Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-09
Commission Grants Market
Petition, but Requires
Street DELEGATIONS.
RULINGS ARE REACHED
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION
Connecticut Avenue Triangles Or
dered to Become Commercial,
but East Side Is Denied.

Compromise decisions, under which
petitioners were granted part of what
they sought, were reached by the zon-
ing Commission in executive session
today in acting on the requested
change in the permitted use of Calvert
street at Connecticut avenue and Is
acres Of the Union Terminal Market
area, in the Patterson tract.
Decisions in these two cases, which
precipitated determined contests be-
fore the commission at the hearing:
held last week, thus will give to the
owners of the sites, in part, the ere.
lief" they asked and will also to some
extent answer the pleas of owners Of
homes in nearby sections for protection
against the encroachment of business.
In the case of the Union Terminal
Market Co., which sought to have
changed from residential to second COM
mercial classification the 15-acre area
lying between the present market devel-
opment at Fifth street and Florida ave-
nue. northeast and the grounds of Gal
laudet College to the east of Sixth
street, the commission ruled that part
of this petition would be granted after
Gated all streets for the section now
projected on the highway plan for the
District
Strip Classification Retained.
Further, the commission decided, the
strip of land to the east of the line
of Sixth street, as projected on the
highway map, will be retained in its
present residential classification. This
would serve to set up buffer area be-
TWEEN the market developments and the
grounds of Gallaudet College, as well as
to protect the entrance, along Sixth
street, to the Patterson tract park area
to the north.
1t also was provided that strip of
land on the north side of Florida ave-
nue. would be zoned first commercial,
instead of second commercial, to pro-
tect the street from the heavy type of
commercial structures which might be
erected under the lower classification.
The change was urgently requested at
the nearing by representatives of the
81 100000 Union Terminal Market and
the owners of the Patterson Tract area,
so that the projected expansion of the
market could be completed 1t was Wig
orously protested by DR.. Percival Hall,
president of the Columbia Institution
for the Deaf, and prominent citizens of
the northeast, who feared injury to the
value of nearby residences and Gallau-
Diet College and the approach to the
Patterson Park
In the case of the Connecticut ave-
changed from residential to first COM
mercial classification the two triangular
areas on either side of Connecticut
avenue between Calvert street and Rock
Greek Park, but denied the same
change proposed for the east side of
Connecticut avenue between Calvert
street and Woodley road.
Change Urged Twice Before.
The former residence of Senator
Smoot of Utah stands on the triangle
on the east side of the avenue south
of Calvert street. This change has been
twice before urged upon the commits
sion, which twice before declined to
make the change.
Vigorous protest against this petition
was made by nearby home owners, who
contended that no additional first COM
mercial area was needed in the section
and that the change would lower the
desirability of their property as resi-
dences.