Evening star., 1945-12-29
Montgomery Refuses
Woodward & Lothrop
Rezoning for Parking

Rezoning for Parking
The Montgomery County commits
sioners yesterday refused to grant a
request of Woodward g. Lothror
Department Store to rezone fol-
off street parking a five-acre tract
adjacent to its proposed store at
Wisconsin and Western avenues,
Bethesda.
1t was held that approval by the
board this week of an amendment
to the county coming law eliminated
the necessity for owners of COM
mercial or industrial property to
apply to the Board of Zoning Ap-
peals for permission to use adjacent
residential land for off-street park
ing.
The department store representa-
tlves, however, assert that a restric-
tion under this amendment would
prevent the use of the lot for park
Ing its own trucks. Rezoning of the
tract to commercial would eliminate
this disadvantage, they say.
Those opposed to the rezoning say
there would be nothing to prevent
the land being used for purposes
other than store customer parking.
once the tract is zoned commercial.
The request to rezone the Corby
tract at Garrett Park. on the Rock
vile pike, to residential G also was
turned down by the Commissioners.
A S20,000,0o0 hotel, the Diplomat, is
proposed fer the site, but the Mary
land National Capital Park and
Planning Commission held that the
residential c classification would not
permit such a project. The planning
commission will file another petition
asking that the tract be rezoned to
commercial D.
Petitions granted were:
+. James I. Robson, owner. reclassifica.
hd B. zone ei lot ss' block s.: B. SiSe1SiTt f. Gi
DeIf AlbeT5 suDavsIGn " snd Fsa9ma Fo4ense Pak
owners. rezoning from residential "A" to
eommeTsial eant sTSs Of D Of acres on the north
Goldsboroush road -oe "'io
Petition initiated by the park and
Mccormck aoodhart tGa tPact. fe'uEn Known @ tas
Moinntgomery- Prince Georges. lines, from
property had been rezoned for apartment
r Il 0R Robsins saS sGS ownes nsea' reclsssicatiop
frcm residential "a to residential HC'' to
permit apartment house use Of lots and
raj 01oeA a. Section = Flower Avenue Park
John W Green. owner-agent for re-
'D Of ii6 feet fronting on r RocSViIIe Sersls pike
t9wn line On the east side Of the the road fss and
Industrial e. OF l16 by 2S5 feet in the
rear portion of the property, subject to a
60-foot building line
Frank B. Proctor. attorney for Marshall
Ign at.eennman' owner. rezonIng from residential
10 commercial ID" of the, property
Spring.
Beryl R. English owner, agent from
10. Roeders Addition t to Silver silver sprinsg q i0'
e G. Ligon, G. Rust Candy, w M
4-acEe tract on the south side Of the Ash
ton-Sandy Spring road. east of the Sher-
TSood School, in Sandy Spring neighbor-
Maryland Real Estate Co.. owner. resi-
a qear 70 bz 169 feef ffesidentlfi ef 1bs F of the
Addition to Silver. Spring.
@si o IL 65oepsy for 5 ~
unnumbered lot on Fenton Street facing
Solesville road and Roeder road Silver
Dan p HoIand don, n srci, trustee agent residential
R9TGn Rewe r9 Of asTois snd On Ba IT. NH snd
0A James w. eeifiihlvas eiil, attorney for owner,
OF lots Il to 10, inclusive, block E. Triangle
Marcus, Marcus Cohen, contract purchaser, from
lot occupied by the safeway store on sligo
avenues Silver Spring" ND"A anu -''Ns'
ADDITION E2asn sssr s1 e cosvs HHedsTd snd
Actions Deferred.
the board voted to defer action on the
-, Robert $, Baines, attorney for Van
the Brookviile and washington pike.
Bethesda. Co., by Leo Rocca, president,
owner and agent, from commercial to
+: l. Pa1se,: owner agent. from resi-:
and Part of 70 Is Se IN the Edsemoor ase s ahq tpaet
Bethesda
Albert z. Breault, attorney for Doug
rom residential "A to industrial land
at Randolph road and the B. g. o. Rail-
DAD at Randolph Station.
Clarence 3. Edwards. owner, from res
fdential "A" to commercial, two acres
in the Colesville district.
W. C. and A. N. Miller Development
Co.. from residential "a" to commercial;
Garrity tract on Saneamore road, ada
cent to the Army Map Service Building,
approximately 10000 square feet.
Petitions Denied.
The following petitions were denied:
Avon Shockey. and David Lorenz, owners,
from residential "A" to commercial, the
Kirkland tract on Rockville pike.
B. r. & R. C. Ackers. owners from res
idential "a to industrial, the Friendship
subdivision in the seventh election district.
w. c. g. A. N. Miller Development Co.,
from residential "A" to residential &C."
part. of the Garrity tract in tn seventh
8. L. Murdock. owner, from residential
"A' to commercial, lots ! and 2, 7,098
square feet at st. Paul street, Kensington
and Forest Glen roads.
Dorcss v; Fisher, Edther Crawford,
James M. Fisher and Bertice Volz, owners,
from residential "a" to commercial, lots 16
and Il, block 65; B. F. Gilhert's subdiVi-
German Edwards ownsr-sgsnt sCnars from rom
acreage on Columbia road near Fairland.