Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-25
Ban in Congested Area Be-
tween 8 and $50 Am.
Among Plans.
PROPOSALS ADOPTED
IN YESTERDAYS SESSION
Body Sees Need for Immediate Re
lief Because of Government
Developments.

Elimination of all night parking at
any place on the streets of the Capital
within the next two years, a ban on
parking in the consested area between
and $50 am. and two-hour park
ing limit for the districts Immediately
surrounding the present congested areas
are the high points in a series of def
mite proposals to aid in solving the
automobile parking and garage problem
made public today by the Automobile
Parking Committee OF washington
through the Office of Lieut.. COL U. S.
Grant, 3rd, chairman.
The recommendations we're approved
at meeting late yesterday afternoon
in the Navy Department Building.
4 The purpose of the proposed ban on
parking in the business area between
and $50 am, it was explained. is to
eliminate a large volume of all-day
parkers who leave their cars at that
time.
The committee consists of representa-
tives of the Federal and District gov
ernments and of the trade and civic or
CARNATIONS of Washington. The report
was prepared, under the sponsorship of
theNcommittee, by DR.. Miller McClintock
OF the Erskine Bureau and the staff of
the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, working under the super
vision of Col. Grant and Charles W.
Eliot, director Of planning.
Committee Proposals..
The proposals of the COMMITTEES are
as follows:
Parking regulations should be based
on business needs, with as great lib
erality as is consistent with necessary
freedom of movements and equitable
division of available facilities.
Angle parking should be eliminated,
as the Is per cent reduction in capacity
on the few streets where it is now per-
mitted will be more than compensated
for by greater regularity of parking and
traffic movements.
The provision permitting double
line parking should be repealed and
strict prohibition substitutes
Loading zones should be freely
established, with the special provision
that they may be occupied by waiting
private cars in charge of driver when
the zone Is not required for loading
or unloading.
"One-hour parking limits should be
continued in the congested districts as
defined in the official regulations. and
this district should be extended south
ward to B street and west to Fiji
tenth street. One-hour limits should
also be applied to any business dis
trict in the city.
"A two-hour parking limit should be
applied in the district Immediately
surrounding the present congested dis
trict.
In the near future, parking should
be prohibited in the Ellipse and on
the Mall
Within a period of two years all
night parking at any place in the city
should be prohibited.
ITO eliminate a large volume of all
day parkers who begin their practice
between 8 and $50 am, it is recon-
mended that parking be prohibited
during those hours in the more con-
gested part of the business area as
described.
Twelve, and preferably Is, police
officers should be assigned to full-time
parking duty in the center district"
The report is made as the result Of
the joint efforts of business, civic and
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