Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
ARLINGTON COUNTY WAKES
TO REALIZATION OF FUTURE
Washington's Little Sister" Expects to
Make Debut" by Identification
Under Greater Capital Plan.

ming big things for nearby Virginia.
1t has large holdings there now
Arlington National Cemetery, Fort
Myer, the experimental farm, etc.
and if will need additional land on
which to lay out the imposing system
of approaches projected for the
new Memorial Bridge. TO provide
right way for the Mount Vernon
boulevard and to permit OF general
extension of the parking program
conceived under the Greater Wash
ington plan.
Much Land Industrial.
Much of the area involved in the
regional development agenda already
Is of industrial character. Many of
the factories which have settled there
have permitted their properties to
attain a run down condition far from
exhilarating to sightseers and others
The aroma of burning trash mingles
with the odor of soft coal to stfie
hapless motorists.
These industries have scattered
themselves, haphazardly, from the
Rosslyn terminus of the Key Bridge
to Alexandria. Under present regula-
tons any business man may purchase
ground in Arlington County and
build himself "a factory on it as he
PACcASCSs Wildly uIIdnlDHIGu DY ZOn-
ing restrictions. All that is neces-
sary is for him to obtain a building
permit from the county authorities,
who apparently are obliged to grant
1t providing building ordinances are
complied with. The county, however
may refuse to issue this permit IL it
believes the business to be estab-
lished may become a public nui
sance."
The county has before it at the
present time problem involving
the proposed erection in the general
vicinity of the approaches Of the Me
mortal Bridge of an abattoir. Citi-
zens of the county, to say nothing of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, are considerably
exercised over the prospect of a
slaughterhouse in this location. At
tention of the Virginia Park and
Planning Commission has been di-
rected TO this matter, and at q recent
meeting the commission went on rec
ord as condemning the erection in
such areas of factories likely toSbe.
come offensive to the public.
Stringent Law Is Solution.
The eventual solution of all such
problems lies in the enactment of
stringent coming regulations for all
the territory involved, according TO
officials of the Federal Park Com
mission. This view is shared by
civic organizations Of the county, who
are alive to the fact that Arlington
County Is rapidly becoming "Arling-
ton City," an important adjunct of
the National Capital
Residential communities are spring.
ing into existence with magic regu-
larity throughout the length and
breadth OF the county, and most of
these before long will be linked by a
city water supply system. direct from
the Governments own plant at Dale
carlia. Communities are losing their
dividing lines and are becoming ANAL
terests and aspirations.
This growth has brought forcibly
to the fore the urgent need for a coun-
ty-wide "city-planning" movement, de-
signed to standardize and harmonize
the existing and the future roads and
highways Of the embryo city.
A commission even now is consider
ing advisability of instituting a city
form OF government for the county.
cognizant of the fact that q govern
ment established to meet demands OF
a decade ago, when Arlington County
was spotted with fields OF waving
corn instead of dotted with thriving
villages, may not be equal to the un'
foreseen situation OF today.
The signs are unmistakahIas
Washington little sister" across
the Potomac, is preening herself for
the long-awaited debut.