Evening star., 1946-04-19
aiming Board
15VA
Sites
Commission SIotes
Other Matters for
Halliday Session
By Rudolph Kouffmonn II

Veterans Administration. officials
and members of the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission
today were slated to give careful
scrutiny to possible sites for the
750-bed veterans hospital proposed
for Washington.
The planners suggested IS pos
sible sites to VA officials a month
ago, and the VA since then has been
studying the locations.
It was doubtful whether the COM
mission representatives or VA OFF,
cials would disclose sites discussed
at today's meeting, since they feel
location Of the four or five to which
choice is said to have been narrowed
would tip off property owners to the
Governments intentions.
Halliday Schedule.
Other matters which the commits
sion was scheduled to consider to-
day, as it cut its meeting to half
day in observance of Good Friday,
were:
l. Latest draft of the Army en-
gineer project to push reclamation
of the Anacostia flats as far up river
as Bladensburg.
q Proposals for running an in
tercepter sewer from the Cabin John
area to the District line on C. g. o.
Canal land, now part of the National
Capital park system. The sewer
would hook up with the Districts
system under an agreement with the
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
Following the first day of its
monthly meeting yesterday the COM
mission firmly declined to reveal
what park land it has recommended
to Secretary of the Interior j. A.
Krug as suitable for use as veterans
sites for temporary veterans homes.
The commissions advice on the park
site question had been sought by
Mr.. Krug, according to Thomas S.
Settle, commission secretary, after
the District Commissioners had
asked for the use of five tracts of
park land to accommodate about
400 Of the $50 temporary dwellings
offered the District by the Federal
Public Housing Authority.
Back Rezoning Fight.
The commission yesterday threw
its weight behind District residents
OF the Pinehurst Circle area in the
Northwest section in their fight to
prevent the Montgomery County
commissioners from rezoning land
on the west side of Western avenue
between Winnet road and East
Greenvale parkway to permit a
shopping center.
AT the same time the commission
announced it would recommend to
Maryland authorities that a Joint
coming advisory board be set up to
consider rezoning proposals near the
District line which are protested by
residents living nearby on the other
side of the line.
The recommendation was prompted
Mr.. Settle said, by the fact that only
last month the commission was
called on to help Maryland resi-
dents quash similar proposal in
volving District property in the
vicinity of Michigan and Eastern
avenue NE.
The commission yesterday adopted
report by its landscape architect
and recreation land planner, Thomas
G. Jeffers, recommending that
future land acquisition for play
space in nine areas of the District
be expanded beyond present plans
Commission staff members declined
to describe the nine areas.
The commission announced it in
tended to ask for an amendment to
the Pepper Randolph bill, which
would authorize Washington audi
torium as memorial to the dead OF
the two World Wars, SO that the site
for the building would have to be
approved by the Planning Comuis-
sion and the design approved by the
Fine Arts Commission.