Evening star., 1946-11-16
ID. {. Heads 10 Meet
with PIannersM Monday
On Postwar Projects

A joint meeting Of the District
Commissioners with members Of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission will be held Monday
morning to find common approach
to some Of Washington's major post
war development problems.
The meeting, which viii begin the
planners monthly two-day session,
viii pry into the following ques-
tions:
/. The role to be played by the
planning group In making reality
Of the Capitals new slum clearance
and redevelopment law. Under the
law, the commission must make o
master plan for Washington, fol-
lowed by specific slum clearance and
rebuilding project plans. The latter
must be approved by the Commits
sioners before being turned over to
the five-man slum clearance agency,
yet to be appointed under the act.
2. Analysis Of Engineer Commits
sioner Gordon r. Youngis 1928 ,000,-
900 six-year plan for municipal i'm
provements required by Washing
tons mushroom growth.
To Consider Airports.
| 3. Future policy on the question
OF q municipal airport for the Dis
trict. Under law passed by Con-
gress last year, the District shares
IN Federal aid to build airports for
private planes. There Is doubt IL
the money has to be spent in the
District or may be used for air
facilities in nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
| 4. What unimproved land in the
city should be reserved for future
public development.
5. How the city Is to solve its
chronic highway and transportation
Iproblems.
| Q. How low-rent housing Is TO be
defined under the terms of the slum
act. The act says public low-rent
housing shall be used only for fam
lilies In the lowest one-fifth income
bracket. but establishing a definite
top figure for the bracket Is likely
!, TO prove difficult task.
II Z. What legislation of interest to
both the planners and the Commis-
sioners should be laid before the new
] Republican Congress.
4 Inspection Tour Slated.
! Commission members and the city
heads will make joint tour Of the
city Thursday to get first-hand i'm
pressions Of the citys outstanding
development problems.
The planners are expected to give
final approval of latest Federal plans
for the new General Accounting
ONCE building at Fifth and q streets
NV, when they begin their own
meetings Monday afternoon.
They also are to decide what to
I do about a regional airport plan for
4 the Washington area. John Nolen, r.
the commissions director of plan.
!, ming, told reporters yesterday pres.
sure Is being brought to bear or
q Maryland and Virginia airpor-
q licensing agencies to approve com
't mercial and private airports with
out regard TO any particular plan
~ GaIlinger Protest Up.
They are expected to approve tn
!. final draft of changes in the Anacos
. tia flats reclamation program to allo,
!. for the proposed Baltimore Wash
'iington Parkway and other project
!. not listed In the original Anacosti,
! ) plan.
: The District Health Department
attempts to block extension of Mas
sachusetts avenue SE. through th.
grounds of Gallinger Hospital alst
I is to receive attention.
The right Of way for the avenue
is 160 feet wide. Health Department
officials would like to use this land
for Gallinger Hospital expansion
and object to major thoroughfare
: cutting across the hospital grounds
On the other hand, the act creatinf
the hospital in 1917 specifically pro.
vided for the extension Of the ave.
nue., and all hospital plans to dat.
have been made with this in mind.