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PTiMete0rges
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Rezoning Pleas
Special Ordinances
To Be Studied at
Hearing Tomorrow

n,issioners will consider II applica-
tions for rezoning and eight petit
tions fer special ordinances In their
monthly zoning hearings at 10 am
tomorrow In the County Service
Building. Hyattsville.
Tomorrow's hearings will consti-
tute the second meeting in two
days for the commissioners, who
must also convene Thursday in Up
per Marlboro TO hold the county's
first open budget hearings. The
commissioners were holding their
regular weekly board meeting today
in the County Courthouse, Upper
Marlboro.
Communities and areas in which
torporrow's zoning problems are in
volved include West Hyattsville,
Seat Pleasant, .Riverdale, Beltsville,
Mount Rainier, Bladensburg, Glen
orden, Colmar Manor, Suitland,
lew Hampshire View near Takoma
Park, Kenilworth, Melrose Park,
cottage City. Berwyn and Brent
yood.
Plea Previously Rejected.
Among rezoning applications to be
considered Is one for reclassification
Of property from residential A to
-esidential c for apartment use,
near West Hyattsville, which was
rejected by the same commissioners
last July 16 following protests from
residents Of that area. The appli-
can't is Daisy L. Lanhardt, who
seeks rezoning Of a 10-acre tract,
fronting 311 feet on the south side
OF Hamilton street and extending
nearly 1,400 feet In depth to the
Northwest Branch.
The Hyattsville City Council last
night went on record opposing this
rezoning. Although the council has
no Jurisdiction over the tract, 1t was
brought out at the meeting that the
rezoning would affect homes in the
city limits.
Seven applicants seek commercial
D zoning, with one, the East Wash
ington Railway Co., also requesting
industrial e zoning in the same petit
tion. The railway company is ask
ing for reclassification of two ad-
joining strips of property, bounded
by Eastern avenue and Fade street,
near Roosevelt avenue, Seat Pleas
ant.
Other commercial zoning is re-
quested by Emma Hagwel, for two
lots at 6008 Rhode Island avenue,
Riverdale; Ralph w. Powers, attor-
ney, for two lots on Odell road,
Roby's Addition to Beltsville; James
D. Williams, ST., Inc, for six lots in
Glenarden; Walter L. Green and
Leo J. Naughton, for property on the
north side of Suitland road, near
Lacey avenue, Suitland; Walter L.
Green, for one lot on the Wash
ington-Baltimore boulevard, near
Oliver street, Riverdale, and William
r. Ford, for property located on the
northwest corner of New Hampshire
View and East-West highway, near
Takoma Park.
Residential B Zoning South.
Rezoning from residential A to
residential B for two-family dwell
ing use is requested in two appli-
cations. These are the petitions of
Ralph H. Wagner for 10 lots in the
4400 and 4500 blocks of Thirty
fourth street, Mount Rainier, and
Ralph w. and M. Minerva Wyman,
lor two lots of 40l1 Newton street,
Colmar Manor.
Industrial E classification for
more than 5 acres, near Upshur
street and the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad, Bladensburg, is sought BY
T. Hammond Welsh, jr., agent fol-
the owner of the property.
Requests for permission to oper.
ate private clubs is requested BY
Edward A. Radtke for 81a acre.
at 3501 Kenilworth avenue, neal
Kenilworth, and Brentwood Amer.
lean Legion Post, No. 225, for 370s
Varnum street, Brentwood. Permis.
sion to operate used-car sales lot.
is sought by Dr. Hillary T. Will.
for 4724 Rhode Island avenue, Mel.
rose. Park, and Roger L. De Lung
and Don A. Marchant, for 370l
Thirty-eighth avenue, Cottage City
Permits to operate garages are
asked by Roger L. Lyerly and j. H
Myrick for property on the south.
east side of Chillum road, about
300 feet west of Queens Chapel road
near Mount Rainier, and Sam
Burka, for 4021 Bladensburg road
Colmar Manor. Harvey G. Ma.
chen, agent for Robert S. Carr, il
requesting permission to operate q
gasoline filling station, automobile
repair shop and Salesroom on near
ly 4 acres on the Washington Balti-
more boulevard, at Hollyroad, Ber-
wyn.
The Brentwood Mount Rainier
Cooperative Kindergarten is seek
ing permission to operate 380l-0a
Eastern avenue, Mount Rainier
The property now is zoned for resi-
dental A use.
Virginia U. Group Seeking
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