Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-10
ARLINGTON ZONES
CHANGES ARE MADE
County Board Bows to
Wishes of Citizens Ex-
pressed at Hearings.
BY LESTER N. INSKEEP,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va.
December 1o.-In an effort to rush
their work to completion that the ten
tative ordinance may be ready within
a short time for presentation to the
Board of County Supervisors, the Ar
lington County zoning Commission held
an executive session at the court house
last night, at which a number Of
changes were made in the ordinance.
The changes made were all the re-
suit of suggestions that were made by
citizens at the various public hearingc
held throughout the county, especially
with regard to the Virginia Highlands,
Aurora Hills, Lyon Park, Fort Myer
Heights and Rosslyn sections. In all of
these sections there was considerable
objection to the amount of area that
had been tentatively zoned Residential
A. ]. Webb, secretary, changed large
amount of the territory so zoned to
Residential A"
Apartments Barred.
The building of apartment houses
and semi-detached houses is permitted
Under the "B" classification, and while
the commission confined most of the
zoning under this head to the main
highways. a greater number of the resi-
dents desired that their territories be
classified only for the highest type OF
residential development.
The commission also discussed at
length the questions asked by Col. u. S.
Grant, Bird, executive officer of the Ms
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, with respect to the amount of
commercial waterfront development
desired by the county. Having previ-
ously decided to base their answer upon
the tentative coming done by them, it
was one of the purposes of last night S
meeting to as nearly complete the map
as possible, so that the Federal body
can judge from that what the commits
sion desires.
Letter to Col. Grant.
In connection with Col. Grants ques-
tons the following letter to him, which
was prepared by the secretary, was ap-
proved by the commission:
Considering the course of the chan
mel now open to river navigation and
elimination of territory by construction
of the new Mount Vernon Boulevard
and approaches to the Arlington Me-
mortal Bridge, the balance left available
might benefit Arlington County is eX-
ceedingly limited. That portion men,
toned in your letter as in the vicinity
of Alexandria and the Potomac Yards,
of course, will be entirely beyond the
control of the county after December
81, 1929, and cannot, therefore, be con-
sidered in the plans for Arlington
County.
IN connection with this subject also
your attention is invited to the fact
that, as far as this commission is con-
cerned, there is no conflict between the
two features of the development of Ar
lington County-that is, residential and
commercial. In our studies for the
present and future of the county we
have been inclined to recognize the fact
that both forms seem to have their
merits worthy of consideration for flu
ture development, and our efforts have
been particularly directed toward plan
ming and maintaining the proper bal
ance or relationship between the two
forms, aiming to avoid the possibilities
of future development in one direction
to the ultimate detriment Of the other -