Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
HEARING PLANNED
ION 9O-FOOT HEIGHT
Zoning Commission to Take
Up Proposal for Vicinity
of Union Station.

Establishment of a uniform height
limit of 90 feet in the commercial
areas in the vicinity of the Union
Station, recommended some time ago
by the Commission of Fine Arts, will
be considered by the Zoning Commits
sion at a public hearing in the board
room of the District Building, Sep
tember %
Existing coming regulations pre-
scribe a height of 50 feet in certain
commercial zones adjacent to the rail
road terminal. while others have
90-foot limit. The territory affected
by the proposed change includes prop
crty abutting the east side of Second
street northeast between MaSSachu-
sets avenue and + street. property
abutting the south side of ID street
northeast between First street and
Massachusetts avenue and property
ahuttng the south side of Massachu-
sets avenue between ID and Third
streets northeast.
Fourteen other proposed changes in
coming, together with an amendment
To prevent the erection of private
garages housing not moro than four
cars in first commercial districts with
out consent, providing they arc 10.
Gated 80 feet back of the front build
ing line, and if the entrance is from
public alley. also will be considered
at the hearing.
Acacia Life Asks Change.
Ono of the changes is urged by the
Acacia Mutual Life Association, and
involves the property bounded by In
diana and New Jersey avenues and
ID and Second streets, where it plans
to- erect n big office building The
CnmpanY'S petition asked that the Zon-
ing be changed SO as to permit a 10
foot height limit.
The 0tner changes proposed follow:
Property ut tn" southeast corner Of
Thirteenth and T streets Southea st
from residential f. 40 foot. to first
commercial G. 90 foot.
Property ON the south side Of Hayes
street northeast hetWocu Dcanc ave
nue and FOrtN-ninth street from first
commercial {, 40 foot, TO residential
A. 10 foot.
Property within the area bounded
on the west by Third street, on the
south hy Concord avenue. on the east
ny New hampshire avenue, Riggs
road and tho District line. on the
north by the line of the A restricted
area approximately 100 feet south of
Quakcphos street west Of North Cap
itol street. and by Rittenhouse street
east of North Capitol street, except
the commercial property within this
area, from residential A and 3 areas
10 residential \ restricted area.
Other Changes Proposed.
Property at the northwest corner of
Rhode Island avenue and Tenth street
northeast. from residential 3. 40 feet,
TO first commercial G, so feet.
a IN hn xlol
an the north by L. on the south by
r street, on the east by Thirtieth and
on the west by Bladensburg road, eX-
cept the first commercial Bladens-
burg road frontage and the industrial
property on L street, from residential
3 restricted to residential d area
Area in the northeast bounded by
kearney street on the south. Monroe
street on the north. Eighth street on
The west and the tracks of the Met
rOpolitan branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad on the east, from sec
ond commercial d, so feet, to residen-
tial Il, 40 feet.
Property on both sides of Q between
Fifteenth and the first commercial
property facing Fourteenth street.
from residential c, 60 and 80 foot. TO
first commercial c, 80 and 80 foot.
Residential to Commercial.
The frontage on the east side OF
Eighth, north of the present first
commercial property. facing Barry
place, from residential b to first com
mercial {, 60-foot height.
Property abutting the south side of
Columbia road between Seventeenth
street and Mozart place, from resi-
dental c. 90 foot, to first commercial
{, 90 foot
Property ahutting both sides OF
Mount Pleasant street. between
Irving and Kenyon streets, from resi-
dental { TO first commercial Z, 60
foot height area.
Tho area bounded by Harvard
street Eighteenth street, Quarry
road and Lanier place, from resi-
dental restricted, 60-foot height, to
residential Il. 90.foot height.
Property abuttinG both sides OF
Connecticut avenue between North
ampton street and Chevy Chase
circle, from residential c to first com
merrial c area, 60foot height.
Property on the east side of Wis
Consin avenue from Grant road to
the boundary of lot 6. square 1880
from residential c to first CONNER
dol ~ area 60.faOf height