Evening star., 1948-01-15
zoners Conditional|y
Approve House for
Ballet School Use

Conditiona, permission for estab-
lishment of a school of ballet in a
49, room house at 3515 Wisconsin
avenue NV. was granted yesterday
by the District Board of zoning
Adjustment.
The property involved is the home
Of Mrs. Ada M. Strickland. Mary
Day and Lisa Gardiner, owners of
the Washington School Of Ballet
at 1928 Window place NV, SAID
they planned to purchase the home
and transfer their school there, II
zoning and building arrangements
are made to suit their requirements.
The board ruled that the school
may be established in the Wiscon-
sin avenue home, if the number of
students does not exceed Is at any
one time, if no classes are held after
7:30 pm. and if no changes are
made in the building exterior.
Rehearing Deferred.
A rehearing was deferred by the
board on an appeal of the Chesa-
peake g. Potomac Telephone Co.
for a change from the 110-foot
height restriction to permit addi-
tions to the telephone building at
723-725-727 Thirteenth street NV.
In other actions taken after
hearings yesterday the board:
l. Granted an appeal of the Sin
clair Refining Co. on behalf of
Benjamin E. Skinker for permission
to set up an automobile repair shop
in connection with an existing gas
oline station at 4444 Connecticut
avenue NV.
2. Granted an appeal by Aimee
Reuchlin for change from the
side-yard requirements of the re-
stricted A area to permit erection
Of a one-story side addition to the
dwelling at 3430 Thirty fourth place
NV.
3. Granted an appeal of Jennie
Morris for permission to change a
retail food store to a delicatesSen
at 246 Twelfth street NE.
4. Deferred an appeal of the
Washington Baseball Club for per-
mission to make first commercial
use for storage of property at the
rear of 2014 Fifth street NV.
Appeal Denied. :
5. Denied an appeal of Herbert
Saunders for change from lot oc-
cupancy and rear yard requirements
of the C area to permit completion
Of existing construction in violation
of zoning regulations at 61s T street
NV.
6. Granted an appeal of Donald
L. Brown for permission to extend
permitted apartment use Is feet into
adjoining restricted A area at the
southwest corner of Fourteenth
street and Whittier pace NV.
I. Granted an appeal of Isador
Young for permission to erect an
apartment house with public storage
garage, the entrance to which is
located less than IS feet from the
building line, at 6040 Fourteenth
street NV.
8. Granted an appeal of Anthony
Tucci for a change from use pro-
visions in the residential district to
permit use of a building in the rear
Of 920 o street NV. as a warehouse.
Appeal Granted.
g. Granted an appeal of Lawrence
M. Bichell for permission to change
a nonconforming use from car
penter shop to an electrical repair
shop, but denied a request for ex-
tension of the use to include the first
floor at the rear Of 13l1-l313 Tenth
street NV.
10. Deferred an appeal Of George
Glekas for permission to build a
private garage less than 20 feet from
the building line at the southeast
corner of Thirteenth street and
Kalmia road NV.
IL. Granted for one year an appeal
of Morris Gewirz for permission to
set up a private school at 2480 Six
teenth street NV.
IL. Deferred an appeal of George
Hyman, Sadie Hyman and Leah
Rome for permission to establish
professional Offices at 1016 Sixteenth
street NV.
Members of the board are Theo-
dore I. Coe, John Nolen. jr.; Robert
O. Clouser, Culver B. Chamberlain
and Samuel scrivener, tr.
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