Evening star., 1947-07-04
zoners Re--authorize
Telephone Building
On N Street Property

The Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. stood winner today in
its battle for permission to build
a $5,000,000 Office building at Yer
mont avenue and M streets NV.
The zoning Commission yesterday
refused to reverse it's decision last
March rezoning the lots involved
from residential to first commercial.
Pressure from the Zoning Advisory
Council and the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
had forced a rehearing May % at
which counsel for the telephone
company hinted reversal of the
earlier approval might force the
company to build its eight-story
office in an adjacent State.
Permits Greater Space.
The council and the Planning
Commission suggested a more re-
strictive Zoning which would have
cut by 121a per cent the amount of
building space authorized on the
lots. Under the zoning as it now
stands, 80 per cent of the lot space
can be built on.
Decision was deferred on con-
troversial case involving modify
ing the commercial zoning in the
far northeast in the vicinity of
Twenty-fourth and Franklin streets.
Other Zoning Actions.
Other action by the commission
included:
Change from residential "a restricted
area to first commercial c. area, parcel
OF Ms o9a ss G AW see
Chance from residential ess1 a. area TO 70
1 wpr lots foad at th
Barnaby street Sc Approved.
Change from residential "a" area to
first ,comercial &c" area, part of lots To-
and Congress street extended to a depth
of 100 feet therefrom and between Twen-
ty-third street and a proposed Twenty
with tae zonins Commission. Approved.
fist commercial D. area lot ~, premises
acaed on be South r sds part 1f G sasness Da5es
the zoning. Commission: Approved
Change from residential "a" restricted
"a restricted area part of lot s33 at
the southeast corner of Livingston street
and Connecticut avenue NV. Approved. :,
R street let
denied.
Change from residential "B' restricted
area to residential c. area. all of that
part Of parcel lying east Of line 100 fee
erty located on the south side of Upshul
hrst e Commercial r C" eia' area. lots $50 1as g
l4O. 144 and 145, square e204, premises
Extend 'es the rst stree eommerciai afnS
district on the north side of Pennsyl.
vania avenue between Branch avenue and
feet s'fnss into parcel soe1so to line 200 fee,
north of and parallel to the north line
of PENNSYLVANIA avenue Sc. approved in
Change from rssldentisl ESD "G| G, area ts
zoned residential in saqare s7S beine
between between sixth ST and Seventh streets Sc,
SsPd the residential a. senss
and @ south Of Of ogiefhorpe street NE. west
to line 125 feet east of and parallel to
the east property line abutting Third
street NE, deferred.
Change from residential "B' area to first
commercial &C" area. all property zoned
portion Of L'Enfant SQUARE with frontage
avenues and Burns street Sc. denied.
Change from residential &C" area to
35: SO. and 81, prem premises ,Ils00-lo Con-
and 2101 S street N W, deferred.
Change from residential "a" area to
s42, and the residential part of lots 81 5
and S43, being interior property within
the square bounded by Peabody and Ninth
s streets, rect Missouri and Georgia avenues
Change from first commercial &c" area
zoned first commercial in squares 5271
and 5272 and all property zoned first COM
adjacent to lots abutting the south side of
property situated along both sides of
Sixty-first street between Blaine. and Dix
4freetS NE. apprOVed