Evening star., 1947-02-20
Georges
Approves2Big
HousingProjjects
Zoning Is Changed
Near Silver Hill
And Brodbury Heights


communities, one near Silver Hill
and the other near Bradbury
Heights, and shopping center and
l ,000-seat theater on New Hamp-
shire avenue, near the East-West
highway, Takoma Park, were one
step closer today.
Their progress advanced yester-
day when zoning approval was given
by the Prince Georges County COM
at their monthly hear
ings at the County Service Build
ing, Hyattsville. The three projects
are estimated to total more than
$4,000 900.
The Silver Hill community will
rise on property owned by Charles
G. Koones, District real estate
broker, on Southern avenue, south
of Naylor road and Military high
way. Residential g approval for
apartment use was given the 19-
acre site, subject to reservations
necessary for the Maryland Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission to extend the Oxon
Run parkway.
Preliminary plans call for erec-
tion of about 800 garden-type apart
ments, estimated to cost $1,500,00O.
800 Other Homes Proposed.
The property is adjacent to more
than 100 acres, also owned by Mr..
Koones, on which more than 300
homes also are proposed, a spokes-
man for the firm said. Construction
Of the apartments, which will start,
first, is scheduled soon.
The second apartment project and
a shopping center were assured for
nearly 16 acres on the south side
OF Marlboro pike, at Sumner avenue,
about $500 feet from the District
line. The site, owned by w. Landon
Turner, was given residential A
and commercial D zoning. 1t is To-
Gated in the vicinity of the Spaulding
Heights and Coral Hills subdivisions.
Mr.. Turner said construction Of
$50 units to cost nearly $200O,0OO
will get under way in April, If pos
sible. The shopping center and a
proposed parking lot will be located
nearest Marlboro pike, with apart
ments to the rear, he added. jeff
ress-Dyer, Inc, of Washington, will
do the construction, he said.
Is Stores and Theater Planned.
The New Hampshire avenue prof.
ect will be constructed by the Kass
Realty Co. of Washington, which
was granted commercial D zoning
for property fronting 387 feet on the
northwest side of the highway and
160 feet deep, south of Ethan Allen
avenue East-West highway.
Attorney J. Douglas Bradshaw,
who represented the firm, told the
commissioners 16 stores and a the
ater would be erected. The shopping
center also will include parking
space for 1877 automobiles in rear
and SO in front, he said. Estimated
cost also will be about 81 100000, he
added.
Other Commercial ID Zonings.
Other commercial D zonings ap-
proved included
A. S. Kay, George Wasserman and
Solomon Grossberg, owners, for two
tracts, opposite the Haywood Gar
dens Shopping Center, near Eastern
avenue and Varnum streets, Mount
Rainier; Herman E. Schleehaaf, for
two lots on the west side of the
Washington Baltimore boulevard,
between Prince Georges and Central
avenues, Berwyn; Clara B. Barr. for
three lots at Southern avenue and
Park road, Bradbury Heights; ]. c.
and Anna L. Stewart, for nearly two
acres of the Stewart tract, east side
of the Washington-Baltimo boule-
ward, Berwyn; James H. Lee, for an
automobile sales agency on the John
w. Bennett property fronting 4l6
feet on the west side of the same
boulevard, opposite Pontiac street,
Berwyn, and Edward M. Kobe, for
property on Central avenue, miles
from District line, Seat Pleasant.
Industrial E Zonings.
Industrial E zoning was approved
for Walter L. Green and Edward l.,
Lightbown, for one lot, formerly
zoned residential A, along the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad at Fortieth
street, Brentwood, for use as an ice
cream manufacturing plant.
Requests for commercial D zon-
ing, which were denied following
protests of the Park and Planning
Commission on grounds they would
constitute "spot zoning," include
petitions of Queen and Maize
Stevens, for five lots at Sheriff road
and Tuxedo avenue, Englewood, and
Daniel Grimes, for two lots on
Huron street, near Sixty third
street, Fairmont Heights.
Other Projects Approved.
Also approved were the following:
Day nursery permits, subject to
Health Department approval, for
Charles Phelps for the Boy Blue
Day Nursery, 5007 Fifty third place,
Rogers Heights; Feicia Druash, for
9103 Forty-ninth avenue, Branch
vile, and Maybelle o. Blackwell, for
the Cheverly Hills Nursery School,
6215 Inwood street, Cheverly.
Gasoline station permits for DOM
inic Lapelosa for property in the
Beltsville, Terrace subdivision, and
Elmer E. Betterton, for 5403 Marl-
boro pike, Bradbury Heights.