Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-01
ASSEMBLY BUSHES
NEARBY MEASURES
Senate Passes Planning Bill.
House Advances Matters Af-
teCting Arlington and Fairfax.
By LESTER N. INSKEEP,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

stafT Correspondent of The star.
RICHMOND, Va, March Taking
the lead among the many Northern
Virginia measures before the General
Assembly, the bill of Senator Frank l..
Ball of Arlington County to create the
Northern Virginia Park and Planning
Commission and the territory over
which it will have jurisdiction was
passed by the Senate yesterday without
. dissenting vote.
While this action was taking place
In the Senate the House advanced to
engroSsment, for final action today, the
Reid bill for the establishment of a
county court in Arlington County, the
Freeman bill for the relief of volunteer
flremen in Fairfax County, the Free
man bill for a referendum on a charter
change of the town of Fairfax and the
Reid f1re-escape bill. The Senate
passed the signboard bill and defeated
the Chalkley real estate board bill.
Passed Under Special Order.
The park and planning bill was made
q special order and passed at the re-
quest of Senator Ball Before its adop-
ton he added an amendment whereby
it will not become effective until rati-
fed by the governing bodies of the
three political divisions affected-Alex-
eA4AAAos 1AA4lG dAlu EdnAdA AOu11tlCS.
Delegate Hugh Reid, who is a member
of the House committee on counties,
cities and towns, stated that he eX-
pected to have the bill out of COM
mittee today.
While this bill does not clothe the
commission with the sweeping powers
that were originally planned it does
accomplish the principal purpose for
which it was drawn, the formation of
fnf to tfofe
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission in all matters per-
tanning to the section of Northern Vir-
ginia adjacent to the National CAPITAL
Senator Ball explained.
In answer to a letter from the city
council of Alexandria, in which he was
asked to withdraw the bill, Senator
Ball has written that body that he has
so amended the bill as to REQUIRE IA
vorable action by the council before it
becomes effective and that ''the queS-
ton of the orderly development of the
Northern Virginia section now lies in
your hands,
The county court bill, a purely local
measure, was advanced without discus
sion and it is expected that 1t will be
passed in the same way, the Arlington
County Bar Association having Endorsed
1t in its amended form. The bill does
away with justices of the peace and the
trial justice, domestic relations and
juvenile courts.
Relief for Firemen.
The first bill of Delegate L. L. Free
man provides the machinery whereby
the County of Fairfax may provide
financial relief for the families of vol
unteer f1remen who are injured while
hghting or going to or from fire and
for families of firemen who are killed
In the same manner. The second per-
mitS the citizens of the town of Fair
fax to vote on number of charter
changes, one providing for the estab-
hshment of wards and election of coun-
cilmen from wards instead of at large,
as is done at present.
The Reid fire escape bill provides
that all frame school buildings having
auditoriums on the second floor must
be equipped with fire escapes, unless the
buildings already are equipped with
drepEoof corridors and stairways. There
are more than 800 schools in Virginia
affected by this measure, many of them
in Northern Virginia.
As passed, the signboard bill places
such advertising under the State High
way. Commission and boards of super
visors of counties, requiring permits for
the erection of any type of sign, regard
less of size, within IS feet of the right
of-way of public highway. There is
pending separate bill prohibiting the
erection of billboards within 800 feet of
crossroads, railroad intersection or
curve. Provided favorable action is
given the measure in the House, it will
be the first really regulatory measure
Of the kind on Virginias statute books.
The real estate dealers of Alexandr4a.
Arlington and Fairfax Counties have
been greatly interested in the Chalkley
bill, which would have, in case of its
passage, done away with the present
statute which makes it an offense for
any unlicensed dealer to make even a
single sale upon which a commission is
collected. Opponents of the measure
claimed that the present law was
enacted for the purpose of protecting
the State from INSCRIPTIONS outsiders
and that not single honest resident
OF Virginia had ever been prosecuted
under it.