Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-10-17
Planning Commission Sug-
gests Water Front as Second
Choice, M;=-CIty Third.
REMOVAL BEFORE MAY !
IS ALSO RECOMMENDED
Preservation of Mall Is Advocated.
Want Parking Space Inside
U. S. Buildings.
By a STAFF Correspondent of The star.

By stan Correspondent of The star.
FREDERICKsBURG. Va. October
16.-Removal of the farmers market
and the commission merchants places
of business from their present loca-
tions in the vicinity of Ninth and r
streets in Washington before May /.
1927. was recommended by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission at meeting in the Prin-
cess Ann Hotel here. which adjourned
shortly before 10 o'clock tonight
The commission recommended that
they be moved simultaneously and to
one of the following sites. with the
commissions preference in the order
named
/. A site near the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad yards in lexington.
.. site near the water front in
Southwest Washington
8. The midcity site.
The commission did not undertake
TO give A specific location in any of
these general areas at this time. but
left the matter open for further study
and development through conferences
with representatives of the farmers
and commission merchants.
Center Market Proposed.
The commission also recommended
that Center Market should not be
moved at this time. but should re-
main in its present site until the fu-
ture acquisition of land in that vicin
ity by the Government should make it
undesirable for 1t to stay there any
longer. Then, and only then. the com.
mission said IT should he moved to n
site which would he suitable to meet
the changed conditions.
The commission Centered it's con-
sideration of the problem today dur
ing its S-hour ride down the Potomac
River on the engineer launch, Chi
cago, to Wakefield. and later at
three.hour conference here on plans
for the treatment Of the Mall and the
surrounding area.
the supervising architect of the Treas
ury that the area between Seventh
and Ninth streets and r street north
west and B street southwest he kept
free from public buildings. This ts
essential. the commission will inform
the supervising architect. to the proper
development of the Mall. The COM
mission indicated that it was opposed
to the erection of any buildings with
III the area UOuIuGu Nv THESE SlIeelS.
May Extend Ninth Street.
The commission also determined
that the north and south streets now
running across the Mall should be re-
tanned and that consideration should
be given to the possibility of extend
ing Ninth street across the Mall and
that nothing should be done to block
it by attempting to erect any buildings
at this point. The possibility of de
pressing some of these north and
south streets through the Mall should
be given consideration. and instruC-
tions will be given to the commission
engineers to look into this problem.
The commission expressed the opln-
ion, and 1t will be conveyed to the
supervising architect. that the exist
ing local street running east and west,
and other north and south streets that
do not go through the Mall. could he
relocated satisfactorily to suit the
Government building program.
The executive officer of the commits
sion was directed to take up with the
District Commissioners and the street
railway companies the question OF pro
viding adequate transportation in the
triangle formed by Pennsylvania ave
nue., B, Sixth and Fifteenth streets.
Stand on Parking Cars.
The commission took a decided
stand against the parking of auto
mobiles around the proposed public
buildings and recommended that in
drawing the plans for them provi-
sion should be made for parking cans
within the buildings. The commission
said that upon the examination Of fig
ures, counting numbers of employees,
parked cars and office space in con-
nection with the Navy and Munitions
Building, and the application Of these
figures TO the situation of the Com
merce Building, it appears that ap
proximately the equivalent of one full
story tone and one-third times the
floor area) would be required in a
building on the Fifteenth street site
to accommodate the cars of employees
of that department. Upon approx
mate calculation of land values and
building costs it appeared that the
provision of parking area on open
ground is more expensive than pro-
vision of automobile space in buildings.
Another recommendation by the
commission tonight was that in gen
eral the buildings which it is proposed
to erect along Pennsylvania avenue
should have their fronts parallel TO
that thoroughfare.
The commission tonight gave in
structions to the executive officer to
make a study of the question of the
ACQUISITION of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal by the Government and
should he decide that it> should be
obtained, to make suggestions at the
December meeting of the commission
as TO how il should be treated in the
general scheme of regional develop
ment of Washington.
Site for an ArmOry.
The site for an armory for the Ma
tional Guard of the District was also
discussed by the commission. and it
recommended that the Public Build.
ings Commission study the question
in connection with the Government
building program. Attorney General
Sargent recently gave an opinion in
which he held that the National
Guard of Washington was such a Fed
eral activity as to place it under the
jurisdiction of the Public Buildings
Commission to find a suitabio home
for it.
A resolution from the supervisors
of Arlington County was presented TO
the commission requesting it to take
the initiative in mapping out a re-
gional plan for the development of
Arlington County. Va. 1t pledged the
support of the supervisors and asked
that the commission cooperate alsn