Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-11
ZONE RULE CHANGES
SET FOR HEARING
Commission to Consider Two
important Propositions at
Meeting February 20.

Two important changes in the Zon-
ing regulations will be considered at
the next public hearing before the
zoning Commission at 10 am, February
20, in the District Building.
One of them would permit hotels or
| apartment houses located in residential
areas to operate drug stands, soda foun-
tainS, and other adjuncts now reserved
| for apartments or hotels in commercial
areas, under certain conditions The
other would allow private two-car
garages to be erected without the con-
sent of adjacent property owners now
required.
In the hotel amendment, the test of
whether the commercial enterprise will
be allowed in the residential area viii
be whether 1t distinctly pertains or is
an appropriate adjunct to hotel or
apartment house.
Business Not Included.
It will not include such businesses as
grocery stores, meat markets, or any
other whose function Is to serve the en-
tire community rather than the inhabi-
tantS of the particular hotel where 1t is
situated
The proposed garage amendment
reads: "A private garage housing not
more than two steam or motor driven
vehicles, not exceeding 400 square feet
in area, and not aplrtenant to dwell
ing, may be erected without the consents
specified in section III when located SO
feet or more back of the building line of
the nearest street, and If abutting or
opening directly upon public alley"
The coming changes which will be
considered at the hearing are:
Area Changes Considered.
Change from residential c area to
first commercial G area, lot 100, square
181, designated as 1882 p street.
Change from residential D area to
first commercial u area, lot 1874, square
PAT, known as 1870 Thirteenth street.
Change from residential C area to
first commercial c area, lot 800, square
463, being the northwest corner of
Sixth and G. streets southwest.
Change from 60 feet to 80 feet height
district, lot 5, square T6l, known as
204-206 Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Change from first commercial c
area to residential G area, triangle 915,
entire, bounded by Maryland avenue,
Eighth and E streets northeast
Change from residential B area to
first commercial G area, lots 815, IL and
813, square 1902, known as 2517-2521
Connecticut avenue.
Change from residential c area to
first commercial C area, triangle 1908
entire, bounded by Connecticut avenue,
Calvert and .Twenty-fourth streets.
Change from residential B restricted
area to residential B area, lot $50.
square zoos, being the east side OF
Woodley place, from Calvert street to
include O60Q W0od1nv nIacn
Change from residential G area to
first commercial G area, the part Of lot
805, square 2897, now zoned residential,
located on the east side of New Ham,
shire avenue, between Princeton place
and Georgia avenue.
Change from residential A restricted
area to residential A Semi-restricted
area, lots 36-39, inclusive, square 1913,
and 39-44, inclusive, square 1914, being
the interior lots facing on Thirty-ninth
street, in squares 1913 and 1914.
Change from residential, 40 feet, B
area, to residential, go feet, G area, lots
802, 804 and 805, square 1865, and lot
BOZ, square 1854, known as the
Mount Carmel Retreat House, bounded
by Second, T and Third streets north
east
Change from first commercial, G
area, to residential A area, so much of
Thirteenth street, north of Varnum
streets, as is now zoned first commercial
and from residential A area to first
commercial c area, a strip 100 feet
wide on each side of Sargent road from
Varnum street to South Dakota avenue
northeast.
Transfers to Residential.
Change from residential, 40 feet, A
restricted area, to residential, 60 feet,
c area, lots 1882, inclusive, square
4128, being on the south side of Frank
lin street between Rhode Island avenue
and Seventeenth street northeast.
Change from residential, 40 feet, A
restricter area, to residential, so feet,
C area, the parts of lots 81, inclusive,
and of parcels 144/7 and 1914, and
lots and 8, being that part of square
4021, now zoned residential, fronting
on Brentwood road and Girard street
between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets
northeast.
Change from first commercial c area
to residential A area, west side of
Wheeler road from Savannah street to
| alley 100 feet south of Alabama avenue
| southeast.