Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03
Special Meeting
Is Called on
.zoning Changes
Georgetown Protests
Against Proposed
Apartments Heard

A special meeting of the zoning
Commission has been called for next
Thursday at 2 pm. to consider a
series of amendments to the zon-
ing regulations which were crowded
out of yesterdays public hearing,
due to extended debate over numer-
Gus specific proposals for changes
in property classifications.
Yesterdays session was high
lighted by flood of protests in per-
son and by letter from prominent
Georgetown residents against the
petition from Alexander Kirk, charge
at the American Embassy in Ber-
lin, for permission to erect a S2,000,-
900 five-story apartment house on
his Georgetown property at Wis
consin avenue, r street, Reservoir
road and Thirty-fourth street.
The proposed amendments, in
which interest was expressed by nu-
merous group or business spokeS-
men attending yesterdays session,
deal primarily with move to clarity
and strengthen the definition of
STORY" and cellar" in the regula-
lions and would prescribe that the
permitted height of a building shall
be gagged by foot measure rather
than the number of stories" which
is an alternative test under present
rules. Several contests over proper
Interpretation of such rules have
arisen recently between builders ar
Building Inspector John w. Och
mann.
To Weigh Monastery Question.
Also. the commission will consider
amendments under which lodging or
boarding houses or mult1-famliT
dwellings or rest home, or converts,
monasteries or houses of religious
study would be permitted in re-
stricted residential areas provided
it was found the neighbors would
not be affected adversely.
In the Kirk property case, In ad-
dition to witnesses, opposition came
by letters from about so persons.
including Mrs. James Rowe, wife OF
one of the Presidents administra-
tive assistants; Thomas Murray
Wilson. American consul general at
Sydney, New South Wales; Mrs
Gerard Reilly, wife of the solicitor
of the Labor Department: David
Finley, director of the Mellon Art
Gallery; John Walker, curator of
the National Gallery of Art: Fulton
Lewis; F. L. Belin, former American
Ambassador to Poland; Mrs. Rich
ard Oulahan, director of the Wash
ington Town Hall: Helen Woods,
niece of j. P. Morgan; Rear Admiral
H. L. Brinser. U. S. N: Comdr.
Homer C. Wick, U. S. NJ. retired,
and A. o. Stanley. chairman of the
Joint International Commission.
Boss Speaks for Preservation.
Harry K. Boss, realtor and de-
veloper, who represented Mr.. VIII
son, declared Georgetown was
unique and that its residents wanted
its historic beauty preserved. The
millions spent in restoration work
at Williamsburg, Va, he said,
showed that people are interested
in old places.
The protests of the individual
Georgetown property owners were
supported by spokesman from the
Progressive Citizens Association Of
Georgetown and the Georgetown
Citizens Association.
Others who either appeared Al
the hearing to protest or sent in
letters of objection included John
Ihlder, director of the Alley Dwell
ing Authority; John Blake Gordon.
Gale Mclean, Mrs. Hugh Cumming
jr.; Genevieve WimSatt, Nathan Fox,
Drew Pearson, Mrs. Alice McHardy
Dye, F. Cuniberti. Daniel j. Cleary
jr.; William D. Lloyd, Mrs. Mary
B. Hayes, Grace o. Lowry, Frank
P. Leetch, William H. Quealey, Aus
tin E. Thompson. Mrs. Margaret
Renshaw. Reeve Hoover, Daniel c.
Long, Frank R Cohill. Elizabeth
Dean and Mrs. Samuel Reber.
The commission deferred action
of the Kirk and all other case
heard during the session to latei
executive meeting of the body.
Oppose Filling Station Plans.
Dean Noble C. Powell of Wash
ington Cathedral and the Rev. DR..
Charles T. Warner, rector of ST.
Adams, protested a change of zon-
ing at the southeast corner of Wis
consin and Massachusetts avenue
NV. which would permit the re-
modelling of a filling station.
Approval of an increase in the
height limit on property at Nine
teenth and I streets NV. to permit
the erection of two additional stories
on the Columbia Medical Building
so that with connecting corridors
the extra space could be used as
an annex to Doctors Hospital, was
urged by DR.. Charles Stanley White,
president of the ownership corpora
ton, and DR.. Oscar B. Hunter, sec.
rotary of Doctors Hospital.
Protest against establishment of
parking lot at the triangle bounded
by Evarts street, Saratoga and Mon.
tana avenues NE, for use of patrons
of the new Village Theater, soon to
be opened, was made by Samuel
Dads and other Brentwood Park
residents. Mr. Davis said that when
he purchased his home he was told
the triangle was to be dedicated for
a mark