Evening star., 1945-11-15
Planners Meet
To Act on D. c.
p Parking Woes
Moy Also Decide on
Extra Height for
Television Towers

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The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission opened its
monthly meeting today, prepared to
adopt some definite recommends
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 auto parking facilities be
provided, indoors or out, In connec.
ton with every sizable new CONNER.
cial development.
Consideration Of such an amend-
ment was requested by the District
Zoning Commission, as this and two
other zoning amendments are sched-
tlled for public hearing November
II. The other amendments affect
regulations governing teievision tow
ers and rooming and boarding houses
in restricted residential districts.
Six-Point Program.
Most of tomorrow's session will be
devoted to parking matters, with
Maj. Gen. U. 8. Grant, Sd, chairman
OF the commission, presenting his
six-point program, which has been
offered to the House District Sub.
committee on Parking Legislation,
The commission Is expected to back
him up.
Legal authority from Congress
already exists to require parking
facilities when new Office buildings
or other commercial plants are
erected but the war halted drawing
up the regulations. The 1912 zonine
law requires such facilities of hotels
and apartments in residential areas,
The Zoning Commission now wishes
to extend parking spaces to business
buildings in view Of the increased
trafi1c congestion.
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. DeYffa-
ray, associate director of the Ma.
tional Park Service. will discuss it.
A report also viii be made on the
program outlined by the recently
reactivated District Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency and pending bills
dealing with auto parking.
This morning the commission was
to consider plan for the new
Cleveland Park Recreation Center
and the draft Of a survey made by
the United States District Engineer
Once for food control and naviga-
ton improvements in. the Anacostia
River. 1t includes recreational facili.
ties IN the Anacostia Park. This is a
prewar program on which a start
only now is being made.
To Inspect Towers.
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.
Tomorrows program includes in
itiation OF a study Of temporary
public housing In relation to the
proposed liquidation OF Federal
emergency agencies in the District
and elsewhere. Mr.. Nolen win out
line the relation In discussing the
recommends tions made Saturday BY
George E. Allen, former District
Commissioner, that "as many Is
possible" Of these agencies be elm.
mated by June 80. 1916.
Delayed Effect Seen Here.
The commission feels that Wash.
1ngton viii be the last city affected
to any considerable extent by such
foundations. Expected Federal en-
ployment levels in the District,
therefore, viii continue to create q
demand for temporary housing, it
was said. Federal law requires re-
moval Of all temporary housing
within three years after the end Of
the war. :
Zoning regulations permitting
rooming and boarding houses in A
restricted and A semirestricted
areas expire December 81. Appl.
cations are before the zoning Com
mission to extend the limitations to
December 81, 1916, and it has asked
recommendations from the planning
group.
Another proposed zoning amend-
ment, sought by communications
services, is to permit ultrahigh
frequency stations in residential
districts. The communications sery-
ices want to put them on top of
high points in the District or on top
OF tall buildings, under the same
authority as granted for television
towers.
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