Evening star., 1939-02-17
Condemnation
Ordered on Lots
In Stadium Site
Unimproved Property,
Some Under Permits,
Swept Into Project

Swept Into Project
Condemnation of all remaining
unimproved property in the pro-
posed national stadium site at the
east end of East Capitol street was
ordered today by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
| mission.
On recommendation of its land
purchase officer, Norman c. Brown,
the commission ordered the purchase
through condemnation of the pro-
posed sites of II new row houses, for
OF which building permits already
have been issued. This action will
save at least s165 900 in the purchase
price of these properties, facing on
c street NE. east of Nineteenth
street, it was said.
The stadium site was approved by
the commission at it's January meet
ing after the original site near
Benning Road had been abandoned
because of the increase in land costs
due to building developments.
RecreatiOnal Center Included.
The commission also ordered into
condemnation all the remaining
property for a proposed colored
recreational center in the vicinity
of Forty-ninth and Washington
streets NE.
The purchase of two small sites
in the Potomac Palisades area adj
joining the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal was announced by the COM
mission.
John Nolen, jr., director of PLAN
ming of the commission, is to sub
NIT progress report on the pro-
posed Maryland bond issue to
finance acquisition and develop
ment of the portion of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway
along the Maryland shore of the
Potomac River between the District
of Columbia line and Great Falls.
This development would be carried
on jointly with the restoration OF
the newly acquired Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal.
Airport Plans to Be Submitted.
This afternoon the various gov
ernmental agencies engaged in the
development of the Washington
National Airport at Gravelly Point
will submit to the commission sew
eral alternative plans for develop
ment of the building area of the
airport and relocation of approxi-
mately l mile of the Mount Ver-
non highway.
Decision of the commission as
to the exact right-o way of the
new section of the highway and
other controlling elements is neces-
sary before detailed studies of build
ings and other features of the non-
flying portions of the airport can
be prepared. The commission will
be asked to approve general plan
of the whole area, including the re-
lationship between the airport and
the new research laboratory of the
Bureau of Public Roads, Agricul-
ture Department.
Mr.. Nolen is to report on the
status of the new planning act for
the greater National Capital area
in Maryland now pending before
the State Legislature at Annapolis.
| The local commission is co-operat-
ing with the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission and the Maryland Legis-
lature in the framing of legislation
which will strengthen the authority
of the Maryland commission and
increase the scope of its activities.
The pending bill will practically
double the area under control of
the Maryland commission in Prince
Georges and Montgomery Counties.
"Airline Highway" to Come Up.
Mr.. Nolen also will report on re-
cent developments in the plan for
construction of an airline" high
way on the right of way. of the
abandoned Washington, Baltimore
& Annapolis Railway. The COM
mission is considering details Of
tying in the proposed highway with
District highway plans and of
bringing the new highway into con-
formity with the Washington. Bal
timore & Annapolis regional de-
velopment plan.
Plans for roadway development
in the District Municipal Center
area will be submitted by the Dis
trict Highway Department. These
roads are to be built with Public
Works Administration funds as a
part of the construction of the dou-
BILE administration building now in
progress in the northern half of
the center site.
Plans for proposed P. w. A.
tuberculosis annex for Freedmen's
Hospital also will be submitted to
the commission for action.
The commission will pass upon
detailed plans for Commodore Bar
ney Circle. at the west end of the
new Pennsylvania avenue bridge.
The plans will include landscapine
studies for the western approach
to the bridge.
The revised edition of the District
recreational plan, bringing up to
date plan which has gradually
developed during a period of nearly
eight years, will be laid before the
commission for approval.