fifth and Ninth streets
The commission voted to permit row
houses on a parcel of land bounded by
Western avenue, Forty-fourth street
and Harrison street, except on the
Western avenue frontage.
The west portion of property on
the east side Of Thirty-sixth street be-
tween Eilicott and Davenport streets
was changed from "a, restricted" and
40-foot height limit to &C area" with
a 60-foot height limit.
Certain property near the southeast
corner Of Sherman avenue and Column
bia road was changed from "B" to
''C' area, which permits of occupying
the larger percentage of the lot by a
building.
Height Limit Raised.
The height limit of the northeast
corner Of Seventeenth and K streets
was increased from 80 to 10 feet.
Property on both sides of Seventh
street between Massachusetts avenue
and G streets northeast was changed
from first commercial to residential.
The commission refused to change
the east side of Connecticut avenue
between Mckinley and Morrison
streets from residential to first. COM
mercial.
The request to zone the west side
of Connecticut avenue opposite the
Geological Park from residential to
first commercial was postponed until
next month, when the commission
will consider applying the change be-
tween Cathedral avenue and Ordway
street.
on Eads street between Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth streets northeast from
residential to second commercial area.