Evening star., 1940-02-15
Shepherd Park
Land Purchase
kComp|eted
Planning Body
Also Acquires Four
Other Tructs


Planning Commission today an
nounced completion OF land acquisi-
ton for the Shepherd Parkway in
the southeast corner of the District,
near Bald Eagle Hill.
Through Norman G. Brown, its
appraiser and associate land pur-
chasing officer, the commission said
that the final is acres of the 279-
acre parkway have been bought. The
parkway eventually is to serve as
connecting link between Fort Drive,
Anacostia Parkway and the pro-
posed South Capitol Street Bridge
and the Southern Maryland extern
sion of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway to Fort WASH
ington.
Mr.. Brown also announced that
a condemnation award has been
made to clear titles on two lots
needed to complete Second High
Reservoir Playground at Forty-flfth
and Warren streets NV. The play
ground has not been developed.
Minor acquisitions in three other
projects were announced. They are
Northeast Recreation Center at
Forty ninth and Washington streets,
Watts Branch Parkway, near the
northeast corner of the District,
and part of the tract of land on
which the proposed sports center is
to be placed at the end of East
Capitol street.
Will Freeze" Development.
The Northeast Recreation Center
land acquisition is now about 60 per
cent complete, Mr. Brown said.
Land added to the sports CEN
ter consisted of some unde-
veloped lots on the site proposed
in revised plans for the stadium
Three similar lots are about to be
condemned on the stadium site, MI.
Brown said, thereby freezing real
estate development in the tract until
such time as Congress appropriates
money for the stadium.
Routine approval was given by the
commission of replatting plans of
the District Alley Dwelling Author
tty for its two projects on Ridge road
Sc. and on Navy place Sc. Ac-
oording to law, such plans must be
approved by the Planning Commits
sion and the District Commissioners
before work can proceed.
This afternoon the commissions
staff was to ask that the planning
body give the go signal for land
acquisitions for the first unit Of the
George Washington Memorial park
way in Maryland between the Dis
trict line and Great Falls. The COM
mission now has 100000 available
for purchase of land in this area.
Appraisals now are virtually COM
plete. Another matter to be taken
up this afternoon is the future de-
velopment of the south approaches
of Arlington Memorial and Highway
Bridges. Several zoning requests
In regard to property along WASH
tngton street in Alexandria also were
to be considered
Service Club Proposed.
Tentative plans for a new Army
Navy service club Somewhere in
the vicinity of the old Naval Hospi-
taf also were to be considered.
The 10 to Is year program for the
future development of Washington,
announced last week at dinner of
the Committee of 100 on the Fed
eral City for the Planning Commits
sion, is to be formally presented to
the commission tomorrow.
Thomas S. Settle, commission Sec
retary, is to make progress report
of pending legislation affecting the
commissions work. John Nolen, jr.,
the commissions director of plan
ming, is to report on a recent meet
ing of the State Planning Boards of
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia,
North Carolina and the District of
Columbia with Federal and State
administrative agencies at which
regional airport and recreational
plans and proposals for a coastal
highway were discussed.