Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
MANOR PARK ZONE
RULING POSTPONED
Community Houses Cues
ticnS involved in Other
Areas in Northwest.

The petition of Harry Wardman to
change coming of a part of Manor
Park to permit community houses,
which resulted in a stormy session
between Mr.. Wardman and citizens of
that section at the public hearing yes.
terday, was postponed for decision
until September, at an executive meet
ing of the Zoning Commission today.
The commission has before it several
large areas in the northwest involving
this same question, and officials ex-
planned that the Manor Park case was
laid over in order that a careful study
may be made of the broad principle in.
volved in these several large areas
namely, whether community groups OF
three houses and double houses are
to be barred from the A restricted area
after this year.
The commission decided several
months ago that after January 1 moth.
ing but detached homes could be erect
ed in an A restricted area, and officials
stated today that the study now being
given to the Manor Park and similar
cases does not necessarily mean that
the January regulation is to be modi
fed.
Questions Involve Frontage.
While officers of the commission
were not prepared to discuss today
just what solution they have under
consideration, it is understood that
there has been some discussion of
the advisability of permitting COM
munity house groups with certain re-
StrictiOns, such as requiring that a
certain amount of frontage should be
left as open space in a block. The
outcome of the entire question will
not be known until next month.
Between now and January, as the
regulations stand, double houses may
be built in an "A restricted area, but
no community houses or apartments.
Mr.. Wardman stated at the hearing
yesterday that If the petition to
change the zone from his property
in Manor Park to A area is granted
he plans to develop the property as
single, double or community groups
of three together.
The coming commission granted the
petition changing property on the
west side Of Eighteenth street and
Connecticut avenue between Nj and \
streets from a 90-foot to a 110-fOOt
height district. also certain property
on the east side OF Connecticut ave
nue. and Eighteenth street between
Rhode Island avenue and n street.
Other Changes Approved.
Other changes approved by the com
mission follow: Frontage on both
sides of Thirty-sixth street northwest.
for q distance of 100 feet north of NJ
street, from first commercial to sec
snf. f,,Op bat
sides of Connecticut avenue from y
street to Dupont Circle, from the 90
foot to the 110-foot height district;
from A area to A restricted all of the
property running from Twenty-eighth
street and Texas avenue east to
Branch avenue, south to Alabama
avenue, east To Thirty-siXth street,
south to the District line, southwest
along that line to Thirty second street,
north to Alabama avenue and thence
west to Twenty eighth street and
along the line Of Twenty-eighth street
to the place of beginning, except the
first commercial property at Twenty
eighth street and Alabama avenue:
lots 40 to As. in square Ia. changed
from first commercial to second com
mercial.
1t was announced today that at the
Ii1AI ViI socPtCiilbCk ltAV
commission will have before it again
the request to change a portion of the
south side of Columbia road between
Seventeenth street and Mozart place
from residential to first commercial
The change has been requested by
Nine. Marie Won Unschuld. This is
the same neighborhood which involved
the property Of Mrs. Anna Sherman
who more than a year ago filed suit
in the District Supreme Court attack
ing the constitutionality of coming
property according to its use. The
case is pending in the District Court
Of Appeals. Under the rules of the
Zoning Commission, it receives appli
cations to reconsider a case after the
lapse of year.