Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-06-06
CountyCounci|
To View Tract
In zoning Row
Members Will Visit
Disputed Site on
Bradley Boulevard
By CHARLES L. HOFFMAN

lined Wisconsin avenue between
the District line and Bradley
boulevard is expected to be de-
cided tomorrow by the Mont
gomery County Council.
The council is slated to make
an on-the-spot inspection of a
1.2-acre tract at the southwest
corner of Wisconsin avenue and
boulevard.
A change from the residential
classification to commercial use
of the land is proposed, report
eddy for the purpose of erecting
a hotel there.
Granting of the application,
would throw the land
open to use for a number of
commercial uses, including re-
tail stores or filling stations.
Move Holly Opposed
Residents of the area, bitterly
opposed to the application, say
its granting would pave the way
for the commercialization of the
avenue south to the District line.
Residents in the past have been
able to hold the Bethesda BUSH
ness line at Bradley boulevard.
AS late as last week, some
councilmen were reported lean
ing toward the commercial grant
despite a recommendation from
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
that the application be disap-
proved.
The zoning decision is one of
two major ones still hanging
fire as the council winds up its
first semiannual coming period
The other concerns proposed
change from two-acre to half
acre building lots on ISL acres
at Falls road and Macarthur
boulevard near Potomac.
The rezoning is bitterly op-
posed by area residents and has
been recommended for disap-
proval by the planning commits
sion. Another on-the-spot in
spection is slated for this site
before council action.
IL Pleas OveFruled
During the last three months
the council has overruled IL
p ! inning commission recon.
mendations plus an additional
recommendation from the COM
missions technical staff.
The upsets came as the coun-
Gil granted 40 applications fol-
intensified land uses and denied
only 10.
The council also has permitted
z applications-some highly con-
troversial - to be withdrawn
without prejudice and one with
prejudice.
The Withdrawals without pre-
JUDGE" permit the applicants to
escape the 18-month limitation
between filings on the same piece
of property.
Seven Dissents Filed
In seven of the decisions, dis
senting opinions have been filed
by minority councilmen with
Councilman Robert T. Snure
being a party to six of them.
In one case. property in the
Woodmont Triangle rezoned
from medium density to high
density use-increasing its value
now is being considered by the
council as possible site of a pro-
posed new county building for
the Bethesda area.
The rezoning was granted over
objection of the planning COM
mission.
The council rezoned 27.2 acres
along the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad tracks south of Rockville
for light industrial use and as
part of a package proposal also
granted 60-foot lot sizes for q
acres adjoining it.
The council has granted "a ap-
|plications for commercial recon-
ing including II non-contro-
versial ones in the Woodmont
Triangle being pushed as a new
business section for Bethesda.
Two granted on the Rockville
pike south of the Rockville city
limits were scored as strip zon-
ling" by Mrs. Stella B. Werner
j. Grahame Walker and Mr.
ISnure.
Labeled as "Spot coming" BY
IdiSsenterS were the commercial
Irezoning of a triangular tract
bounded by the Kensington-
Wheaton road, Lexington street
and Perry avenue. in Kensington
and multi-family use of a hous'
at jackson and Boyd avenues
Takoma Park.