Evening star., 1945-11-15
Planners Study
|Airstriip Near
Stadium Site
Widening of Lond
Along Anocostio
Is Proposed

Engineering studies on an air.
strip for private planes near the
site OF the proposed stadium at East
Capitol street and Anacostia park
were considered today by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission at its November meet
ing.
The studies were submitted by
the Aero Club OF Washington. They
propose widening the strip of land
between Kingman Lake and the
Anacostia River to permit construc-
ton Of the strip.
Thomas S. Settle, commission sec
retary, said the planners still were
considering the proposal at noon,
but had taken no action.
Members of the commission re-
vealed it is asking the Justice De-
partment to start condemnation
proceedings on three parcels of land
totaling 1614 acres near the David
w. Taylor Ship Model Testing Ba-
sin at Carderock, Md.
Will Be Added to Parkway.
The land will be added to that
already purchased for the District-
Great Falls section of the George
Washington Memorial parkway
Mr.. Settle said land purchases for
this section are rs per cent COM.
plete.
T. c. Jeffers of the commission
staff submitted plan and land
purchase program for a Cleveland
Park Recreation Center on an un-
disclosed site. The Cleveland Park
area is without major recreation
center.
The commission approved trans
fers of land from the Federal to the
District government to permit street
widening at the southeast corner of
Lincoln road and Franklin street
NE. and extension of Twenty sixth
street NE, north of Benning road,
to give access to the Brown, Young
and Phelps Schools.
At also approved striking from
the District highway plan an alley
not yet cut in square 5561 at Thir-
ty-sixth and Austin streets Sc.
Work on Parking.
The commission prepared to
adopt some definite recommenda-
tions to ease Washington's acute
auto parking problems before ad-
journment tomorrow afternoon.
The planners were expected to ap-
prove, among three proposed amend
ments to zoning regulations. one re-
quiring that auto parking facilities
be provided, indoors or out, in con-
nection with every sizable new COM
mercial development.
| Consideration of such an amend
ment was requested by the District
Zoning Commission, as this and two
other zoning amendments are sched-
uled for public hearing November
Fl. The other amendments affect
regulations governing television tow
ers and rooming and boarding houses
| in restricted residential districts.
Most of tomorrow's session will be
devoted to parking matters, with
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III, chairman
of the commission, presenting his
six-point program. which has been
offered to the House District SUBJ
committee on Parking Legislation.
The commission is expected to back
him up.
A touchy matter coming before
the Planning Commission is a pro-
posal to provide surface and under
ground auto parking space in the
downtown public parks. A. E. Dema-
ray, associate director of the Ma
tional Park Service, will discuss it..
A report also will be made on the
program outlined by the recently
reactivated District Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency and pending bills
dealing with auto parking.
| This afternoon the commission
will examine existing radio towers
in nearby Maryland. John Nolen,
director of planning, intends to
bring up tomorrow the question Of
possible additional heights for the
proposed radio television towers at
Fort Reno and on the Wardman
Park Hotel.