Evening star., 1936-06-09
Three Petitions to Construct
Flats Are Rejected
by Board.
DECISIONS ANNOUNCED
ON 20 CHANGE APPEALS
Amendment Is Permitted to Allow
Fairfax Hotel to Add to Rear
Center Wing.

the District again have won battle
against proposed construction of nat:
or apartments near Upper Sixteenth
street, it was disclosed today wher
the zoning Commission announced
decisions on 20 petitions argued at last
weeks public hearings.
The commission oenied three petit
tions which would have permitted fiat:
near Sixteenth street. While none OF
the petitions affected land abuttlns
Sixteenth street. a group of citizen,
who opposed the changes declared
they would constitute an entering
wedge.
The three petitions involved land
on the north side Of Fort drive. be-
tween Fourteenth and Sixteenth
streets, parcel lying east of Luzon
avenue between Fourteenth and SiT.
teenth streets, and land on the south
side OF Fort drive between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets.
The commission approved eight
changes in zoning, rejected IA others
and defererd action on fye and grant
ed one variance from zoning classi-
fication. This last action was to per-
NIT an addition to the rear center
wing of the Fairfax EHtel Twenty.
first street and Massachusetts, avenue
raising the height there from five tc
eight stories to conform to the height
Of the remainder of the building.
Action Is Deferred.
The commission deferred action or
two Of its own proposals. One va;
to place in the "A restricted" claS.
land bounded by Massachusetts, ane
Nebraska avenues, Newark street. New
Mexico avenue and the Glover parx.
way, to protect the Glover parkway
against encroachment by fats oI
apartments Sidney F. Taliaferro, for.
mer Commissioner, who represented
Charles c. Glover, jr., protested. ,
compromise will be sought, it va:
! said.
The commission also left for fur.
/ ther study its pan to class as "A Re.
stricted" land owned by w. c. & An
Miller lying between Fordham roat
/ and the District line, below Mssss.
/ chusetts avenue, which was opposed
! by the Millers.
With slight change the commission
! adopted its proposal to place In resi-
Dental classification land along boil
sides of Conduit road between Fox.
hall road and the water distribution
1 system reservoir. in a move to elimi.
nate unnecessary" commercial zon.
| ing. The commission excepted from
the change land occupied by filling
station.
Petition Is Rejected.
Among petitions rejected was ont
to permit a parking lot on the north.
east corner Of Nineteenth and
streets, to which Secretary of Interio,
Harold Ickes was reported "fsvorably'
inclined. Nearby residents had OBJ
jected.
A petition to permit a park anC
shop" development on the northeast
corner OF Thirty-eighth and Macomt
streets, opposed by residents, was re.
jected. Right Rev. James z. Freeman
bishop Of Washington, had fled
letter opposing any more commercial
activities within the cathedral area
The commission approved the fol.
lowing changes;
From residential TO second COM
mercial, land bounded by L, K
Twenty sixth and Twenty-seventh
streets; to extend the first commercial
zone at 1900 Connecticut avenue ano
on the west side OF Connecticut ave
nue. between Yuma street and Idaho
avenue; TO extend the commercial
coming on the west side of Georgia
avenue north OF Park road, to per-
nit q parking lot near q market
from residential to first commercial
property at 1000-1002 Florida avenue
northeast, to allow a store and fats,
which had the Endorsement of Thoma;
z. Lodge and George j. Cleary. civic
workers, and a change to permit row
houses near the southeast corner OF
Twenty-fifth street and Good HopG
road southeast.
Court Decision Awaited.
Finding that Mrs. Lena Long had
not come before the commission prop
erly with petition for . change in
coming for three houses on Thirty fifth
place near Whitehaven parkway, the
body deferred action to await decision
by Police Court on a case charging
that she had Illegally converted three
residences into fats. Counsel for Mrs.
Long told the commission she had
acted in good faith. but had had bad
advice. She sought the zoning change
after obtaining delay in the court case.
The estate of P. j. Walshe won
its case to have the commission reject
Q change in coming which would have
prevented the estate from selling land
in Southeast Washington for a fat
development. The deal would hays
been contaminated before nearby resi-
dents filed petition for the change had
the District been able promptly to
provide sewer service, the commission
was told The area is bounded by
Ninth place, Savannah and Eighth
streets and Alabama avenue SOUTH
east.