Evening star., 1939-10-21
Newzoningkap
To Be Prepared
AT Early Date
St. Louis Expert
To Aid in Completing
District Survey

A new zoning map of the District
Of Columbia will be prepared soon.
This fact was made evident yes
terday as the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission an
nounced that city-wide study of
present zoning and uses of every
block in Washington is 80 per cent
complete.
The survey, which has been car
ried on for six months as w. p. A.
project in which the experts of the
Commission and the District Zon-
Ing Commission have participated,
Is to be used as the basis for a COM
plete new map.
Within short time Harland
Bartholomew. zoning expert from
st. Louis, Mo. Is to be called in to
aid in polishing up final details of
the survey. Results of the survey
itself likely will be presented to the
planning commission at its Novem-
Der meeting. If approved by the
commission the report will be then
submitted to District zoning officials
for use in preparing the new map,
Thomas S. Settle. planning commits
sion secretary, said late yesterday.
Confer on Highway.
As the October meeting OF the
planning commission ended yester-
day it was announced that the COM
mission had conferred yesterday
afternoon with officials of the Public
Roads Administration regarding an
extension of the Mount Vernon Me-
mortal highway to Fort Belvoir and
on to Gunston Hall, the historic
home of George Mason, friend of
George Washington.
This roadway, for the time being,
Is expected to tie in with U. S.
Route l to Richmond at Occoquan.
However, studies have been made to
continue the highway on down the
Potomac to Wakefield, Va, the
birthplace of George Washington.
The roadway, according to present
studies. would skirt the shoreline,
taking short cuts across some of the
deeper inlets.
Mr.. Settle pointed out that the
first unit of this extension would
connect the Colonial plantation sites
Of three families prominent in the
early history of Virginia and the
United States. the Washingtons,
Fairfaxes and Masons. It was where
Fort Belvoir now is that the great
Fairfax plantation once stood.
Parkway Link Favored.
The commission yesterday ap-
proved in principle the extension of
Firth Sterling avenue Sc. through
the grounds of Boiling Field to
connect with Shepherd parkway
Immediately south of the st. Eliza
beth's Hospital grounds. This would
connect both the latter parkway and
the Anacostia parkway, making a
continuous roadway into Maryland
at the southern extremity of the
District
Earlier in the day the planning
commission and the National Com
mission of Fine Arts, also holding
its monthly meeting, approved pre-
lminary blueprints for a new build
ing for the United States Weather
Bureau. The new building is to face
M street between Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-f1fth streets NV. and
Is to be the first unit of a larger
building which eventually will sup
plant the bureaus present strvc-
ture
The Fine Arts Commission YES
terday approved the architectural
design Of the new National Guard
Armory. The design was submitted
by Municipal Architect Nathan c.
Wyeth. The arts body in addi-
ton approved the latest plan sub
mitted for the terminal and hangers
to be placed at the Washington Ma
tional Airport at Gravelly Point
The Civil Aeronautics Authority.
however, has yet to put finishing
touches to plans before they are
ready for execution.
Building In Eastern Axis
The planning commission yester-
day decided that, in view of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's interest in develop
ing East Capitol street, evidenced
after a recent conference with DR..
Charles G.. Abbot. secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, buildings
Of an institutional or semi-public
nature proposed in the future for
Washington likely will be placed on
the eastern axis of the city.
Such buildings would be museums.
libraries, galleries. headquarters of
national organizations, state build
1ngs and others.