Evening star., 1954-10-21

crowd Cries Down
Planners Opposition
Ii RiyerdoIe Case
Rezoning Of 3 tWo-acre tract
In the Riverdale area to make.
possible an ight-classroom adj
dition to q parochial school today
has the sanction Of the some
what non-plussed Prince Georges
County Commissioners.
The county heads. accustomed
to crowds Of noisy objectors,
were startled yesterday when
more than 500 persons overflow
ing their Hyattsvilie hearing
room shouted approval Of the
change.
Opposition to the petition filed
by the Most Rev. Patrick A..
O'Boyle. archbishop Of WASH
ington, was entered by the Mary
land National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, but the
delegation bowled it over.
The application asked reclas-
sification from residential to
commercial Of $4,000 square feet
Of vacant land on the southeast
side Of Rivedale road near Ed
monston road and st. Bernard
Church and school.
Sale Contemplated.
The Rev. Thomas Dade. pas
tor Of the church, told the board \
rezoning Of the tract would in
sure sale Of the property for at
least $4,000. Profits would be
used, he said, to help build
the elementary school addition.
thereby saving the county $780,
600 it might otherwise have TO
expend for school facilities.
Father Dade said q huge
supermarket and other CONNER
cial enterprises would occupy the
site.
In q written report. the plaa-
ming commission said:
"Our staff can see no juStifi-
cation for placing this tract In
the commercial zone. it
would, In our opinion. be pre-
mature and unnecessary coma
mercial coming. On the north
side Of Riverdale road. opposite
st. Bernard school. are several
very fine dwellings. To reclas-
sify this property would be set
ting q precedent for the reclas-
sification OF properties on the
north side Of Riverdale road.
Sees Deterioration.
"If this were to happen" the
planners said, there would be
commercially zoned properties on
both sides Of Riverdale road for
. distance Of about one-quarter
mile east of the intersection at
Edmonston. This amount Of conn
mercial zoning Is not needed and
would serve only to deteriorate
residential development along
the north side Of Riverdale
road"
The commissioners indorsed
seven other coming requests, de-
MED two and granted six use
permits.
Approved were petitions filed
by BENJAMIN Nusbaun and Nor
ris Weinstein for commercial
coming Of residential property on
the southeast side of New Hamp-
shire avenue, near the intersec-
tion Of Ethan Allen drive and
East-West highway: Arlene M.
Ward, land on TaIbert drive,
Forest Heights, from residential
to commercial.
Also. Wilda Mae and Earl
Weygapdt, one lot in Lakeland,
College Park, residential to in
dustrial: Charles L. and Helena
T. Edmonds. property on Kenil-
worth avenue, Bladensburg, resi-
dential-commercial; Bernard J.
Coyle and Martin r. Mccarthy,
i've lots on Marlboro pike near
Forty eighth avenue, residential
to commercial: Interstate Van
Service. Inc, land in Riverdale
Park. commercial to industrial.
Requests Denied.
Denied were requests OF Page
r. and Pauline Tucker for q
shift from residential to COM
mercial Of property on the north
side Of Allentown road, Camp
Springs. and the petition Of Felix
L. Sutton, agent, for rezoning
from residential to commercial
to industrial Of land on the
south side Of Windon road. Blad-
ensburg.
Use permits for i've gasoline
filling stations were approved for
Jack Coopersrnith. intersection Of
Maryland boulevard and George
Palmer highway; Emory N.
Thrift, Greenbelt road and
Rhode Island avenue; Julius
Fleischmann, Branch avenue and
Suitland parkway; College Park
shopping center, Baltimore ave-.
nue. and Hardwick road, and
Burch Properties. Edgewood road
and Rhode Island avenue.
The board also approved the
application Of Aubrey e. Grethe
for permission to use property at
9400 Franklin avenue. Sealbrook,
for q private swimming pool.
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To Air Delinquency
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