Evening star., 1946-12-18
Board Again Refuses
10 Rezone SuiiIand
Tract for Apartment

Tract for Apartment
Zoning approval Of an 1S-acreI
tract OF land in Suitland, Md, to-
permit construction Of a $3,250, 900
apartment community has been de-
MED by the Prince Georges County
commissioners for the second time
In less than three months.
The proposed project was turned
down yesterday, despite prior rec
concentrations of the Maryland
NationaI Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission and numerous
Government and county officials. 81
An application by HartweH Tucker
of Oxon Hill for Redistribution Of
the property, located on Silver Hill
road, between the Marlboro pike
and Suitland road, from residential
A to residential G for apartment
use, previously had been disap-
proved by the commissioners on
october 8.
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4 It was rejected yesterday for
the same reason protests Of resi-
dents In the surrounding area
against additional apartment COM
munities for the Suitland section.
The commissioners decision fol-
lowed a stormy two-hour session in
the County Courthouse at Upper
Marlboro.
Mr.. Tucker and E. David Corn
ing, architect for the proposed prpj-
ect, told the more than 100 per-
sons who attended that 400 units
had been planned, to include off,
street parking, playground facili-
ties and garbage and trash dis
posal plants. They would have
rented from $40 to $3.50, inclld-
ing utilities, it was reported.
A delegation, led by Raymond c..
Taylor, 5307 Silver Hill road, said
residents opposed any kind of
apartment dwellings and explained
they preferred strictly resi-
Dental" community.
Angered at charges made by the
opponents to the proposed develop
ment, State Senator L. Harold Soth-
oron, who represented Mr.. Tucker,
declared the opposition was willing
to give a principality in Utopia, but
not an apartment in Suitland. I"
Recommended in Letters.
Among persons and agencies from
whom letters recommending the
project were received. were j. Edgar
Hoover, director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation; Harry r.
Hall, chief engineer OF the Washing n
ton Suburban Sanitary Commission;
j. Darby Bowman, secretary-treas-I
urer of the same group: County
School Superintendent G. Gardner
Shugart, the Navy photographic
Plant, Suitland; Army All. Base
Headquarters, Andrews Field, and
the Washington, Marlboro and An
napolis bus lire.
After conference with Louis B.
Arnold, University Park corpora
ton counsel, and Attorney Walter
L. Green, the commissioners an
nounced clarification of their rul-
ing of November 20, which granted
temporary six-month zoning ap-
proval to the Pied Piper Nursery
School, 6221 Forty-third avenue,
HyattSville. !
The commissioners said there was
no intent on their part to permit
any activity other than those al
lowed under residential "A. to- be
conducted Ia this ares without spec
ial permission. The commissioners
added they would 1s "a the rec
ommendation and nndiug OF the
Park and Planning Commission and
the Mayor and Council Of Hyatts-
vile and refuse permit to operate
q nursery or day school in the pres
ent location.
E A period not exceeding more than
six months from November 20 was
granted the home to enable its
owners to make other arrangements.
the commissioners said. Such In
dulgence, they explained Is for the
accommodation of the parents OF
children attending the nursery and
not as an approval of the appli-
cant's conduct in establishing this
enterprise without legal authority"
Act on Traffic Hazard.
Following the recommendation of
Mrs. Walter M. Perkins of Cherry
Hill road, Berwyn, whose son, David.
70, was seriously injured when struck
by an automobile October o., while
crossing the Washington Baltimore
boulevard at. Greenbelt road, the
commissioners asked the Maryland
State Traffic Safety Commission to:
"a Paint large white-lettered
signs on the road surface, Cd erect
large signs near the Berwyn Ele-
mentary School. CD extend the 80
mile speed limit to the edge of
Berwyn, a. enforce such Speed linn
its. and Isl reduce the speed limit
in the school area to 10 miles per
hour.
A tax exemption for property in
University Park, owned by the Riv-s
erdale Presbyterian Church as a
site for q new church, also was ap-3
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