Evening star., 1947-11-08
Lodging House
zoning Ban Put
Off Nine Months
Rooms May Be Rented
In q Restricted Areas
Up to Oct. !, 1e48

ed residential areas have been
granted an extra nine months in
which to find other accommodations.
Wartime relaxation of zoning
regulations for the rooming houses
had been due to end next December
81. The Zoring Commission, how
ever, agreed yesterday to allow
houses In "a" restricted and semi
restricted districts to take in pay
ing guests until next October /.
Rooming -house owners had sought
an extension to December 81, 1948.
A spokesman for the commission ex-
planned that in granting the nine
month extension, the commission
was primarily interested in making
1t unnecessary for lodgers to move
during the winter months.
Two Conditions Set Up.
The commission attached two con-
ditions to its amendment of the zon-
ing regulations. They were:
/. That no new rooming or lodg-
ing houses should be established in
the residential areas without a IL
cense from the District building in
spector.
2. That applications for such Ii
censes must contain a promise to
cease operation of the rooming or
boarding house on or before Septem-
ber 80, 1948.
Meanwhile, in another develop
ment in the commission session at
the District Building yesterday, the
Fairmac Corp. finally won it's fight to
"legitimize" the cafeteria it has been
operating al Mclean Gardens, it's
giant Wisconsin avenue housing
development.
Council Overridden.
The commission overrode it's ad-
visory council in agreeing to extend
IS feet westward a residential C
area strip on which some of the
cafeteria is built. This revision
brings the entire cafeteria within
the C zone.
The cafeteria, serving some 1000
employees in a nearby Office of the
General Accounting Office and resi-
dents of the area as well as $3.50
Mclean Garden tenants, now will
operate as hotel restaurant"
Hotels are permitted in residential
c areas. Fairmac is making avail
able to transient guests 80 rooms in
the building in which the cafeteria
Is located, to bring the eating place
within the hotel restaurant" cate
CORY.
The Zoning advisory council had
urged the commission to wipe out
the entire Mclean Gardens c area
strip. This would have forced Fair
mac to operate the cafeteria only
as a boarding house" for Mclean
Garden tenants, with the public
excluded.
Rule on 13 Proposals.
The commission also ruled on 49,
other proposed changes in the zon-
Ing map, as follows:
Change from residential. 4O' "a" re-
stricted area to hrSt commercial, go c.
area, premises 3s0s Morrison street NV.
Change from residential, 40' "a" semi
mercial, 4O' c. area, part of squares.
and Minnesota avenue, and with frontage
aoutting both sides of DIX and both sides
Of Fortieth streets, proposed NE, all as
Ss mission. Den penied. cd e win 'ne coming o0m
- csanse ham from residential 4o' "A" area
Texas avenue frontage to depth Of 16o 10
feet therefrom between Burbank and Chap
lin streets Sc Approved
area in the westchester Apartment Build
ing at 1000, Cathedral avenue NV, to
include an additional area of approximate
y 1000 square feet, as shown on plat on
proved
Change from residential. 40' "a" area
lots at the northeast corner Of Upsal street
snd<Nichols avenue Sc. Denied.
Kesrny Street Change.
area % to residential. iti 40, "A" restricted
area. premises 1906 Kearny street NE
Change ! from rssde1tial at, go &C. &C" area
RESIDENTIAL part Of lot s69, premises 1911
Chance from residdeent.iaall; eN &C" area
800 300 to 1922 AZ FoYEteenth street " NY
square 270a Denied.
TO hrst commercial, 80; ~ area. ali Of
1910 Ninetsenth street NV. ed Denied. -
10 frst commercial, so CO. area, prem
ises 637-39 K street Sc. Denied.
chanse from residential, 40' B" Re,
area to second commercial, go d. area,
al the southeast, corner Of Bladensburg
change from residential: 40, "A" and a" A.,
and go &C" areas to industrial go d.
area, all property zoned residential and
first commercial, located east of Bladens-
burg road to the District line between New
York avenue and line approximately 500
feet north thereof, NE, as shown on plat
on file with the Zoning Commission. Ap-
proved conditionally.
Change from frst commercial. 40 c.
area to residential. 4O' ''A' area, all prop
erty zoned FIRST commercial abuttinE Min MIN
sides of Meade street, Minnesota avenue
to 4sth street NE. Approved =, .,
TO first commercial, 40 &C" area, two
lots on the east side Of South Capitol
street near its intersection with Nichols
avenue Sc. Denied
HyattsviIIe Ex.Policeman