Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
Commission Also Decides
Change in Zoning Law Un-
wise at This Time.
OPPOSE GREATER HEIGHT
TO APARTMENT HOUSES
Chief of Engineers and Arlington
Officials Will Be Petitioned
in Controversy.

Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of
Army Engineers. will be asked by the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission to withhold the issuance of
a permit for the construction of a
wharf of the Sun Oil Co. of Phila-
delphia just northwesterly of the Key
Bridge at Rosslyn, Va, which has
caused an appreciate amount of con-
troversy on both sides of the Potomac
River. In making known this decision
today, the commission also made pub
lie during the second days session of
it's January meeting that it is recon-
mending to the coming commission that
a change in the present coming law at
this time would be unwise and that a
proposed board of appeals or ADJUST
ments is considered unnecessary.
BY taking this action the commission
likewise went on record against any
alteration in the height in the con-
struction of apartment houses in the
city by proposed system of setbacks as
urged by builders here.
Explains Commissions Views.
Capt E. N. Chisolm, jr., the commits
sion's engineer, explained today that the
commission recommended that the pro-
posed change in the coming regulations
be disapproved. He said that the COM
mission appreciates the greater attrac-
tiveness and some of the advantages
that would be given by the design sub
mitted, with the requirement for change,
but the commission felt that it would
entail unsound coming and turn to be
a detriment of the possibility of apart
ment house development in the old
sections of the city. The commission
also opposed any such change with
additional cubage providing for an in
crease in cubic feet content
With relation to the Sun Oil Co..
application for wharf, Capt Chisolm
said the commission will not only re-
quest the chief of Army Engineers to
withhold the issuance of a permit for
the proposed wharf development at
Rosslyn, Va, but will also advise the
Arlington County, Va, commission
ers as to the recommendation of issu-
ance of a permit, and the commission
will also ask the county commissioners
to consider rezoning the area affected.
The area in question is now zoned as
commercial, and the commission desires
it to be zoned back to residential.
Receive SLduIum fIdnSs
George Washington University and
the American Institute of Archi-
tects submitted proposed plan in
perspective of the proposed Roosevelt
Memorial Stadium. The commission
was very much interested in this pro-
gram, Capt. Chisolm said. and will
thank the George Washington Univer-
sity authorities and those of the Amer
lean Institute of Architects for submit
ting the study.
Capt Chisolm laid before the commits
sion literature explaining a proposed
national church and shrine to be
located on some high point in Virginia
overlooking the National Capital. This
edifice is planned as an undenomina-
tional undertaking. The commission
took the subject under advisement.
B street can be more advantageously
widened in the vicinity of the Capitol
Grounds on the south side, the COM
mission decided as this course would
mean that fewer trees will be dis
turbed
A progress report on all Sites for
schools, Fairgrounds and recreation
centers was submitted to the commits
sion, but no further information on
them was made public at this time.
The commissions staff submitted a
preliminary report on the regional
drainage and sewerage system in the
metropolitan area, embracing not only
the District of Columbia but the adjoin-
ing sections of Maryland and Virginia.