Evening star., 1941-10-26

ming director by the Maryland
Planning Commission on october Is.
He is a graduate of Columbia Uni
versity, of Queens College in New
York. City and of the Municipal
Training Institute Of New York.
Reservoir of Home Owners.
Apartment houses are erected to
take care Of new residents who
either can't afford to buy single
family homes or are employed on a
temporary basis" he explained.
Many Of these later become home
owners. Multifamily areas thus
provide a reservoir from which home
owners are drawn"
At the same time. he emphasized,
multifamily dwellings aren't nee
essarily eyesores. A garden-type
apartment project, separated from
single-family areas by buffer strips,
with provision for off-street parking
and which doesn't overtax existing
facilities in the area. would be a
credit to the community" he
continued.
Such developments, he asserted,
needn't lower the values Of sur
rounding property. In fact, it was
Mr.. Tuemmler's observation that
they often have raised values.
Stable Zoning Needed.
This doesn't mean, he went on,
that apartment houses should be
dumped" Unfortunately in the
middle of any single family develop
ment. Homeowners must be given
assurance that their community will
remain stable and will be protected
from zoning infringements, he said
Most apartment house construc-
ton" he declared, depends entirely
on conditions in the particular area.
1t has been my experience that
such construction works out best
around commercial and industrial
nuclei"
His conclusions as they affect
Montgomery County are only tenta-
tive, Mr.. Tuemmler stated. AS he
makes a more thorough survey of
the area preparatory to drawing up
master plan for development of
both Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties. they may be
changed.
Above ALL" he emphasized, II
need the cooperation of the public.
I'm going to live in Maryland and I
want to contribute as much as any
one toward its evolution and de-
velopment."
Traffic Pressing Problem.
One of the most pressing prob
lens needing immediate solution, he
said, is the combined one of traffic
and parking, particularly in the Sill
yer Spring area.
Although he has thought of no
one remedy as yet, Mr.. Tuemmler
suggested that congestion might be
alleviated through the channeliza-
ton of traffic
He recalled that in other COM
munities, parking lanes had been
provided in the rear of stores, both
for short and long time parking, thus
removing cars from the street and
leaving it open for moving traffic.
Plans Never Final.
With regard to a master plan to
embrace parks, roads, building con-
struction and various land uses in
both counties, Mr.. Tuemmler con-
tended that such a plan must never
be final-that it must change along
with the development of various
communities included in it.
Its not like map" he explained,
where streets, parks and roads are
fixed. A master plan should be used
as a guide, rather than as a fixed
map, and as communities grow, the
principles of the plan should be ap-
piled to the fixed map"
For example, he said, certain parts
of community may have outlived
their usefulness in a particular type
of zoning. If the master plan were
static. there would be no guide to
the type of rezoning that should be
used.
Mr.. Tuemmler also proposed the
preparation of a shelf" Of public
works to include needed public i'm
provements In the two counties over
a period of years. This might fit in,
he said, with the Federal Govern
ment's long range public works
program.