Evening star., 1941-07-10
Council 10 Force
Release Of Tract
orP|ayground
Alexandra Action
Follows Refusal Of
Bank to Sell Area
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 1O.-The
Alexandria City Council has author
lied City Manager Carl BudWesky
to institute condemnation proceed
ings against the Michael B. Harlow
property-on the north side of Glib
bon street between Lee and Union
streets. Mr.. BudWeSky said the eX-
ecutorS of the estate, the First
National Bank here, refused to sell
the land to the city for $500.
The city plans to use the one-acre
tract for a municipal playground
for white children in the First Ward
area of Alexandria, with funds for
purchase and equipping of the play
ground to be drawn from an appro-
priation of $4,000 made by the City
Council some time ago for play
ground Improvements.
Mr.. Budwesky said the city has
been using the land for some time
as a playground on loan" basis.
He said he would file petition with
Alexandria Corporation Court some
time within the next two weeks for
institution of the condemnation
proceedings. The petition will ask
Corporation Court Judge William P
Woolls to appoint a condemnation
commissioner and call a hearing
on the matter.
Council Rejected Offer.
The city heads authorized the
City Manager to start the proceed
ing after an officer of the First
National Bank had refused to sell
the land for the city's price OF
$500. Mr.. Budwesky said he
countered with an asking price Of
sl0,500. This offer was rejected by
the City Council.
The Council appropriated $4,000
for rewriting and improving lighting
facilities in city public schools. The
legislation was passed on its second
reading before the Council.
Mr.. Budwesky was authorized to
study sites for proposed municipal
lnclnerator, and to have plans and
specifications drawn up and to ad-
vertise bids for the projected incin-
orator. A related proposal that the
municipal dump at Four Mile Run.
on the northwest boundary of the
city, be closed was held over until
later date Mr.. BudweSky will re-
port his findings to the City Council
this fall. He will be assisted by the
city engineer and one member of
the council, who has not yet been
named.
Fences for Junkyards Voted.
.Junkmen and owners OF junkyards
will be required to erect fences at
least feet tall around their estab-
ishments, under the provisions OF
an ordinance passed by the city
council. The city manager also
asked City Attorney Armistead L.
Boothe to draft an ordinance re-
qulring junkmen to keep regular
books of their transactions and TO
curtail the practice of burning COM
bustible waste in their establish
ments.
The following zoning requests
were handled by the city heads
Denied a request to rezone land
bounded by Patrick, Franklin, Henry
and Gibbon streets from c residen-
tial to d. commercial; granted a
request to rezone property in the
1900 block of Duke street to d.
commercial: held over a request to
rezone the northwest corner of Pat
rick and Pendleton streets; ordered
hearings for September % on the
following zoning adjustment re-
quests: To rezone land at Mount
Vernon boulevard. Pitt street, First
and Second street from A residential
to d. commercial; a request to close
st. Asaph street between First and
Second street; and request to re-
zone land bounded by Columbus.
Jefferson, Franklin and Patrick
streets to CO residential.
The City Council adjourned fc~
the summer months and will no
its first executive meeting on t
second Tuesday in September.