Evening star., 1937-02-13
zON|NG FOR STORE
IN COLUMBIA ROAD
APARTMENTDEN|ED
Change in Status of Place
at 1880 Refused on
Neighborhood Complaint.
HENDERSON CASTLE AREA
DECISION DUE LATER
Verdicts Rendered in Majority OF
Cases Presented at Hearing
on February 3.

piscarding arguments made by
Representative Sol Bloom OF New
York and by Charles A. Douglas,
Washington attorney, the DiStrict
zoning Commission has refused a
change in zoning for property at
1880 Columbia road to permit stores
in proposed apartment for the site
Bloom, who now rents the private
dwelling there from Douglas, declared
at last weeks public hearing on re-
quested zoning changes that the in
tersection of Columbia road and
Eighteenth street was a nolsler spot
than any on Broadway.
He urged the commission to grant
Douglas request for first CONNER
cial classification, saying he would
not renew his lease because OF the
noise from the street cars. He sug-
gested to reporters that a sound
proof" apartment could be erected,
and he favored granting Of permis-
sion for stores in the building.
The commission declined to change
the zoning of the place, now residential
e0-foot c area, which permits an
apartment but no stores. The change
was protested by owners of other
apartments in the section, whose
buildings do not have stores.
More Decisions Due.
The commission, meeting late yes
terday, acted on the majority of the
As cases considered at the February
3 hearing. The remainder are sched-
uled for decision at another execu-
tive meeting Monday. At yesterdays
session the body did not consider de-
cision on proposed changes in regu-
lations debated this week at another
hearing, at which there was a con-
test over the size of apartments which
may be erected on upper Sixteenth
street in the neighborhood of the
Henderson Castle" north Of Florida
avenue
Property to the east of the site Of
the proposed new municipal center
was changed by the commission from
second to first commercial use to bar
so-called undesirable types of indus
try from the area. The change,
sponsored by the commission. affects
the area bounded by Third street,
Constitution, New Jersey and Louisi-
ana avenues and D street.
Construction of fats or apartments
on a property back of Connecticut
avenue between Fessenden street and
Nebraska avenue was barred by the
commission in rejecting a request by
the Chevy Chase Land Co., but it
changed the zoning from residential
"a" restricted to residential "A" semi
restricted on lots on Nebraska avenue
there for a depth of 100 feet. This
would permit erection of "two-in-one"
houses.
Stores Permitted.
Property at 3430-3432 Connecticut
avenue, north of the Uptown Theater,
was changed to first commercial to
permit erection of stores. The COM
missin denied similar change for
lots on the opposite side of the street,
but granted a variance to permit
their use for one year as a parking
lot
Granting the pleas of numerous
owners in the Hillcrest area,
the commission changed to residential
IA" restricted properties in the area
bounded by Texas and Pennsylvania
avenues, Thirty-eighth street, Mas
sachusetts avenue and Anacostia road
and by a line 100 feet west of the
west building line of Thirtieth street,
all southeast. This bars the erec-
ton of either flats or apartments.
Action on the change as to parcels
206/21 and 206/17, however, was de-
ferred to the Monday session. The
same zoning was ordered for prop
erty bounded by Thirty-second street,
Alabama avenue, by line 100 feet
west Of the west building line Of Thir-
tieth street and by Naylor road, all
southeast.
Other Changes Authorized.
Other changes ordered by the COM
mission follow:
Property on the northwest corner
IF Fourteenth and r streets, owned
oy the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co., from 60 to 80 feet height
Tor the commercial usage.
Property on west side of Wisconsin
avenue between Van Ness and Upton
streets, part of area from unzoned
and residential to first commercial
and part from first commercial to
"A" restricted.
Property bounded by Belt and Mill
tary roads, Wisconsin and Western
avenues, from residential "A" area to
first commercial &C" area. This
change was ordered because Of aban-
donment of plans for development of
= circle at the area, 1t was said.
Property at 3612 Georgia avenue,
changed from residential 40-foot "B"
area to first commercial 60-foot &C"
area.
Property on the westerly side Of
Brentood road between T street and
Harmony Cemetery northeast, change
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area to residential 40-foot "B" area,
and parts of the lots to industrial
90-foot ID" area.
Property on the south side of Flor
da avenue between Fourth and Fifth
streets northeast, changed from resi-
Dental 60-foot "B" area to first COM
nercial 60-foot &c" area.
Property on northeast corner Of
Florida and Trinidad avenues north
East, change from residential to first
60-foot ID" area, but the
change will not be affected until plans
'or store developments show there will
,e no entrances on Trinidad avenue.
Property at northeast corner Of
Branch and Pennsylvania avenues
southeast, change from residential to
irst commercial &C" area.
Property on west side of Six-and-a-
1alf street between D and e streets
change from residential
B" area to first commercial 60-foot
C" area.
The commission denied change
rom residential to first commercial