Evening star., 1946-11-27
County Defers d
Improvement
Bond Issue
Hondicops Cited,
For Prince Georges
$500. 900 Program

Postponement Of at least half OF
the $1.000,0 900 metropolitan district
improvement program for Prince
Georges County was foreseen to-
day, after a decision Of the county
commissioners not to issue $500, ,000
in bonds this year for such work, as
originally planned.
Authority to issue half Of the
bonds, in 1945 and the remainder
this year, had been granted by
the Maryland General Assembly
Funds obtained from their sale
were to have been used mainly fol
and lighting improve
ments.
The commissioners acted yester-
day at their weekly meeting at
Upper Marlboro after 1t was pointed
out that because Of conditions in
the construction industry sufficient
work had not been accomplished to
consume the $500,000 realized from
bonds sold last December.
xV DECk Law tnaHSNs
Issuance OF the bonds now, the
commissioners contended, would
mean only that large sums of
drawing interest, would be
in the hands of the county COM
without expenditure"
Instead the commissioners rec
that the county delega-
tion to the State Assembly be re-
quested to introduce bill during
the 1947 session. which begins In
January, for authority to issue the
$500, 900 in bonds during
1947 or 1948 at the discretion OF
the commissioners.
The commissioners deferred ac-
ton on a request for a rehearing
by Hartwell Tucker OF Oxon Hill,
whose petition for zoning change
from residential to apartment
classification was rejected on Oc-
tober 8.
Mr.. Tucker, through his attorney
Adrian p. Fisher, said additional
evidence supporting a proposed
apartment project on nearly Il
acres OF land on Silver Hill road
between Suitland road and Marl-
boro pike. had been obtained. The
previous request was turned down
after residents of the surrounding
community objected to additional
apartment communities for that
section.
The commissioners also took un-
der advisement a request for q re-
hearing In connection with the
granting of six-month temporary
coming approval to the Pied Piper
Nursery School, 622l Forty-third
avenue, Hyattsville. The request
was filed by Louis B. Arnold. Uni
versity Park corporation counsel
who represented the opposition.
School Site Purchase Authorized.
Zoning reclassification from res
idential A to commercial D was ap-
proved for Willie Richardson, for
lots I to Is, block A, Glenarden.
The Board Of Education was au-
thorized to spend 5000 from its
own funds, If available, to purchase
6 acres Of land from M. Leo Storch
as site for the proposed Seabrook
Elementary School.
Yesterday was the final full meet
ing of the present board. Members
will conduct the first half of next
weeks session before the new board
is sworn in by Brice Bowie, clerk
Of the Circuit Court. New commits
sioners next week will be Norman A
Collins of Forestville, and Henry w
of Berwyn, who will re-
place James B. Bland and Theodore
B. Siehler. Reelected will be VIII
liam A. Carson, D. Leonard Dyer ano
John H. Beall.
The new Board Of Commissioners
will meet with the Maryland tai
commissioners at Upper Marlboro
December II, when that group con.
siders five protests from Cheverly
residents on tax assessments. Ths
commissioners also will preside or
December IL, when an assessment
hearing on new buildings In the
county will be held at Upper Marl-
boro. The monthly coming hearings
will be held December 10 at Hyatts-
vile. All three meetings are in ad-
dition to the regular Tuesday ses-
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