Evening star., 1932-02-14
1z0N|NGREQUESTS
|DEN|ED BY BOARD;
-FOUR ARE GRANTED
IC0mmisSi0n Refuses to ADOPT
| Measure Which Would
| Bring Hardship.
IEIGHT CHANGES IN LAW
| ON GARAGES ADOPTED
Many Protests Are Voiced Against
Proposed Undertaken Establish
ment on Wisconsin Avenue.

The Zoning Commission yesterday de-
MED II out Of 16 requests for cnangep
in zoning heard at a public hearing
February 8. -Four Of the requests were
granted. Action was postponed on the
remaining change The conmiis ION de-
cided not to adopt a regulat.oa sus~
pending the strict application Of the
zoning law to individual instances
where such action would result in hard
ship. A series of eight changes in the
regulations, designed TO allow the con-
cial zones without the necessity of OBJ
taining consents from adjoining prop
erty owners, and to allow the use OF
alley lots in residential zones for stor-
ing automobiles was adopted
The two requests for changes In IN
dividual zoning that stirred up the Bit
terest opposition were both denied. One
was a proposal to change to second
commercial the residential and first
commercial property on the east side
of Wisconsin avenue between Western
avenue and Jenifer street, to allow the
construction of an undertaking estab-
Hshment. Sixteen civic associations and
many neighbors protested against this,
principally on the ground that Wiscon-
sin avenue is one of the portals to
Washington from the north and west,
and the impression produced on Wis
itor by passing a funeral parlor at the
entrance to the Capital would be det-
rirnent to the city.
The other was a proposal for
change in zoning to allow the Wads-
worth property at Dupont circle, bound
ed by Eighteenth street, Massachusetts,
l. k@rr
an 11-stor~ apartment house. This
was fought as the entering wedge OF
commercial zoning on upper Massa-
chusetts avenue. The petitioners claim
ed that the property as residence.
was a white elephant, unusable and
unstable, although heavily taxed.
Zoning Changes Allowed.
The following changes in zoning were
allowed:
Change from residential 60-foot B
area to first commercial 60-foot c area
the southwest corner of Fifth street and
Florida avenue northeast.
Change from first commercial 60-foot
G area to residential 40-foot B area four
lots on the east side of West Virginia
avenue between Mount Olivet road and
Raum street northeast
Change from residential 40-foot D
area to residential 60-foot C area the
property at 305 T street northeast.
Change from first commercial 90-foot
D area to second commercial 90-foot
D area lot on the north side of Ben
ming road between Minnesota avenue
and Kenilworth street northeas;.
The following changes in zoning were
refused:
Change from residential B to resi-
dental G area vacant lot at the
southeast corner of Twenty-second and
Q streets.
Change from residential B to area
two lots on the east side of New Hamp-
shire avenue between R and S streets.
Commissioners U. S. Grant Sd, and
Luther H. Reichelderfer disqualified
themselves from consideration of this
request because of interest, and took no
part in its decision.
Change from first commercial 10
foot D area to residential 9o-fo.st .S area
the property at 1926 Massachusetts,
avenue.
Change from residential sO-foot c
area to first commercial ll0-foot D
area the square bounded by Eighteenth
and P streets and Massachusetts, ave-
nue. (the Wadsworth property.
Other Changes.
SA403l6C 4AOuA 4CcAoChuio4 W al
commercial the southeast corner of
Twelfth and w streets
Change from first to second COM
mercial four lots on the north side
of H street between Third and Fourth
streets northeast.
Change from residential 60-foot to
first commercial 90-foot the property
at 300 D street northeast.
Change from residential to first
commercial the property at 109
Eleventh street southeast
Change from residential 40-foot A
restricted and first commercial 6O-foot
c areas to second commercial 60-foot,
lot 803 in square 1861, east side Of Wis
consin avenue between Western avenue
and Jenifer street.
Change from residential A restricted
to first commercial c area the property
at 1926 Monroe street northeast.
Change from residential A area to
first commercial C area four lots on the
west side of Forty-ninth street between
Dean avenue and Hayes street north
east.
The commission postponed action on
request for change from residential
A restricted and residential A areas to
residential B area the frontage on the
north side of Sheridan street between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.