Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
TWo-Hour Limit Extent Cut.
Rules to Be Advertised
Before Enforced.
CONTESTED SECTION
REPLACED BY ZONES
Clear Streets Ordered in Rush
Morning Hours in Small
Area Downtown.

The District Commissioners today
adopted new comprehensive set Of
parking regulations recommended last
week by Traffic Director william H.
Harland. There was ones substantial
change, made in response to numerous
objections, which resulted in the elm
nation Of a large section of the new
zone in which parking is to be re-
Stricted to two hours. Otherwise the
new regulations went through in the
khape recommended by Mr.. Harland.
The mcst important feature Of the
ew regulations, which will become
Effective 10 days after they are adver-
tised in an ofici;l form, Is the sstting
UP of three new parking zones to re-
place the present congestsd zone, which,
as such, is abolished
= First comes a small zone bounded by
New York avenue, K street, Seventh
street, Pennsylvania avenue and Fiji
tenth street In this zine parking Is
forbidden between the hours Of and
$3.50 in the morning, and is limited 10
enc hour thereafter.
Second Around First.
The second zone surrounds the first,
and within it parking Is limited to one
hour throughout the dsy, but there Is
no prohibition on parking between 8
and $3.50 O'Clock in the morning.
The boundaries of this zone follow;
Beginning at Eighteenth and l. streets,
east along L street to Sixth street
south on Sixth street to Constitution
avenue, west on Constitution avenue to
Fifteenth street north on Fifteenth
street to New York avenue, west in
front of the White House to Seven
tenth street, south on Seventeenth
street to O street, west on q street to
Eighteenth street and north on Eight
ee1lti1 street to the point of beginning.
The third zone begins at Twentieth
and N streets and continues east on n
street to fourteenth street., south on
Fourteenth street to L street, west on
L street to Eighteenth street, south on
Eighteenth street to q street, east on
@ street to Seventeenth street, north on
Seventeenth street to Pennsylvania ave-
nue., east on Pennsylvania avenue, in
front of the White House, to Fifteenth
street, south on Fifteenth street TO Con-
stitution avenue, west on Constitution
avenue to Seventeenth street. north on
Seventeenth street to F street, west on
# street to Twentieth street, and north
on Twentieth street to the point Of be-
ginning.
Protests Bring Change.
The original recommendation for the
third zone carried 1T entirely around
the second zone as far east. as Third
street and In some portions as far south
as B street southwest. This aroused
considerable protest from these who did
not wish TO be limited to two-hour park
ing IN this zore.
Among the institutions protesting
were the General Accounting ONCE,
which is housed in the old Pension
once Building, fronting en- Fifth street
south Of @ street; the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. the Smithsonian
InStitution and the Department of Ag-
riculture, all affected by the proposed
southern boundary, and the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which objected
to carrying the western boundary Of
the zone farther west than Eighteenth
street.
Representatives of all these institu-
tions were gwen hearing by the Com
missioners before the city heads took
action this morning, and the hearing
resulted in a concession to all of the
institutions except the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Taxi Stands Affected.
Other important changes in the new
group of parking regulations forbid taxi
hours at which other parking is pro-
hibited on the flow sides of certain
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