Evening star., 1934-12-19
AIRPORT PROBLEM
AMONG SEVERAL
UP TO PLANNERS
Meeting Friday to Consider
Unifying Recreations and
Utility Bridge.
81, 100000 GRAvELLY
PROJECT CONCERNED
Final Ruling Of Commission on
Independence Avenue Span
Desired by Officials.

Development OF the GraVelly Point
airport, the present status of the re-
port on unifying the Districts null
tiple recreationsl facilities and a pro-
jected utility bridge over Independ-
ence avenue to link two units Of the
Department of Agriculture, will be
foremost among topics to be con-
sidered by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, which be-
gins a two-day session on Friday.
The commission will be informed a
request for $2,300,000 in P. w. A.
funds for construction Of the Gravelly
Point airport is on its way to Admin
istrator Ickes.
A discussion over whether founda-
tions for a utility bridge should be
permitted in Independence avenue, to
unite the Administration Building of
the Department of Agriculture and
the Extensible Building, Just to the
south. will be entered into jointly by
the Finance Commission and Planning
Commission the first thing Friday
morning.
Final Decision Desired.
Secretaries Morgenthau and Wal
lace want a final decision on the
bridge problem. The Treasury pro-
poses to discuss plans for building q
three-arch bridge with two supports
in Independence avenue, considered
by some as traffic hazards. Orig
inally the planning commission had
recommended single span. Treas
ury Department officials on Friday
viii tell the two commissions that the
cost involved in a single arch is
such as to preclude its construction
The status of the recreation report
submitted recently by L. H. Weir OF
the National Recreation Association
in which he submitted four proposed
plans to unity recreational facilities
here, will be reported upon by
Thomas S. Settle, planning commits
sion secretary.
Pollution of Rock Creek will be an
other topic. The commission has an
agreement with the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, entered
into in 1881. which states that when
the pollution of any stream affects
park lands or becomes q menace to
health, the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission agreed to begin
construction of the necessary reme-
dies within two years from the time
the polluted condition was established.
This time Is to be determined by q
board representative of the National
Planning Commission, the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission. after due
investigation.
Water Front Report.
John Nolen, jr., director of planning
of the national group, will lay before
his body the draft of a report to the
United States Engineer Office regard
ing river and water front improvement
Of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers
This problem Is under study by the
chief of Army engineers at the re-
quest of the House Rivers and Harbors
Committee.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission will consider a
proposal to employ jobless men, as a
relief project, in throwing up a levee
as a flood-control measure for the
National Capital in the line of Inde-
pendence avenue extended in West
Potomac Park, which would become q
permanent feature of the Mall devel-
opment This would 60 from the Lin
coin Memorial to the Washington
Monument. The United States En-
gineer Office has brought this to the
commissions notice.
Mr.. Settle will report to the commits
sion on the status of the District OF
Columbia Virginia Boundary Commits
sion hearing and the reports he made
to it.
A preliminary analysis of the trans
portation survey, recently conducted
here, will be laid before the commits
sion by Charles M. Herrick. city plan
ner. His final report will be made in
January.
G Street widening.
At the request of the Co-ordinating
Committee the commission will con-
slider the widening of G street, north
of the old Patent Office Building, be-
tween Seventh and Ninth streets.
This in no way affects the building,
officials declared today, asserting it Is
quite different problem from the
widening Of F street, on the south side
It does require adjustment Of the fence
line along G street at the two corners
At the present time G street be-
tween Seventh and Ninth streets Is a
two-way thoroughfare, but there is
only one lane south of the car tracks.
Now, G street is 471z feet wide. The
new plan would make it SIS feet, an in
crease Of 7h feet, with materially i'm
proved traffic conditions and a cost
considered nominal, compared with
the benefits. Unofficial estimates
placed the cost in the vicinity OF
$4,000.
The present temporary improve
ments at Sixteenth street and the Dis
trict line, which was named by Con-
gress the Montgomery. Blair Portal,
will be, given the commissions con-
sideration. Adjustment Of the road To-
cation and 'landscaping of park areas
Is desired. The approved plan calls
for q central island designed to i'm
prove traffic conditions.
Ways and means for expediting
service to the Alley Dwelling Author
ity, viii be considered by the commits
sion at the request of the officials, who
are actively engaged in wiping out
Washington's blighted areas.
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