Evening star., 1944-11-30
7 Rezoning Petitions
Denied, ; Approved
In Montgomery

recommendation on 10 zoning
amendment petitions In Montgomery
County scheduled for hearing be-
fore the District Council next month
were adopted yesterday by the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. Denial
Of two applications, one of which
would permit apartment zoning on
the Bergdol tract in Somerset, de-
ferment of five others and approval
Of three was recommended.
In asking deferment on the five
petitions, the commission advised
the District Council that it expects
to complete its studies of master
land use shortly and suggested the
District Council delay action until
the master plans are formally ap-
proved.
Efforts to have the Bergdon tract
rezoned during the past year have
created considerable opposition
among residents in the Somerset
and Bethesda communities. A hear
ing on the application requesting
Redistribution from residential A
to residential G for portion of the
tract, containing about 80 acres and
fronting on Wisconsin and Dorset
avenues and Warwick place ex-
tended, has been set for December
80 at the Bethesda County Building.
One-family Homes Favored.
Concurring in recommendation
of Fred w. Tuemmler, its director
of planning, and Irwin I. Kaplan,
chief engineer, the commission sug-
gested the tract could be quite ad-
vantageously developed as single
family community"
The second petition recommended
for denial by the commission is a
request of Marshall Lehman, owner,
for rezoning for commercial pur-
poses a lot fronting on Brookeville-
Tenleytown road south of the Lin
den industrial area. 1t points out
that small one-family dwellings,
some of which are newly con-
structed, are adjacent.
Montrose Petition Favored.
Approval of petition by Jack
Kalyjian and Howard A. Rine,
owners, requesting reelassiflcation to
commercial of approximately 410
feet along the Rockville pike at
Montrose was recommended.
The commission also recommended
approval of a request of L. Harold
Sothoron, vice president Of Tech
Construction Co., that the northwest
corner of Ellsworth drive and Fen
ton street, Silver Spring be classified
as commercial D. Similar action
was suggested in the application Of
Walter L. Funderburk requesting re-
classification from residential A toI
residential C of three lots on the
south side of Thayer avenue in
Blair r-Takoma, section 2.
Deferment was recommended,
however, in another request of Mr..
Sothoron for the Tech Construc-
ton Co. seeking commercial re-
classification for part of block 8
bounded by old Fenton street. Ellis
worth drive, new Fenton street and
Baltimore road.
Woodmoor Petition Deferred.
The commission also recommended
deferment of the petition of c. H.
Keller, treasurer for the G & CI
Properties Corp, asking reclassifi-
cation of a parcel at the southeast
corner of Colesville road and Pierce
plane, Woodrnoor. The staff MEM
bers had recommended denial.
The commission also differed with
its staff on the recommendation on
two petitions filed by James w. Gill,
attorney, to rezone from residential
A and residential C to commercial
D, property fronting on Roeder road
and Ellsworth drive and along new
Fenton street.
Recommending denial, the staff
states that although it's studies are
not complete in the areas north and
east of Fenton street, they have not
thus far indicated the desirability
of extending the commercial zone
east of Fenton street at this
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