Evening star., 1945-12-20
zoning Board States
Rehearing on 3O0-Ff.
|TeIevision Tower

Application of the Bamberger
Broadcasting Services for permis-
sion to establish a television broad
casting station at Fortieth and
Brandywine streets NV. will be
given a rehearing by the Board of
Zoning Adjustment January 16.
The rehearing, voted unani-
mously by the board yesterday, will
come only a few days before the
company goes before the Federal
Communications Commission on its
application for television fire.
quency.
Previously the board. by a 3-to-2
vote, had ruled adversely on the
application, which asks for a 300
foot tower, but approved 200-foot
tower on the ground there would be
substantial improvement in service
provided by the extra 100 feet.
New FEC Ruling Cited.
Yesterday, Attorney Harry S.
Wender presented to the board as
new evidence for q rehearing the
recent ruling by the FEC setting a
500-foot minimum for television
towers above the pgevailing height
|tz ~ surrounding terrain. The
seIected site has a. Altitude of 400
feet and the prevailing height is
described as 200 feet, Mr.. Wender
explained, so that d 300-foot tower
Is necessary to meet the FEC min
imum requirement.
The board ruled that any rehear-
ing would have to be on the entire
application, but Chairman Theo-
dore Coe said, that If no objection
was offered, some of the previous
testimony would be reinserted.in the
record to save time.
Other Gases Acted On.
Other action by the board on
cases heard yesterday included:
Appeal OF the Standard Oil Co.
Of New Jersey to extend an exist
ing gasoline station at 222 New York
avenue NV. Granted.
Appeal OF Samuel A. and Marta
Weinberger to establish a temporary
rooming house in the "a" restricted
area at 1910 Tuckerman street NV.
Granted.
Appeal Of Herbert E. and Eugene
A. Riley to establish a temporary
parking lot at 5000 Wisconsin ave-
nue. NV. Granted for five cars.
Appeal of Ovidio Piani to change
a nonconforming use from an auto
mobile repair garage to an automo-
bile repair garage and salesroom for
secondhand automobiles at 1907
Corcoran street NV. Denied.
Appeal of Gustave Kaiser to
change a nonconforming use from
a delicatessen to a dry cleaning store
at 1903 Shepherd street NV. De-
MED.
Apartment Cleared.
Appeal of the Terrace Corp. to
build apartments at Twenty third
and Alabama avenue Sc. Previous
approval, which was lapsed, was re-
affirmed.
Appeal of the L and S Construc-
ton Co. to establish a pressing shop
at $500 Woodley road NV. Denied
Appeal of L. E. F. Prince to es-
tablish a gasoline station on the
northwest corner of Twelfth and
Kearney streets NE. Denied.
Appeal of Anna v. Cooper Head
on behalf of Ethel E. Bonbrest, con-
tracing purchaser, to establish q
day nursery at 1901 Forty-fourth
place Sc. Granted for not more
than 20 pupils.
Appeal of Kass Realty Co. to ereci
a 10-story addition to an existing
building at 713 to 721 Fourteenth
street NV. Denied.
Appeal Of Giuseppe and Salvatrics
Giacinto, owners, on behalf of CLARK
T.. Trumbull, jr., contract purchaser
to establish a motorcycle sales anc
service station at 912 Sixth street
INV. Granted.
/ Appeal Of r. GittelSon to change
la nonconforming use from a grocery
store to q delicatessen at 521 TWen.
lty-third street NV. Granted.
Appeal Of Mauren Peck to estab-
lish real estate and law Offices al
I1220 L street NV. Granted.