Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-07
GATE
TOCAP|TkL IS PLAN
Wisconsin Avenue Project to
Be Discussed by Planning
Commission at Meeting.
BY WILLIAM J. wHEATLEY,

SLIGO, Md, November PLANS for
the development of an entrance portal
into the District of Columbia at the
District line and Wisconsin avenue will
be studied and discussed tonight at the
meeting of the Maryland-National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission.
The commission will have before it
prepared by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, in conjunc-
ton with Irving @. Root, chief engineer
of the Maryland body. The plan has
been approved by the co-ordinating
committee of the Federal body, but has
not yet been discussed by the Federal
commission, to which it probably will
be submitted at its next meeting.
AS drawn, the plan will provide per-
haps the most impressive portal of any
yet planned for the highways leading
into the District. TRAFFIC will be guided
down the broad eXpanse OF Wisconsin
avenue, which is to be considerably inn
proved on the Maryland side of the line
between Bradley lane and the District
line by leveling OF the car tracks to
grade.
Traffic using this highway will not
have to pass through any industrial
area near the entrance such as is pro-
posed in Silver Spring and west Of here
on the direct highway to Sixteenth
street, which is also proposed for treat
ment as an entrance. However, only q
meager circle and parking is to be pro-
vided at Sixteenth street, nothing like
as pretentious rs is proposed for Wis
consin avenue. Traffic brought in by
way of Sixteenth street will have to
pass the industrial zone, the actual OPP
erations of which it is proposed to hide
by great expanse of brick wall.
The Wisconsin avenue entrance will
be approached by a broad boulevard,
which, it was said, will be $50 feet
between property lines, with an addi-
tional IS foo5 setback on each side to
the building line. The width of Wis
consin avenue in the District is 100 feet,
so that the Maryland approach will be
considerably wider.
The proposed circle at the District
line will be 400 feet in diameter, or
about the same size as the present
Chevy Chase Circle. 1t is proposed to
run through traffic on highway pass
ing through this circle instead of around
it, although the plan provides for road
ways around the circle. TRAFFIC using
Military road, which will intersect the
proposed circle, however, will have to
| use the outside roadways, as 1t is not
proposed TO b,sect the circle with this
highway.
The county authorities, It was said,
Will nave prepared THIS winter plans
for the treatment of Wisconsin avenue
| between Bradley lane and the District
line and the proposed circle will be
included in this project. 1t will involve
the acquisition of property both in the
District of Columbia and in Maryland
| and will neceSsitate the moving of the
| gasoline filling station now located at
the line, as it is now on land which
will be needed for the development of
the portal. 1t is planned now to begin
actual work on Marylands portion Of
the project next Spring.
The whole project, it was said, is a
direct result Of the pressure brought to
bear by civic organizations located on
Wisconsin avenue in Maryland between
| the District of Columbia line and
Bradley lane, which contended before
the county authorities that their section
was being Disseminated against in the
| way of Improvements in favor Of the
area north of Bradley lane.