Evening star., 1930-06-08
| |zON|NG CHANGES
| REFUSED OWNERS
!! OF 10 PROPERTIES
Proposals of M. &. Temper
ance Board and David A.
Baer Are Defeated
IL CASES APPROVED
AND ONE POSTPONED
Code Amended to Permit S-Story
Apartments in Areas Limited
to Five.

A deaf ear was turned by the zoning
Commission to pleas of owners of 10
different properties for changes In Zon-
ing clasSificationS, including the pro-
poSalS of the Methodist Board of
Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals and David A. Baer, prominent
builder of apartments, over whose
plans determined opposition was raised
by nearby home owners.
The commission, meeting yesterday
in executive session, approved the Pc
titions in IL other cases, postponed de-
cision on l and took no action in 2
others, according to a report made
late yesterday by Maj. Donald A. Davi-
son, executive offlcer of the commits
sion.
Two important amendments TO the
coming code also were adopted. The
first, urged by the local chapter Of
the American Institute of Architects
and the Operative Builders Association,
will permit the erection Of eight-story
apartments in areas where flve-story
buildings formerly were the limit, pro-
vided the taller buildings be no
greater in volume than the lower
structures.
Use Of Vacant Lots.
The other will permit the use Of
vacant lots in first commercial dis
tricts for the temporary parking OF
automobiles, provided no repair work
is done there and no gasoline, oil or
grease is sold, and provides that rs per
cent of the owners of property within
200 feet Of such area consent.
The commission took no action on the
petition of the Union Terminal Market
Co. for the reZoning for second COM
mercial use the 15-acre area north OF
Florida avenue, between Fifth and
Sixth streets northeast, in the Patter-
son tract so as to permit expansion OF
the $1,0O0,000 market project there.
This proposal was strenuously opposed
by DR.. Percival Hall, president OF the
Columbia Institution for the Deaf, be-
cause Of the proximity of some of the
buildings of Gallaudet College and the
nearness of the Patterson tract park.
The Methodist board sought to have
the height limit on the site to the east
of the Methodist Building at First street
and Maryland avenue northeast raised
from so to 30 feet to permit the con-
struction of a $400, 900 addition to the
church once and apartment structure
there. Plans called for the erection of
an addition of the same height as the
existing building, which Is something In
excess of go feet. This made it neces-
sary to ask for the next highest height
zone, 80 feet.
The petition was strongly protested
by nearby home-owners, who pointed
out that while present plans were for
q building but few feet higher than
go feet, If the zontng were changed,
three additional stories later could be
erected legally under the zoning code.
Thus the cornice line of the Capitol
and the projected Supreme Court
Building might be overshadowed, they
insisted.
Sixty Feet Limitation.
Under the existing zoning a building
may be erected up to so feet, provided
plans were approved by the Fine Arts
Commission, under provisions of the
recently enacted ShipStead law.
Mr. Baer, builder of the Alban
Towers apartments, made an unSucceSs-
full plea to have land at the southeast
corner of Thirty-eighth street and
Cathedral avenue zoned to permit the
erection there of a large apartment
house. Numerous owners Of homes in
adjacent residential zones made a de-
termined protest, claiming 1t would
injure the value of their holdings.
Plans of Waverly Taylor, Inc, to
erect English group houses on the
southeast and southwest corners of
border of the Foxall subdivision, also
were upset when the commission re-
fused the concerns petition to change
the classification of the southeast
corner from residential A-restricted to
B-reStricted area, and granted the petit
ton Of the owners of homes in the
square bounded by Forty y-fourth and P
streets and Foxall road, from B-restrict-
ed to A-restricted area.
Action on the petition for a change
from residential to first commercial
area for the property. to the rear of the
st. Paul's English Lutheran Church, on
New Hampshire avenue near u street,
was postponed.
The Commission took no action on a
troublesome old case which. in part, has
twice before been before the Commits
sion and twice before rejected. This
was petition for placing In first COM
mercial classification the residential
area on either side Of Connecticut ave-
nue. at Calvert street, just beyond the
Million n-Dollar Bridge, and the east side
of Connecticut avenue between Calvert
street and Woodley road. The former
residence of Senator Smoot of Utah is
located In the area.
Petitions Granted.
The following petitions were granted
The south side of N street be-
tween Twenty-third and Twenty fourth
streets, changed from residential to
second commercial use; the northwest
corner of Twenty-flrst and e streets,
changed from residential to first COM
mercial, 90-foot height (proVided there
be no entrance to a first commercial
establishment on Twenty-first street,;
the property of the First Colored Bap-
tiSt Church, on the west side of Sixth
street near G southwest, changed from
residential 60-foot B area to residential
60-foot G area; square bounded by First
and Seconds streets southeast, o street
and an unnamed street to the north,
changed from second commercial 90
foot to industrial, 00-foot D area.
That portion Of the square bounded
by Sixth, Seventh and c streets and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast con-
sisting only of lots 812, S13, "A, rs, rs
and n, changed from residential to first
11l9 H street northeast, changed from
residential to first commercial 60-foot
G area, and part Of property on the
south side Of Concord avenue between
Third and Fourth streets, changed from
first commercial to residential 4O-foot
B area.
The new amendment affecting the
height of apartments In 60-foot areas
will mean that where eight-Story build
ings are erected in such districts they
may go as high as 80 feet. but may oc-
cupy but 81 per cent of the lot. instead
Of rs per cent. permitted for buildings
of 60-foot height.
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