Evening star., 1946-01-25
Planners Consider
Height Of TeIevision
lowers in District

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission devoted its
entire morning session today to
discussion of the height which
should be established for television
towers in the District.
The matter was taken up at the
request of Brig. Gen. Gordon r.
Young, Engineer Commissioner
The hamburger Broadcasting Co.
and the National Broadcasting Co.
have been granted heights of 300
feet at Fort Reno and $50 at Ward
man Park Hotel, respectively, by
the District zoning Commission, and
Gen. Young is seeking the advice
OF the planners before the Commis-
sioners give final approval.
The commission has discussed the
towers at nearly every recent meet
ing, since it acts in an advisory ca
pacity to the District Zoning Com
mission. It's executive officer, A. E.
Demaray, is a member of the coming
body, and John Nolen, jr., its direc-
tor of planning, serves on the Zoning
Advisory Council and the Board of
zoning Adjustment.
To Consider Traffic.
Other matters to be considered by
the commission today were the Pub
lie Buildings Administration plan to
erect hangers at the National Air
port, the streamlining of Fourth
street where it crosses Howard
University, a proposed access road
leading to the Hot Shoppe at the
Rosslyn end Of Key bridge, and the
views on the city's transportation
system presented by Town Meeting
of the Air" speakers at the Wash
ington Board of Trades District
Night" meeting week ago.
w. E. Reynolds, public buildings
commissioner, will present the air.
port plan. He said yesterday he
could not now make details of sthe
plan public.
Another question to be considered
today was location of 600 tempo
rary housing units for District vet
Grams on park land.
The Federal Public Housing Au-
thority is willing to construct them
if the District will provide sites
and road and utility connections.
The commission yesterday after
noon approved tentative plans for
developing Anacostia Park as far
upriver as Bladensburg. The de-
velopment, according to Thomas S.
Settle, commission secretary, would
be similar to that already COM
pleted in the lower reaches of the
park near Sousa Memorial Bridge.
The park development would 60
hand in hand with a program of
the District engineer for the Wash
ington Area to streamline the chan
mel of the Anacostia, dredging the
channel to accommodate small boats
as far as Bladensburg and using the
fill to reclaim the river flats.
Parkway Section Acquired.
The plan also would provide an
anchorage at Bladensburg for from
SO to 100 small boats, plus a wharf.
Mr.. Settle recalled yesterday that
the project would make Bladens-
burg port again after nearly a
century Of being blocked to water
borne traffic by silt. He said Bla-
densburg at one time was thriving
tobacco port.
The commission announced late
yesterday it had acquired from the
Navy a mile-long strip of the land
surrounding the David Taylor Model
Testing Station Basin at Carderock.
Md, to become part of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway. The
strip borders the G. & o. Canal.
In addition, the Navy has given up
a small strip at the east end of the
testing basin reservation to provide
a connecting road leading from the
Macarthur boulevard to the park
way when the latter is built.