Evening star., 1948-10-21
.Chi||um Groups Win
.zoning Fight Against
4O8-Unit Apartment

4O8-Unit Apartment
! Residents of the Chillum, Md,
area breathed easier today after
winning their fight against a pro-
posed 408-unit apartment project
within their community.
Construction of an apartment
development on approximately 81
acres on Riggs road, near Chillum
road, adjoining the Chillum Ter
race subdivision, was blocked yes
terday when the Prince Georges
County commissioners refused to
rezone the tract for such use.
The rezoning request was among
IA applications for property reclassi-
f1cation considered by the commits
sioners during their monthly zoning
hearings at the County Service
Building, Hyattsville. Seven petit
tons for zoning ordinances permit
ting special use of property also
were heard with final action or
two of these being withheld until
IL am. Tuesday at Upper Marlboro
Six Requests Approved.
Of the remaining rezo:ling ap-
plications. one for apartment CLASH
f1cation, three for commercial, one
for industrial and for tWo-family
dwelling use were approved A
request for industrial coming of
another tract also was denied, with
five commercial applications and
one for industrial use being con-
tinued until later dates. Ordinances
approved included two permitting
operation of two gas stations, two
day nurseries and a used car sales
lot
The application Of Harry O.
PeretSky, owner, for the Chillum
apartment coming was protested by
officials of the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission and by a delegation of
about 40 persons representing civic
groups and private house owners
of Chillum and surrounding areas.
Fred w. Tuemmler, planning
director for the Prince Georges
County regional Office of the Park
and Planning Commission. said the
property, which fronts about 700
feet on the north size Of Riggs road.
was listed for one-family-type resi-
Dental homes in his agency's pro-
posed master zoning plan for the
county. The protesting citizens
charged that apartments would only
add to already overcrowded school
conditions within the area. They
also claimed that property evalua-
ton Of their homes would decrease
with apartments in their midst.
$4,000 Homes In Area,
Attorney T. Howard Duckett, who
represented Mr.. Peretsky, reported
his client had already built some
80 individual home sselling between.
SIS 900 and $4,000 in the same area
which have not been selling any
too fast. He contended the land
was too expensive to leave idle"
The only other rejected applica-
ton was that of the Coco Steel
Products Corp. which sought indus
trial E zoning for four lots extend
ing from Addison road to r street,
Beaver Heights. A delegation of six
persons appeared in protest.
Action taken on other epplica-
tions included:
Marion r w..fl waPrRoyED; se.nEl Residential,
IesioentlaI for apartment use. Of ap-
proximately 5 acres at 1901 Silver Hill.
resdensia M snd Mrs Elmer x Weller owners
family dwelling use. of three lots on OLD
Landovsr rosa. opposite the entrance TO
A. J. Rath, owner, residential to in
ae4es F. .ss.naD9 81 B9r96 @ 9t
parallel to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road tracks south Of the highway over
pass, Beltsville Ohe remainder OF the tract
T. Raymond Burch. John +. 1sureh' Bureh and
re 1ssideniisi 4 to Commercial D. Of two lots I;
similar rezoninR for the westerly porS
% oi ohe T.e lots In rear Of the
mendation Of the Park and Planning
Commissionl
owner, residential A to commercial d. Of
properly on Suitland road at Ewing ave-
Regina T. and Joseph W. Wiser, owners.
residential A to commercial D, OF property
at the southeast corner Of Edrnonston
avenue Avenue, and Emerson street, Rogers
Hubert Z: Mills, permission to operate
2 gas station at 6457 Marlboro pike, Oak
Edward X. Allen. permission to operate
gas station at 23 Riggs road, Chilum.
Mrs. Robert T. Neibrook, permission to
operate q day nursery at 522 Seventy
third street. Carmody Hills tsubject to
Health Department APPROVAL.
Gertrude D. Cronin, permission to oper-
street BeIiemead. t"uih
| George McLeish, agent permission to
operate a used-car sales lot at 47OO De-
fense highway, BladensburR.
CONTINUED.
William Z. Taliaferro. owner. residen-
tlal to commercial D. of five lots in
the 4200 block OF Lawrence street, Col
mar Manor postponed until November
Hervey g; ,Machen, agent, residential
to, industrial E. of q acres next to the
Northwest Branch between Edmonston
road and Baltimore boulevard, near Hy-
attsyille (postponed until November IL.
William 2. Hawkins, Albert and Pearl
Haley four separate petitions seeking re-
coming from residential to commercial
Q, for total of Is lots in the vicinity
of street and Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
avenues. Hillside postponed until De-
ayat.svilie Kiindersartsn Association,
Schools At eeo dasn Street ssd tse
Forty-second place, both in Hyattsville
init Hyattsville city Council to make It's
rscommenda .ions)