Evening star., 1932-05-18
YEARS PROGRAM
TO Be DISCUSSED
EXPLAINING BOARD
Development Projects Also
Will Come Up atMeeting
Starting Tomorrow.
REPORT WILL BE MADE
ON GAS TANK PROBLEM
Revisions in Thoroughfare Plan
and Buzzard Point Proposal
Are Other Subjects.

The mapping cut of the program for
the next fiscal years work, discussion OF
future development of the city and a
tour to historic nearby Virginia are
planned by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. which in
augurates a three-day meeting tomor-
row.
Appointment of Henry " Hubbard
as a member of the commission will be
officially announced and Mr.. Hubbard
introduced to his new colleagues. His
predecessor on the commission. Fred
erick Law Olmsted, Brookline, Mass,
landscape architect, is expected to be
present Thursday
The question of the encroachment on
public space by private interests will be
brought TO the commissions attention
by its chairman, Frederic A. Delano.
The commission has previously vigor-
ously opposed the use of public space
by such things as shop windows, bay
windows and sidewalk vaults, and Mr..
Delano will suggest that the commission
take definite action.
Will Report on Gas Tank.
A report on the gas tank problem
and recent hearings on this subject
before the Public Utilities Commission
will be submitted by John Nolen, city
planner.
Numerous revisions in the thorough
fare plan, to make it accord with high
way changes, will be taken up. These
are mostly projects altered from routes
under study to routes adopted.
Mr.. Nolen will present progress re-
port on street names and prevention OF
overlapping. Illustrative Of this prob
lem is the piece of Cathedral avenue
at Conduit road and another section OF
the highway elsewhere. The question
is if these unrelated streets should have
new names.
Charles w. Eliot. I'd, director of plan
ming, will report on the proposed indus
trial development of Buzzards Point, be-
tween the Navy Yard and the Army
War College, and the projected plant
of the Potomac Electric Power Co.
there.
Maryland Projects to Come Up.
Tomorrow afternoon will be devoted
to a discussion Of projects in Maryland,
with Irving C. Root, engineer of the
Maryland National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, expected to tell
about future developments on park
projects, in which the Federal Govern
ment is cooperating with funds. H.
Tudor MorseIl. land purchasing ot1cer
of the commission, will report on past
and prospective dealings in his depart
ment.
Harvey w. Corbett and the Chicago
firm of Holabird & Root will lay be-
fore the commission projected plans
for the Northwest building area, In
which the new War Department Is ex-
pected to be located, between Seven
teenth street and Constitution avenue.
Flood control in relation to the de-
sign for the Washington Monument
grounds will be discussed. Future plans
for the former Analostan Island, to be
termed Roosevelt Island, under legis-
lation just passed by Congress, will be
debated.
Program to Be Offered.
Lieut.. Col. U s. Grant. Sd, director
of Public Buildings and Public Parks,
and the commissions executive officer,
will present plans for the Mall road.
A tentative program for the next
fiscal years work, seeking the commits
sion's instruction to its stall, Will be
offered by Mr.. Eliot.
Weather permitting, the commission
Friday afternoon will take a trip to
Mount Vernon and over the new high
way to Woodlawn, Va, under guidance
of officials of the Virginia State High
way Commission. En- route, they will
look at George Washington's mill,
which the Virginia State Conservation
Commission is restoring. The commits
sion will GO to Belvoir, the old Fairfax
mansion, and to Gunston Hall, just
presented to the State of Virginia by
Louis Hertle Saturday morning will
be devoted to a discussion of legiSla-
ton.