Evening star., 1947-09-07
Planners Urge
Rejectionof2O
zoning Requests
Recommend Approval
OfSeven Petitions
In Montgomery

The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission yes
terday recommended that the Mont
gomery County Commissioners deny
20 of % rezoning petitions on which
hearings are scheduled Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Seven of the petitions were recon-
mended for approval while the COM
missioners were asked to defer ac-
ton on one.
Hearings will begin at 1880 am.
Tuesday in the Rockville Court
house and will continue at 2:30 pm.
in the Bethesda County Building.
TIE Wednesday hearings will be
held at the Silver Spring Liquor Dis
pensary Building, beginning at 10
am.
Ask Rejection of Pleas.
Among petitions which the county
heads were urged to reject were
two filed by H. F. and j. A. Watson,
ir., and Hilleary o. Rose for the
reclassification from residential A
to residential G apartment house
use of approximately 20 acres be-
tween Sligo Greek and Alton park
way, Silver Spring.
Similar requests to rezone the
tract to apartment house use were
denied by the commissioners last
June after the proposals were Wig
orously opposed by the Allied Civic
Groups of Silver Spring and the
Woodside Park Civic and Seven
Oaks Manor Citizens Associations.
The new petitions modify the
earlier ones by setting aside two
groups of lots as buffer strip be-
tween the area proposed for resi-
Dental c classification and the
existing residential A zone.
Finds No Justification"
In its recommendation, the plan
ping commission said it still finds
no justification for this proposed
departure from the existing and
well-estabnshed zoning pattern of
this portion of Silver Spring" Hear
ings on the two petitions will be
held at and $40 pm. Wednesday
in the Silver Spring Liquor Dis
pensary Building.
Another rezoning request on
which unfavorable action was
recommended involves a 92-acre
tract on New Hampshire avenue
about a mile south of Hillandale
The owner, w. w. Rapley, seeks to
have the property rezoned from
residential A to apartment house
use.
A hearing on this request will be
held at $50 pm. Wednesday in the
Silver Spring Liquor Dispensary
Building.
Submitted Third Time. =
This is the third time in little
more than year that the petition
has been filed. No action was taken
when it was first presented last
summer, while the county commits
sioners denied it after it was sub
mitted a second time last spring
Strong opposition to the request has
been voiced by Hillandale residents.
Two. other petitions which the
planning commission recommended
be disapproved are being submitted
for the second time in three months.
They were denied .by the county
commissioners last June.
The requests, filed by j. r. and NJ
M. Clark, seek the rezoning from
residential A to c of 80 acres op-
posite the Naval Ordinance Labora-
tory, White Oak, and from resi-
dental A to commercial D of acres
at Colesville and Columbia roads,
White Oak.
Hearings on the two petitions will
be held at 800 and $3.50 pm.
Wednesday in the Silver Spring
Liquor Dispensary Building.
Other Petitions.
Other petitions recommended for
disapproval are:
r. Bates Warren, residential A to
commercial D of a lot on the south
side of Greentree road opposite the
Baptist Home for Children, Bethes-
da, and similar rezoning of 7 acres
at River and Goldsboro roads,
Bethesda.
George J. Moss. residential A to
commercial D of land at Old Bla-
densburg road and Lexington drive,
Woodmoor.
G. N. Keller, residential A to COM
mercial D of land at Colesville road
and Pierce place, Woodmoor.
Donald P. Rabbit, residential A
to commercial D of land along the
east side of Brookville road about
600 feet north of Hewitt avenue,
Hermitage Park.
Robert E. and Helen B. Needs,
residential A to commercial D OF
two lots fronting on Pershing and
Ellsworth drives, Silver Spring.
G. A. O'Connor, residential A to
commercial D of lot along the
northwest side of Colesville road be-
tween Fenton and Spring streets,
Silver Spring.
Two Petitions.
Donald K. Staley, two petitions
for the rezoning from residential A
to commercial D of land at Georgia
avenue and Fenwick lane, Silver
Spring. Mr., Staley, an attorney,
represents William and Evelyn T.
Scrimgeour in the petition.
Kate Woodworth, residential A to
commercial D of land on the east
side of Brookville road about one
half mile east of Layhill road.
N. G. Frederick. residential A to
c of 4 lots at Ritchie and Sligo
avenues. Takoma Park.
Martin Ricks, residential A to
commercial D of land on the south
side of the Norbeck-Sandy Spring
road about ~ miles east of Brook
vile road.
Charles Sheffries, residential A to
commercial D of land at the inter-
section of New Hampshire avenue
and the proposed intercounty high
way.
Seek Rezoning of Lots.
Kass Realty Co., Inc, residential
A to c Of 8 lots at East West high
way and Montgomery avenue, Be
thesda
Antoinette K. Nee, residential A to
G of 612 acres on the west side of