Evening star., 1938-06-05
DENYAPARTMENT
HOUSE BUILDING
IN TAKOMA AREA
zoning Commission Acts on
"a Petitions for Property
Changes.
DISAPPROVE REQUEST
ON SPOT ZONING BASIS
Much Of Plea of Sheridan Circle
Residents Granted to Ban
Boarding Houses.

Permission to construct apartment
houses or fats on Highland avenue
NV. between Piney Branch road and
Eighth street, in Takoma, was denied
yesterday by the Zoning Commission
as 1t acted on "a petitions for changes
in property uses, considered at last
Wednesdays public hearing.
The Highland avenue change from
"A" restricted to "a" area had been
sought by a number of property own
ers who were represented at the hear
ing by Representative Keller, Demo
crat, of Illinois. During the debate
Mr.. Keller became engaged In a de-
bate with an opponent OF the .plan
over the appearance of the latter's
'rear yard.
The commission, it was said, dis
approved the request on the ground
that it would constitute spot" coming,
by permitting apartments or fiats in
the midst of detached dwellings.
Grant Part of Petition.
In another action, the commission
granted much of the petition by resi-
dents Of an area near Sheridan Circle
for a change from "B" restricted and
. &C" areas to "A" retricted, to pre-
vent further encroachment of the use
Of properties there as boarding and
looming houses
p This change applies to properties on
both sides OF r street between Twenty
second street and Florida avenue: both
SIDES OF Twenty-second street between
Decatur place and Massachusetts, ave-
nue., and all but four lots on the west
side of Florida avenue, between r
street and Massachusetts, avenue
Among signers of a petition urging
: the change were Secretary of the Navy
Swanson, F. Dwight Davis, former
Secretary of War; c. C. Glover, jr.,
and Coleman Jennings.
Approval Of all or part of II other
petitions was given by the commission.
as follows:
Property near Veasey and Fortieth
streets NV. was changed from residen-
tlai "A' restricted to "a" semi-re-
stricted, but the commission disap-
proved the remainder of this petition
for similar change Of adjoining
property to permit construction
community houses.
Changed 10 Residential
Property on both sides of Perry
place, near Tenth street NE. was
enanged from second commercial use
to residential 40-foot "B" area.
Subject to the possible reservation
OF right Of way for a District sewer
main, the commission approved an ex.
tension Of first commercial. 4O-foot
C. area to land on the north side
OF Good Hope road and Alabama ave-
nue.. east OF Twenty-eighth street Sc.
Change from "A" restricted area to
hrst commercial Use, parcels at the
rear OF property on the east side of
wisconsin avenue between AlbemarIe
ana Brandywine streets NV.
PROVIDING construction plans meet
the approval Of Engineer Commissioner
Dan l. Sultan, the zoning body agreed
TO change from residential to first
commercial use the property on the
northeast corner of Twenty-seventh
ana p streets NV. It ruled an en-
trance TO store may not be located
on the Twenty-seventh street side.
Commercial Use Granted.
FIRST commercial use was granted
Tor residential lots on the north side
OF Newton street, west of Rhode Island
avenue NE.
subject to approval of construction
plans by the Engineer Commissioner
the body approved a change from resi-.
oential to first commercial for the
property along Alabama avenue Sc
west OF Twenty street.
variance from the zoning of prop
|erty on the west side of Sixteenth
street, between e and RosedaIe street,
Me- was granted, to permit its use
as q parking lot. A Warner Bros
motion picture house is to be erected
on an adjoining lot.
FIRST commercial use was granted
tor the residential ID area land At
<o1 w street NE
Changes in Southeast.
The commission ordered into Affect
. number of changes proposed bv it's
own membership, affecting properties
IN the far Southeast. The plans
would change from first commerc,aI
70 residential "a" area properties on
Doth sides of Livingston road SE he
tween the District line and Valley
avenue; some of the properties ON
potn sides OF Atlantic street betweep
Nichols avenue S.W and Third street
s'E.' and part of the properties on
potn sides Of South Capitol street ana
'Nichols avenue between Atlantic and
opsal streets Sc. The commission
however, decided to leave islands of
commercial zone on either side of Iay-
lneston road at South Capitol street.
Parcels at the junction OF Nichols
avenue and South Capitol street were
changed from residential to FIRST com
mercial.
Subject to approval of building
plans. the commission approved an
extension of first commercial soninr
to property on the east side of Wis
consin avenue between Western ave-
nue. and Belt road NV.
A change from "A" restricted to "a"
semi-restricted area was granted for
property on the east side of Forty-
second street NV, between Emery
place and Fessenden street, subject to
approval of construction plans.
The commission denied nine of the
a yah