Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-09-17
COMMISSIONERS
PUBLIC BUILDING
PLANNING REPORT
Roosevelt Committees Rec
concentrations Are Not
DivuIged.
STUDY OF ROCK CREEK
CROSSING is ORDERED
Plan for Highway North of Co.
lumbia Island Is Given
Approval.

A report of the work of Presiden
Roosevelt's Public Buildings Commit.
tee, which is mapping a program fol
10 years ahead, was laid before tn,
National Capital Park and Plannin,
Commission today, but its content.
were not divulged.
The report was made by the com.
missions chairman, Frederic A
Delano, and its director of planning
John Nolen, IT,, and the commission
was informed that Congress had made
little money available for construction
here, so there will be ample time tc
plan ahead. The only funds authorized
were $2.S25.000 to complete the annex
TO the Bureau Of Engraving and Print.
ing.
me commission instructed its staff
% work for final passage of the meas
ure designed to enlarge the Keyes-
Elliott lot, marking out the areas
wnerc the Federal Government may
purchase property for public building
This will round out the so-called
Northwest Rectangle, south OF E street
and west of Seventeenth street. The
measure already has passed the Senate
and has been pending in the House
Public Buildings and Grounds Com
mittee.
Studies Explained.
=. w. Bristol, chief architect of the
1reasury's Procurement Division. ap-
peared before the commission today
and explained studies for expansion of
the New National Museum of the
smithsonian Instltution. Original
plans call for placing the structure So
1eet west Of Ninth street, but under
the compromise plans submitted TODAY.
the tetback would be 100 feet.
THIS was prepared with view to
meeting demands of the Smithsonian
institution for adequate space and at
the same time, insure balanced treat
ment With the Mellon Art Gallery.
TIA planners desire that the area in
tie Mall between Seventh and Ninth
streets, opposite the Archives Building,
= maintsir1ed as m 6pen plaza,
saeoaen and william r. Partridge.
consulting architect Of the commission.
presented q plan for the commissioner
participation at the New York and
San Francisco world fairs.
The commission staff were instructed
to cooperate with the District Com
mhsioners In working out = study for
the proposed high-level CROSSINGS over
Rock Greek Valley, to provide trafic
connection between Sixteenth street
and Connecticut avenue, north OF
Klingle road.
Commission approval was given
plans for a new highway north of Co.
; lunbia Island, which will afford traffic
connection with the Lee Boulevard in
\ Virginia.
At yesterdays session rigid regula-
ton Of existing slaughter houses and
the banning of similar establishments
IN the District in the future was set al
, one Of the commissions chief aims
The group voted to continue its ef-
forts to write into the statute books
laws with teeth in them for effectively
curbing slaughter houses in the Cap.
ital.
As companion movement. it agreed
to cooperate fully with the District
Commissioners and the Zoning Com.
mission in securing the enactment ir
the new session of Congress of an up.
to-date law relating to coming here
The draft of the legislation is nov
practically in final shape.
Chairman King of the Senate Dis.
~trict Committee who is an ex-officit
member Of the commission, has an.
nounced that he will sponsor the new
sonirlg measure in the Senate, and /
! will likewise be introduced In tn
House, when Congress reconvenes.
The commission instructed its stat
to make new study of the airpor
situation here, especially relating t.
Gravelly Point and development O
Camp Springs, Md, or some othe
high-level project-either independ
entity or In cooperation with othe
Government agencies.
Tentative plans for the use of tn
old tuberculosis Hospital site wer
laid before the commission. The sit
must be preserved for school and rec
reational purposes, the commission
contends.
A location more central to tn
school population in the section nea
the National Arboretum is favored b
the commission, in ordering its stat
TO see If land exchange can b
worked out. The District Commits
sioners have arranged land for a me-
school In the section. Street closing
and land transfers are involved i
The problem and the District govern
ment. the Planning Commission an
the National Arboretum are concerne
m 1t. nasmuch as land purchase
are involved, the planners decline
TO 60 into details regarding location
Nolen submitted a preliminary repo
on the problem
Seek Watts Branch Park.
The commission voted to procef
with the acquisition of land in ii
Watts Branch area so that SIMS
section may be developed as park
demonstrate the open valley" trea
ment, preserving the natural featur
and eliminating the necessity +
storm sewer construction. II the den
onstration area proves satisfacto
the commission will acquire the iai
% that the whole valley might
similarly treated.
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Youth Confesses Burglary.