Evening star., 1945-11-25
Park Planners Back
Three Montgomery
Rezoning Proposals

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on nVe OF 81
applications for rezoning in Mont
gomery County, on which hearings
are scheduled for next month be-
fore the Board of County Commits
sioners sitting as District Council,
were announced yesterday by the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
The commissions resolutions,
signed by its three Montgomery
County members, recommended de-
ferment of action by the District
Council on two of the rezoning ap-
plications and approval of three
others. 1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee, vice
chairman of the commission, said
action would be taken shortly on
recommendations for the other Pc
titions, on which hearings will be-
gin December and last through
December %.
Col. Lee said the large number
of applications indicated greatly
increased postwar building activity
in the county. One of the applica-
tions would permit the construc-
tion of a History hotel on the 1l6-
acre Corby estate at the northeast
corner of Rockville pike and Gar
ret Park road. The hotel would
be known as the Diplomat and is
expected to cost s20000,000.
Industrial Classification Sought.
One of the applications on which
deferred action was recommended
is that of Douglas r. and Mildred
H. Lawrence seeking reclassifcation
from residential to industrial OF 6.85
acres of land Immediately east of
the B. g. o. Railroad and south OF
Randolph road, approximately
miles northwest of Kensington.
The commission asked deferment
pending completion of a study by
its planning and engineering staff
on the appropriateness for indus
trial use of the undeveloped loca-
tions along the B. g. o. Railroad. A
hearing on this petition will be held
at IL noon December a.
Disapproval of this petition was
recommended by Fred w. Tuemmler
director of planning, and Irwin I.
Kaplan, chief engineer of the COM
mission. Use of the property for
industrial purposes would increase
the volume of truck traffic at a
grade crossing in the vicinity, it
was said. The surrounding area has
only scattered rural residents at
present, the staff pointed out
The second application recon-
mended for deferred action by the
commission is that of o. L. Muir
dock, asking reclassification from
residential to commercial of two
lots at the northeast corner of ST.
Paul street and Forest Glen road
Kensington.
Land-Use Study Under Way.
The commission pointed out it
had requested members of its staff
to make a general study of ap-
propriate land uses in Kensington
similar to that it is making for the
Bethesda and Silver Spring business
districts. The property in question
appears to be in a transition area
and should not be rezoned until
the land-use study is completed, the
resolution stated
Approval was recommended for
the request of John w. Green, ask
ing zoning change from resi-
Dental to commercial for land
fronting 1l6 feet along the east side
of Wisconsin avenue near Rockville
A hearing will be held at noon De-
cember IL at the Rockville Court
house.
Also recommended for approval
were petitions of Marshall Lehman
and Boyd Keys seeking zoning re-
classifications from residential to
commercial of two lots fronting on
the Brookeville- -Tenleytown road at
Linden. A hearing on these appli-
cations will be held at pm. Decem-
Der 10 at Silver Spring.