Evening star., 1951-01-17
Hearing Slated
On Changes in
zoning Law
County Council Also
To Hear Citizens on
Sidewalk Assessment.

SIQSWQIk ASSSSSWSNtS
Public hearings will be held next
month in Montgomery County tc
help settle a controversial pro-
posal for zoning law changes and
to determine how to assess Ger
tain Silver Spring property owners
for sidewalk improvements.
At it's meeting yesterday ir
Rockville. the County Council
scheduled a hearing at pm. Feb
ruary 81 on the question of lib
eralizing rooming house regula-
tions in residential A zones. Un.
der this proposal. guestrooms ir
single-family dwellings could bt
rented to two roomers, a prac-
tice now forbidden.
The proposal also would permir
temporary use of single-family
dwellings as rooming houses fol
up to nine paying guests, upor
approval of the Board of Zonine
Appeals. The hearing site has moi
been selected, but will be either
Silver Spring or Bethesda.
S31,820 for Sidewalks.
The other hearing set yesterday
concerns property owners alone
Georgia avenue, from Colesvillt
road to the northerly subdivision
line of Woodside Village on the
east, and on the west side from
Colesville road to the intersection
with Brookeville road. It is pro-
posed to assess abutting property
owners the 1920 cost of side
walk project from which they will
benefit. This hearing is sched-
uled at 8 pm. February 6 at Rock
vile.
County Manager Irving G. Nc
Nayr recommended that property
owners be required to pay half the
cost. The Montgomery County
Civic Federation, by close vote,
favored full payment by the abut-
ting owners.
The council was assured yester-
day that Montgomery County
planners are obtaining informa-
tion which should help anticipate
the effects of the pending Federal
dispersal program.
Progress in Conferences.
In a report as chairman of the
Upper Montgomery Planning Com
mission, Thomas c. Kelley dis
closed his group has made progress
in conferences being conducted
with representatives of the Gen.
eral Services Administration.
Mr.. Kelley, who was member
of the last County Council. ex-
pressed conviction that the rela-
tionship established with GSA
"can work to our advantage in
the prevention of the placing of
such Federal agencies in locations
where the impact would be such
as to destroy productive farm
lands or create water pollution or
produce urban development which
would threaten the water supply
of Montgomery County and the
District of Columbia"
Another progress report was
made to the Council by DR..
Douglas West, chairman of the
Montgomery County Medical Care
Commission. DR.. West is chief
of program operations for the
Hospital Facilities Division, Public
Health Service.
Library Chief Approved.
The council formally approved
the appointment of George Boul-
ton Moreland, jr., 40, as first direc-
tor of the Montgomery County
Department of Libraries at a SAL
ary of $1,000 a year. Mr.. More
land is chief librarian for the Cam
bria Free Library in Johnstown
Pa. From 1946 to 1948, he was
associated with the District Public
Library system, serving for about
q year as head of the circulation
department.. He was selected by
the County Library Board anc
County Manager McNayr from 9
field of 50 applicants.
Other appointments approved
yesterday were as follows: Ken
meth Arnold Hill, 109 Joliet street
S.W. as internal auditor with the
Finance Department, at salary
of $4,000; Lydia Helene Rogers
of Route 4, Rockville, as secretary
with the tree division of the Public
Works Department; Emil Horst
Goede. 12101 GrandvieW avenue,
Silver Spring, as jail cook-guard
and Arthur Daniel Fleming, 304
Monroe street, Rockville, as mail
clerk in the Finance Department
The council granted a three
month extension of leave to
County Attorney David MacDon-
aid, who is recuperating at Warm
Springs. Ga, from infantile pa
raivcic