Evening star., 1936-07-18
PARKWAY SURVEY
NEAR GREAT FALLS
IS GIVEN APPROVAL
Carderock Prospectus to Be
Speeded, Also Site at
Battery Cove.
URGE SCHOOL OPENING
AT 9:15 INSTEAD OF 9
Planning Commission Favors
Study Of zoning and Plating
Regulations in District.

Surveying of the 12o-acre Carderock
property near Great Falls and steps
looking toward transfer to the Ma
tional Park Service of IS acres at Bat
tery Cove. near Alexandria, Va, both
as links in the Potomac River Parkway
from Mount Vernon to Great Falls,
we're approved by the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission
late yesterday in the closing session
of a two-day meeting.
Other important actions of the
commission included:
A recommendation that the District
public schools open at 9:15 am. in
stead of 8 am. to relieve traffic
hazards.
Approving a study of the District
coming, plating and subdivision regu-
lations with a view to extensive modi-
fications.
A recommendation that school site
purchases be tied in with the park
and playground plan and that further
studies be made of combined school,
playground and recreational centers
such as that at Takoma.
Approval of plans for number Of
Fairgrounds and recreational areas
with a view to their possible develop
ment with w. P. A. funds.
Approval Of two new Alley Dwelling
Authority projects.
Naming the four new Mall drive
ways after the first four Presidents,
instead of after States, as had been
proposed.
Survey To Be Speeded.
Surveying Of the Carderock estate,
which has frontage Of about mile
and a quarter along the Maryland
shore of the Potomac south of Great
Falls, will be done by National Parks
Service workers during the Summer
Laying out of picnic sites, bridle-
paths, footpaths and bathing and
boating facilities were among tenta-
tive suggestions for development of
the property.
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the
Commission, reported that he, Rep
resentative Smith Of Virginia, and
Thomas S. Settle, secretary to the
commission, had visited Secretary Of
War Dern and made formal request
that the Battery Cove property be
transferred to park authorities for de-
velopment as part of the riverside
parkway.
The 46 acres in the tract are all
"made" ground, at the extreme south
end of Alexandria, adjoining the Jones
Point lighthouse and the southern
corner stone of the District of Colum-
bia. An old Civil War fort also ad-
joins the property. Settle said that
1t was tentatively proposed to open a
rial boulevard into the Battery Cove
area.
Division On School Hours.
The School Board, it was reported,
took poll Of parents to ascertain
whether there was a preponderance
of sentiment in favor of $3.50 to $3.50
opening or continuation of the present
8 am. time. There was sharp divi-
sion of opinion in the answers, 1t was
reported.
There may be some administrative
reason why the schools should not
open at 9:15," Settle explained THAT,
however. is out of our jurisdiction.
The Commission is charged, among
other things, with making traffic stud
les for the District and our recon-
mendation for the change in the
school hours was made purely on the
basis of its favorable effect on traffic
and safety"
The 9:15 recommendation, it was
reported, was made on motion Of
Senator King of Utah, chairman of
the Senate District Committee
John Nolen, director of planning of
the commission, submitted a supple
mental report on the Milwaukee traf-
flc survey, which led to a request
yesterday afternoon by Senator King
that further studies be made of the
local traffic problem and of the whole
local zoning, planning and subdivision
situation. No specific proposal was
outlined but the commission voted to
call for the return to Washington of
Alfred Bettman of Cincinnati, zoning
expert who has worked on the local
situation, for a Today period later
in the Summer. King asked that
plans be worked up for any necessary
legislation.
Nathan Wyeth, municipal architect,
submitted landscaping plans for the
new Judiciary Square project. Con-
struction of new Police Court Build
ing is about to start there.
No details of the two alley dwelling
projects approved yesterday were made
public, Settle explaining that parts
of the properties involved still are in
process of acquisition.
Decision to recommend naming of
the new Mall drives for the first four
Presidents was by unanimous vote of
the commission, which will recon-
mend the names to Secretary of In
terror Ickes, head of the National
Park Service, which has jurisdiction
over the Mall The four drives, in
order, from Constitution avenue south
to Independence avenue, would be
named Madison drive, Washington
drive, Adams drive and Jefferson drive
The commission voted to skip an
August meeting and will hold its next
session here September "a, Is and 26.