Evening star., 1936-10-15
PROPERTY
zONED TO PERMIT
APARTMENT HOUSE.
Decision on Massachusetts
Avenue Change Given
by Commission.
IL REZONING PETITIONS
APPROVED IN SESSION
IS Applications Are Rejected and
Action on Three Others
Is Deferred.

Conversion of the Mary E. Patten
property at 2122 Massachusetts ave-
nue. to apartment house purposes will
Zoning Commission late yesterday
when it acted in executive session on
% petitions heard at public hearings
last week.
The commission approved IL
changes in coming, several Of them
subject to specific conditions; denied
l3 applications and deferred action
on three others.
The Patten case has been before
the commission six times before in
recent years, the body heretofore re-
fusing to grant the requested change
from B restricted to residential C area.
Only about four-f1fths Of the property
involved in the present case was ap-
proved. The commission refused to
change the zoning of one lot so as to
retain protection for the adjoining
Larz Anderson property from apart
ment house.
Opposed by Dupont Citizens.
The petition was opposed by the
Dupont Citizens Association and a
number of residents. Several retired
admirals participated in the hearing.
The commission also finally grant,
ed another long-sought change, ap-
proving a petition by Marie Won Un-
schuld for a first commercial zoning
for property at 1916 to 1854 Colum-
bia road, but insisted on certain re-
strictions. The case had been before
the commission 10 times previously.
In granting this coming the COM
mission made it conditional upon
widening of the alley to the rear Of
two of the lots and ruled the COM
mercial zoning should apply only to
the front portion of one of the four
lots under consideration.
The following additional changes
were granted:
Property near Thirty-ninth and W
streets, from A restricted and un-
zoned area to B restricted, and prop
erty In the vicinity of Fortieth and
w streets. from A restricted to A area.
Both these were proposed by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission. The coming changes
we're approved subject to the closing
Of stretch Of wyoming avenue and
acquisition by the United States of
some land for park purposes.
Thirty-ninth Street Change.
Property on the east side of Thirty
ninth street north of Calvert street,
from residential A area to residential
B restricted area.
Rear portion of premises at 2548-
2550 Seventeenth street, from resi-
Dental C area 10 first commercial.
Property bounded by the line of
Juniper street, Eastern avenue, Kalmia
street and an alley in the rear of
commercial lots on Georgia avenue,
from residential A-restricted to resi-
dential A area.
from residential B area to first COM
mercial.
Property fronting on Ingraham,
Hamilton and North Capitol streets:
A portion of the area affected by the
petition was changed from first COM
mercial and unzoned to residential
B area and portion from residential
B area to first commercial.
Lots on the south side Of Taylor
street from Eighth to Tenth streets
and west side of Tenth street from
Taylor to Randolph streets northeast,
from second commercial to .esiden-
tial B-restricted.
Property at Third and G streets
and Indiana avenue, from residential
D area to first commercial.
Also, the commission gave Louis l..
lacquer permission to use an alley
lot in the rear of 1924 Thirteenth
street for an automobile repair shop
and approved petition by Cauther &
Slocum, Inc, to use alley lots at the
rear of 1918 North Capitol street for
q machine shop.