Evening star., 1940-10-17
P| |anners Ready
To Link Two
Golf Courses
Land Also Is Acquired
To Develop Area Near
KeniIworth Lily Ponds

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission today an
nounced it had completed acquisi-
ton Of virtually all property needed
to connect the Anacostia Park and
Fort Dupont Park golf courses to
form one 18-hole course.
The commissions associate land
purchasing officer and appraiser,
Norman c. Brown, said it will be
necessary to condemn a few small
lots where titles are clouded.
The commission also announced
acquisition of lots in the vicinity
of the Kenilworth (Shaw) lily ponds
for the proper development of streets
and roads in this area; that it would
condemn the entire amount of land
needed for Pope Branch parkway in
Southeast Washington, and that 1t
had acquired some property to add
to Northeast Recreation Center,
Forty-ninth and Washington streets
NE, and a small section of land
for the Fort drive near BladenS-
burg road and Eastern avenue NE.
Recreation Center Planned.
At present C. C. C. enrollees are
bringing to completion the Fort
Dupont golf course. When it is COM
pleted the nine holes of the Ana
costa golf course, which lie south
OF Pennsylvania avenue, will be
abandoned to make room for a rec
reation center and the northern
nine holes of the Anacostia course
combined with those in Dupont.
Mr.. Brown said the commission
had decided to condemn property
for the Pope Branch project be-
cause prices demanded by private
owners were too high.
Plans for two wartime Govern
ment buildings were also on the
program to be considered by the
commission today.
The supplemental appropriation
act, recently passed by Congress,
calls for construction of two general
purpose Government office buildings
of the Munitions Building
type. One is to be constructed out
side the District, probably in Ar
lington County. The other probably
will be built in the District.
Originally only one such building,
to be in Virginia, was called for.
The other structure was to be a
monumental type building and was
to have been placed on Lincoln
Square in East Washington.
Plans to Be Offered Today.
Urgency OF national defense.
housing, however, caused Congress
to substitute for the latter a cheaper
and more quickly completed type OF
structure. w. E. Reynolds OF the
Public Buildings Administration
was to present plans for the two
today along with drawings for a
west central heating plant, an ad-
ditional wing for the Navy Depart
ment and a new General Accounting
Office Building to be placed on the
block north of the old Pension
Office.
The commission today also was
to hear from District Recreation
Director Lewis R. Barrett, Planning
Commission Secretary Thomas S.
Settle and Commission Landscape
Architect Thomas C. Jeffers on the
experience of other cities with
Board of Education-sponsored recre-
alton. Subject matter for the dis
cusSion was obtained at the recent
annual convention of the National
Recreation Congress in Cleveland.
This afternoon the planners were
30 consider working drawings for the
Scott Circle underpass and later
were to make a field trip to inspect
ell present and proposed projects OF
the District Alley Dwelling
Authority.
Zoning Changes Up Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, after hearing from Mr..
Settle the status of legislation af-
fecting the commissions projects,
the planners will discuss a series OF
sweeping zoning changes for the
District based. on the 1889 zoning
Act. The commission staff, consult
ants, the Zoning Commission and
Zoning Advisory Council have been
working on the changes for more
than a year now.
In addition the commission is to
consider plans for the Fort Drive.
q number of Alexandria zoning
change requests and additional land
purchase contracts for the George
Washington Memorial parkway in
Maryland and Virginia. 1t also was
to confer with the Arlington County
Board and county manager regard
ing proposed connections across the
Potomac River and southern ap-
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