Evening star., 1949-08-03

kuIeS Tor New
Buildings Eased
Zonine Commission
Also Clears Way
For Storage Garages
The Zoning Commission has
amended the zoning regulations to
liberalize off-street parking space
requirements for new building in
the downtown and other heavily
populated areas, it was announced
yesterday.
One change permits the pro-
vision of one parking space for
each IL eficiency-type apartments
where at least one space for each
four or five units were required
previously.
Another clears the way for the
zoning Adjustment Board to ap-
prove construction of a parking
garage near George Washington
University Hospital.
1t was announced that, at its
fall hearing, the commission will
consider the possibility of amend
ing the parking regulations fur
ther by delegating power to the
board to waive or modify the
strict application of parking regu-
lations in cases where economic
hardship or other unusual factors
warrant an adjustment"
Objections Heard Last Fall.
The newly approved amend
ments have been in the mill since
July, 1948. AS originally drawn
the proposals drew so much OBJ
lection at a hearing last fall that
the commission deferred action
A parking committee then was
appointed to make recommends
tionS.
At last falls hearing Washing
ton real estate men opposed an
outline setting up a schedule of
exactly how many parking spaces
must be provided for each dwell
ing unit in new construction. The
proposals added number of
categories of buildings to the list
of those already required to pro-
vide off-street parking spaces.
Hearing on a compromise solu-
ton was held in June, and the
approved amendments are largely
in line with the committees rec
concentrations.
The amendments in many cases
relax present regulations regard
ing off-street parking by cutting
down on the number of parking
spaces which each new building
must provide. They also reduce
from 200 square feet to $50 square
feet the amount of space con-
sidered necessary to park an auto
mobile.
Garage Limitation Eased.
One change provides that the
Zoning Adjustment Board under
certain conditions may, permit
erection Of an automobile park
ing garage, in which repair facili-
ties are incidental to it's primary
use for storage. in some resi-
Dental areas.
At the June hearing Maj. Gen.
U. S. Grant III, vice president
Of George Washington Univer-
sity. asked for a change In the
zoning regulations to permit the
university to construct a 500-ca-
pacity parking garage.
He said the parking situation
around the school was rapidly
becoming intolerable" and the
university was losing students and
instructors because of it.
The off street parking area re-
luirements are now set up as
follows:
Single-family dwelling. one
parking space for each dwelling
unit; flats, one space for each two
'dwelling units; lodging, rooming
or boarding houses, hotels, one
space for each 10 guest bedrooms;
private clubs, fraternity houses
dormintories. one space for each
10 beds.
Regulation in Areas.
Apartment or tenement houses
IN A area districts, one space for
each two dwelling units; in B area
districts, one space for each four
dwelling Units; in C area districts,
one space for each six dwelling
units.
un the c and D area districts,
an exception provides for a ratio
of one space for each IL eff
cheney units. An efficiency unit
is considered as having 750
square feet or less and no bed
roomS)
Hospitals, one space for each
four beds; sanitariums, GONZALES
cent homes. homes for the aged,
one space for each eight beds; Or
ohanages, eleemosynary institu-
tions, one space for each eight beds,
and high schools, colleges and uni
Versities, one space for each Is
students, based on maximum
planned classroom capacity Of IA
square feet per student, exclusive
II laboratories and workshops.
Corporation CounseIs
Promotion Approved
The Commissioners yesterday