Evening star., 1943-12-18
Final Action DELAYED
On Bergdo|| Tract
Rezoning Petition
Council Decides to Wait
Until Street Plan
Is Presented

The Maryland-N National Capita,
Park and Planning Commission
meeting in Silver Spring yesterday
. approved the recommendation o1
its technical advisers that final
action be withheld by the District
Council on a petition for 1872 acres
Of apartment zoning in Somerset.
A hearing on the petition of Levi.
Bergson, jr., and Robert B. Greer
substitute trustees, for the rezonine
from residential A to residential {
for a piece of land known as thu
Bergdou tract will be held at 2:3(
pm. Wednesday at the Bethesds
County Building before the Boare
of County Commissioners sitting a.
a District Council.
Fred w. Tuemmler, director O.
planning, and Irwin l. Kaplan, chic.
engineer, the technical advisers
recommended that action be with.
held until a street plan has beer
presented. They also pointed ou
that the area is in section largely
developed as residential A property
and that it should be protected from
damage.
The advisers said they felt thai
the only portions of this vast trac'
which can be reasonably considered
as suitable for residential c pur'
poses is the frontage along Wis
consin avenue and possibly some o.
the land in the general vicinity OF
the industrially used land near the
western extremity of the tract"
Merit in Request Conceded.
Wisconsin avenue, they point out
is major traffic artery. Most OF the
old residential buildings on the Wes
side of the street between the sub
ject property and the District lnt
are used as tourist homes or fol
some mixed occupancy, with thai
abutting the District line being II
the commercial D zone.
Although the report said there Il
obviously merit for the request tt
rezone that portion of the tract haV-
ing frontage on Wisconsin avenue
it said the staff is not prepared al
this time to suggest the depth thai
should be placed in residential {
zone since it will require street
plan.
Similarly, while there may be
some justification for more intensive
land uses and transition along the
western edge of the tract in the
vicinity of the induStrially uSeo
land" the report continued, again
the amount and location can hardly
be determined without the proper
street plan. Here also protection OF
the well-established, high-class resi-
dental areas to the north OF the
subject property must be con-
sidered."
The commission also approved the
reports of it's technical advisers on
a number of other hearings on re-
zoning petitions scheduled for Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday alter
moons.
Silver Spring Hearings Monday.
Two hearings will be held at the
Silver Spring County Building Mon
day. The application of Blair Man
agement Corp, for reclasslncatlon
from residential c to industrial Z
zone of the portion of property on
the East-West highway near the
intersection of Colesville road Will
be heard at pm.
A hearing will be held at 2:3o
pm. on the petition of Mr.. and MIS-
Marshall Lehman for reclasslhca-
ton of property near Linden from
residential to industrial.
Four hearings will be held at the
Bethesda County Building begin
ming at 2 pm. Tuesday. Two OF the
petitions are made by Charles Mil
Ter for rezoning to commercial OF
property in the vicinity of Arlington
road. and the two others are appll-
cations of Ralph Morrison ano
Abraham Morrison, asking for re-
classification of residential A prop
erty in Edgemoor to residential {
and commercial D.
The application OF Mr.. and Mrs
Charles S. Moore for reclassiflcatlon
from residential to commercial OF
property on the north side of Walsh
street east of Wisconsin avenue, Will
be held in Bethesda at pm. Wed