Evening star., 1950-06-12
.PrinceGeorees
Rezoning Wins
Park Board OK.
l0Chonees Approved;
Deniols of Two Pluns
Are Recommended

Rezoning of 10 properties in
Prince Georges County. including
one petition for apartment claSsi-
fication and two seeking SEMI
detached home use, have been rec
commended by the Maryland Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The agency reported today it
also was recommending to the
county commissioners that two re-
quests for commercial Eoning be
denied, These involve properties
in Defense Heights and in Chapel
Oaks.
The apartment zoning is sought
by William A. Holbrook for two
adjoining lots. having a frontage
Of 100 feet along the north side
OF College avenue. between Hop
kinS avenue and Rhode Island
avenue. College Park.
Applicants for the semidetached
home zoninRs. which falls under
the R-35 category. are J, Theodore
Crown and Van Moreland. owners
Of approximately 40 acres along
the north side OF F street. adja-
cent to Carmody Hills, and Waldo
M. Ward. petitioner for the Tall
bert tract on Indian Head high
way, adjacent to Forest Heights.
Now Rural Residential.
The first request seeks reSoninE
OF property having l,000-foot
frontage along F street and ex-
tending about 200 in depth to @
point near the George N. Palmer
highway. The property now 10
zoned as rural residential, Tho
Gregory Estates apartment devel.
opment is to the north. Both ape
plicants are municipal officials in
the town of Seat Pleasant. Mr..
Moreland is the Mayor and Mr..
Crown the town treasurer.
| On the second petition. the
planning agency recommended
that only part Of Mr.. Wards
property be re2oned. with that
portion Immediately next TO For
est Heights remaining in the R-53
single-home category.
The following petitions were
recommended for denial:
Michael Shapiro. owner. SINGLE
I mily. detached. residential
tR-55 to general commercial
CD. of three parcels fronting
nearly 600 feet on Defense high.
way, near Sixty-fourth avenue,
Defense Heights.
Robert WhiStine, R-55 to local
commercial eC-D. OF one lot on
Fifty-seventh place. near Oats
street, 'Chapel Oaks.
Among those recommended for
tapproval was n petition by aohn
j. Widmayer seeking reRoning
from R-55 to IL 'tlight indus
triaD, of four lots on Otis street.
between Oak lane and Wells ave-
niue, Mount Rainier.
Commercial Petitions Approved.
Six petitions for commercial
coming also were recommended
for approval. They were:
Edward Volland. R-b6 to C-l CoeaD,
| OF property at the southwest corner OF
Chillum and Queens Chapel roads, Mount
| Rainier.
| Mercedes NJ. Payne, Leila q. Bell By
maker and Eueene l.. Fabrit1. R-5b 10
C-l uocan. OF three lots on the southeast
side OF Rhode Island avenue near Thirty
seventh street, Mount Rainier.
Hartwell Tucker. R-R (rurAl reSidentiaD
| 70 CT 1ocaD, OF property at Liyinsston,
st. Barnabas and Spur roads, Oxon Hill
Marjorie Z. Butt. R-55 to C-l tloean,
OF nearly 10 acres on Indian Head hiah-
way Just south OF the District line. Oxon
Richard A. Hayes, R-S6 to C-l aocal,
OF u acres alonE Indian Head highway,
Immediately south OF the previous prop.
erty.
Carroll R. Mattinsly. R-R rural resi-
dentiaD to c. tgeneraN. Of one acre
OF the Brooks property on 81 BArnabas
road, opposite the Silver Hill Sand A.
Gravel Co. plant, near Silver Hill.