Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
ZONE COMMISSION
MAKES6CHANGES
Reservoir Road and Far
Northwest Action Put Off.
Six Pleas Rejected.

Acting upon the suggestion of the
Commission of Fine Arts. Capt. Her.
bert c. Whitehurst. assistant District
Engineer Commissioner in charge of
coming. recommended. to the Zoning
Commission at it's executive session
today that a uniform 90-foot-height
area be established for all property
within the vicinity of the Union Sta
ton. The commission will consider
this proposal at it's public hearing in
September.
Shortly after the Fine Arts Commits
sion suggested that the buildings
erected around the Union Station
should be of a uniform height Capt.
Whitehurst made survey of the
property involved and concurred in
the commissions recommendation
AS now zoned the property has a
height area ranging from 90 to 80
feet.
Capt. Whitehnrst's recommendation
for a 90-foot area concerns all property
on the east side of Second street from
Massachusetts, avenue to f street, the
south side Of p street from First to
Second streets and the intersection
of Massachusetts, avenues and the
south side of Massachusetts avenue
from the intersection of d street to
Third street
IL Proposals Acted On.
Twelve of the Il proposed changes
in coming considered by the Coming
Commission at its public hearing
Thursday We're disposed of at the
executive session. The remaining
two were continued and will be acted
on at the August meeting of the com.
mission. One proposed to change
from residential A restricted to resi-
Dental Il rescrited area property
north of Reservoir road and east of
FoXall road. The other proposed to
rezone from residential A restricted
to residential A area large section
In North Cleveland Park bounded on
the south by Upton street, on the east
by ThirtY-SiXth street and Reno road.
on the north by Warren and Alton
streets and on the west by Thirty
Eighth street and Wisconsin avenue.
The principal change approved
rezoned the property in the rear of
the southeast corner of Georgia
avenue and Gallatin street from resi-
Dental B to first commercial area,
The change was requested by the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.,
which has planned to erect a new
exchange on the site.
Other changes approved follow:
Change<from second commercial D
to industrial d lots Nos. and 3, square
1896. south of Irving street north
east, between Eighth street and Bal
timore & Ohio tracks. The original
petition for this change also included
lot No. I, which the commission did
rot approve In its action.
Change from second commercial D
to residential c. area the frontage on
the east side of Fifteenth Street
northeast between sherwood and T.
streets.
Change from residential D to first
commercial d area lots !, and 8,
square 532, north OF ID street between
Third and Fourth streets
Change from residential D to- first |
commercial area property at 722 |
Eighteenth street.
Change from residential A restrict |
ed to residential A area property |
within the area bounded on the east |
by Woodley road, on the west by |
Twenty-eighth street, on the north |
by Calvert street and on the south I
by Rock Creek Park.
Six Others Rejected.
Six proposed changes in coming |
were rejected by the commission.
They follow:
A proposal to rezone from resi- !
dental B to first commercial C. |
property at the northeast corner of |
Seventeenth and A streets southeast.
A proposal to rezone from resi-.
Dental B to first commercial c prop
erty along the north side of B street |
southeast between Eighteenth street |
and the north and south public alley |
East thereof
A proposal to resZone from resi- |
Dental b to first commercial B prem |
sises at 53S First street southeast.
The proposal to change from resi- |
Dental c to first commercial G area |
premises 303 to 500 p street. |
A proposal TO change from first |
commercial . to second commercial |
j area property on the south side of |
i street between Fifteenth and Six !
teenth streets.
A proposal to reZone from residen- |
tial 3 to first commercial G premises !
at 1907 Thirty-fifth street