Evening star., 1947-10-16
be|tsviI|e Tract
.zoned for 1900
Apartment Units
Smaller Project
In Oxon Hill Also
Approved by Board

community, shopping center and
theater near Beltsville, estimated to
cost about s13,000,000, today had
zoning approval Of the Prince
Georges County commissioners.
A second request for apartment
zoning to construct about 200 units
in Oxon Hill, the cost of which is
expected to reach $1,5O0,000. was
among nine other applications for
rezoning approved by the commits
sioners yesterday at their zoning
hearing at the County Service
Building, Hyattsviile.
Two requests for apartment zon-
ing also were denied by the COM
missioners. In addition. the county
heads approved two requests for
nursery permits. two for operation
OF gasoline filling stations and one
for permission to open a construc-
ton equipment storage yard. A re-
quest to operate tourist camp at
Berwyn was rejected.
The Beltsville project will be
erected by the r. E. Latimer Land
Co. OF Washington, whose applica-
ton for reclassification of two tracts
in the vicinity of Powder Mill and
Cherry Hill roads was approved yes
terday. The petitions originally had
been slated for hearing August 20,
but were continued twice until this
month.
Garden-Type Apartments.
The apartments, which will be Of
the two and three story garden type,
will be built as soon as practical
on "A acres fronting 1924 feet along
the east side of Powder Mill road
and 1,940 feet along the south side
of county road leading from Pow
der Mill road to Selman road The
commercial property will be erected
on 2-acre site fronting 479 feet
on the west side of Powder Mill
road. 305 feet along the east side
of Cherry Hill road and 292 feet
on the south side of old Powder
Mill road.
The two tracts are located about
halfway between the Naval Research
Laboratory at White Oak and Belts
vile.
The way was cleared for the Oxon
Hill project when a rezoning from
residential A to residential c for
use was approved for
about Is acres, owned by Alfred L.
Thomas, located on Southern ave-
nue., just south of Wheeler road.
Opposition by the Queens Chapel
Citizens Association, through it's
spokesman, Daniel M. Greene of
Avondale. resulted in the commits
sioners' disapproval of apartment
zoning for tract of nearly five
acres on the north side of Queens
Chapel road, opposite the Queens
Chapel Manor Apartments, Mount
Rainier. Mr. Greene contended
there already are sufficient apart
ments or proposed apartments in
the area and said the owner of the
property had promised" residents
of Avondale, which adjoins the site,
that none would be erected there.
+ Approved by Planners.
Attorney T. Howard Duckett, who
represented Vernon D. Hedin, owner
of the property. said 300 apartments
in a flve-story building would have
been built on the site if apartment
zoning had been granted. The
Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission had recon-
mended approval of the rezoning.
The other rejected apartment
zoning was that of Andrew ]. Hef-
from for two lots on H street, near
Forty-ninth avenue, Capitol Heights.
The request was denied when the
planning commission urged disap-
proval on grounds it constituted
spot zoning"
The following action was taken on
other zoning petitions:
Approved.
John Dyke. reelassification from resi-
vista sse sgsSdivision, Fairmount Hsishts. o'Nan
residential A to commercial D, Of parcel
of LAND nd on the south side of Route No.
A.. Breeman. recassifeation Snygt from mn, resi-
Dental to commercial D. Of one lot on
the north or side Of Rhode Island avenue.
Charles A. Parks and Joseph P. Lopien-
ski, reclassification from residential to
commercial D. of eight lots on the George
M. Palmer highway. at the southwest
| Park.
Dayid l. Merkle and Paul P. Merkle. re-
classification from residential A to COM
mercial D, of four lots at the northwest
corner of the same intersection, East Co.
lumbia Park.
! L. o. Minear. Redistribution from resi-.
Dental A to commercial D, of seven acres
on the west side Of Defense highway, north
of Cross street. West Lanham.
Eloise P. Claim. reclar rsihcation from
at College and Yale avenues, College Park
| Lionel L. Pumphrey, reclassfcation from
| residential A to commercial D, of two
lots and part of another on Tuxedo road.
Helen L. Hughes. permission to operats
day nursery at 620s Ager road. Brook
Mrs William E. King. permission to
Wade II. Sheriff and Alice B. Sheriff.
permission to operate a~public garage and
gasoline filling station on two lots 'front.'
ing 120 feet on Defense Highway, Decatur
HEIGHTS subdivision, Bladensburg.
William Brainin, permission to operate
a gasoline filling station on the northwest
side Of New Hampshire avenue, near the
Alva E Porter permission to use prop
erty at 4s15 Froelich lane. Hyattsville, as
AZ construction equipment storage yard
i Disapproved.
Lawson Abrams. permission to. operate
a tourist camp on portions OF four lots
lon the north side Of the Baltimore boule-