Evening star., 1941-04-18
Planning Board
Gets S1,300,000
For Projects
Lund Now Available
As Far as Meade for
Baltimore Parkway

A total of $4,000 has been
made available to the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission
for work on three major projects un-
der terms of the Independent Ohices'
Appropriation Act, Thomas S. Set
tie, commission secretary, told the
group today.
Recently signed by the President,
the act provides the Planning Com
mission with $780, 900 to buy more
land for parks and Fairgrounds in
the city; s250OOO for development of
the George Washington Memorial
Parkway in Maryland. and 100000
with which to extend the Anacostia
River Parkway from Bladensburg to
Beltsville. Mr.. Settle said.
Mr.. Settle also announced that the
Government now controls the land
necessary to development of the pro-
posed parkway road between WASH
ington and Baltimore as far as Fort
Meade. The Maryland Legislature
must obtain the right of way from
there to Baltimore before work on
the parkway can begin, he added.
Bridge Survey Recommended.
The commission considered H. r.
1108, bill prepared by Representa-
tive Smith, Democrat of Virginia,
providing for a study of Highway
Bridge traffic. 1t was recommended
that the measure be broadened to
include a study of all bridges be-
tween Virginia and the District, Mr..
Settle said.
The commission secretary an
nounced that jurisdiction of the
Maryland Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission had been extended
by the Maryland Legislature to en-
brace the portion of Prince Georges
County to the west of and including
the town of Suitland.
Mr.. Settle said the commission
felt, however. that the entire Suit
land area eventually would have
to be controlled by the Maryland
planning group If proper super
vision of the real estate develop
ment foreseen near the Federal Of
flee building to be erected there was
to be provided.
Underpass Approved.
The commission yesterday approved
a bill pending in Congress which
would permit the Pennsylvania Rail-
road to construct an underpass be-
meath New York avenue near Fourth
street NE. This would enable the
railroad to run its cars closer to
markets in the vicinity, it was said.
Approval also was given the plan
to transfer the Mcmillan Fountain.
made necessary by installation of
new filters at the reservoir, to a new
location on the Mall east of Third
street and south Of Pennsylvania
avenue,
Thomas c. Jeffers, the commits
sion's landscape architect, made a
report of the status of land now in
use for Fairgrounds and recreation
areas. The report is to be used in
the congressional hearings on the
Settle recreation board bill.
Road Plans Asked.
The commission requested the
Public Roads Administration to pre-
pare plans and cost estimates for
a projection of the cantonment
roadway soon to be built between
the Columbia Island traffic plaza
and Military road in Arlington
near Federal Office Building No. 2
The cantonment roadway should
be considered the first stretch of an
approach to the city from the South,
the commission feels. The extern
sion they have asked the P. r. A.
to map would continue from Mill
tary road around the south side of
Arlington National Cemetery and
join Lee boulevard west of Fort
Myer.