Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-29
REzON|NC DENIED
SENATOR SMO0T
Commission Refuses Com.
merciaI Privileges in Con-
neCtiCut Avenue Area.

The request OF Senator Reed Smoot
of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance
committee, to have an area on Connec-
ticut avenue, including his home, re-
zoned for commercial uses, was denied
by the Zoning Commission yesterday.
Senator Smoot had been joined in his
request by Senator Watson of Indiana.
Numerous residents OF the section af-
fected. led by Guy H. Johnson. attacked
the Senator's request on the ground
that he had sold his home and stood
to profit If the commission should grant
it. due to a conditional clause in the
bill of sale. The request was spe-
officially to change from residential B.
B restricted and c area to first COM
mercial G area, both sides of Con-
necticut avenue from Connecticut ave-
nue. Bridge to Cathedral avenue, ex-
Guiding the Wardman Park annex, but
including the north side of Calvert
street from Woodley place to Con-
necticut avenue.
HawIey Request Denied.
A second request, opposed by the
same persons who opposed the first, was
denied, proposing change from resi-
dental B restricted to residential b
area the east side of Woodley place
from Calvert street to include 1909
Woodley place. This request was made
by DR.. and Mrs. Charles A. Hawley
through Attorney James C. Wilkes to
allow them to build an apartment house
on the site
The commission also decided against
change in the coming regulations,
which had been originated by the COM
mission itself. allowing hotels and
apartment houses in residential dis
tricts to secure occupancy permits for
drug stands, soda fountains, barber
shops, beauty parlorS, pressing and
tailoring establishments, cigar and news
stands, souvenir stands and restaurants
provided that the entrances to the eS-
Establishments were entirely inside the
motel or apartment house and that no
sign or display in connection with them
would be allowed to appear outside.
ZOning Changes Approved.
The following changes in coming were
approved
From residential B area to first COM
mercial c area the southeast corner of
Twenty-Seventh and L streets.
From residential 40-foot A restricted
area to residential 60-foot C area the
northwest corner of Forty-Second and
FeSSenden streets.
From residential c area to first COM
mercial G area the square bounded by
Fifteenth street, sherwood street and
the alley 70 feet north of sherwood
street and parallel to it.
From residential 40-foot D area to
second commercial 90-foot D area the
southeast corner of lexington place and
r street northeast and from residential
40-foot D area to industrial 90-foot D
area lot 803 in square 1916 on the cor
ner Of Quincy place and Third street
northeast.
From residential A restricted area to
first commercial G area the lots bound
ed by Shepherd street, Bunker Hill road
Twentieth and Twenty-first streets
northeast.
From first commercial C area to resi-
Dental A area lots 837, 1913 and part
of lot 839, square 1878, on the corner of
Sheridan and Evans roads southeast.
Requests Not Granted.
The following requests for rezoning
were denied:
From residential A restricted to resi-
Dental A semi-restricted area the east
side Of Twelfth street north Of Fern
street.
From second commercial 60-foot d
area to second commercial 9O-foot D
area the north side of U street between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.
Action on petition to change the
coming of the northeast corner of
Fourth and G streets northeast was
postponed until the next hearing. The
commission also agreed to rehear a Pc
dtion of Frederick j. Rice for rezoning
of the property on the west side of
Fourteenth street between Buchanan
and Crittenden streets, now occupied by
the Park Theater. This request was
denied at the commissions February
meeting.