Evening star., 1949-12-22
Fairfax 10 Seek
Funds for Study
OF fSewer Needs
U. S. Loan to Apply
Also to Plans for
School Expansion

The Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors and the Falls Church
School Board yesterday voted to
apply for Federal funds for plan
ming futures sanitation and school
construction projects.
The county proposes to have
engineering studies made of the
feasibility of installing sewer and
water systems in three areas
Tauxemont, in Mount Vernon dis
trict; the Annandale- Springfield
area and the present sanitary dis
trict including Mclean.
The city School Board proposes
to make preliminary plans for
expansion Of the high school and
primary school, and final plans to
modernize Madison Elementary
School.
Money Available.
The money is available under
provisions of law passed by Con-
gress last October. Its purpose is
to encourage States and localities
to prepare plans for public works.
Each advance is repayable with
out interest when construction Is
started. If construction is not
started within three years after
receipt of the money and the ad-
ministration determines that the
applicant has not acted in good
faith, prompt repayment will be
demanded.
The county sanitation projects
to be planned at cost of approx
mately $4,000 would be adjacent
to Sanitary District No. /.
The Tauxemont project. tenta-
lively proposed by the sanitary
engineer, would be south of the
sewage treatment plant to be built
at New Alexandria and would in
clude Wellington Village and Hol-
lin Hills.
Annandale Area Plans.
Plans for the Annandale-Spring-
field sanitary area would include
portions of Franconia and Lin
colnia. The Mclean project would
cover property along Chain Bridge
road from Lewinsville to Langley,
as we'll as the Chesterbrook area.
In other business the supervisors
agreed to compromise on recon-
ing to residential of business prop
erty at Shirley highway and Sem
mary road.
The board, after announcing In
October a policy forbidding busi-
ness along the new cross-county
highway had proposed that a A.
acre tract owned by Mark Wink
Ter. district real estate man, be
rezoned to residential. The pro-
perty had been rezoned by the
board three years ago from resi-
Dental to business.
The compromise provides for re-
zoning to residential of the por-
ton of the Winkler property lying
within ITO feet of the Shirley
right -of-way.
System Is Explained.
Operation of a fire control sys-
tenn, approved recently, was ex-
planned by Fire Chief John H.
Carper and Fire Warden Marcel
Pfalzgraf.
Under the plan, persons report
ing fires will call the telephone
operator, who will get in touch
with the Fairfax police station,
the Groveton substation, or Falls
Church police.
From each police station, direct
telephone lines will run to fire
stations within it's territory. A
signal from the police station will
set off the siren and will ring the
telephone at the fire station until
the call is answered.
At present. fires are reported to
the local fire departments. In
many cases, according to Mr..
Pfalzgraf, the call goes to a de-
partment on the same telephone
exchange rather than to the near
est flre-f1ghting unit.
The board denied request for
rezoning from suburban to urban
residence of approximately 13
acres at Leesburg pike and Glen
carlyn road, opposite Culmore
Apartments. The applicant was
the Crestwood Construction Corp.
Arlington.
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