Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
|'batt|eof Bills
lover PLANNING
up Next Week
Three Measures
Scheduled for
Maryland Hopper
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star stan Correspondent

| ANNAPOLIS. Feb. 1.-THE
stage will be set next week for
the 1857 version of the fight
over reorganization Of the Mary
Iland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Bills representing two differ
ent approaches to this perennial
problem already have been in
troduced in the House and a
third measure is to go into the
hopper next week. The legis-
Ilation goes back to the joint
Montgomery and Prince Georges
County delegation for recon-
mendation to the full House.
Delegate Margaret c. Schwein-
haut. Democrat of Montgomery,
introduced two bills yesterday
to authorize a separate Mont
gomery County planning COM
mission. She would retain the
present bi-county commission to
furnish planning services to
Prince Georges County and carry
out park acquisition develop
ment in both counties.
Mrs. Schweinhaut, who has
been an outspoken opponent of
retaining the bi-county or re-
gional planning structure of the
present commission, said her bill
represents a true compromise
between those who would abolish
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
and those who would extend and
strengthen this bi : county
agency"
Lee-WilkinSOn Bill
Delegation Chairman Blair Lee
III of Montgomery and Perry O..
Wilkinson of Prince Georges
earlier introduced a bill to retain
the bi-county structure of the
present commission. It would
increase the membership from
8 to 10. all locally appointed,
and provide that the five COM
missioners from each county
serve as county planning boards
for the county governments.
The bill to be introduced next
week by Delegate Hervey G..
Machen. Democrat of Prince
Georges. will embody the main
features of the reorganization
proposal of the commission it,
self. Membership would be in
creased from six to IL, with the
Governor retaining reappoint-
ments and four each being named
by the local governing bodies Of
Montgomery and Prince Georges.
The county-appointed members
would serve as local planning
boards.
One of Mrs. Schweinhaut's bills
is Statewide in effect, amending
the express powers act to author
ize chartered counties to estab-
lish local planning commissions.
This measure was referred to the
House Judiciary Committee.
@. O. p. Control
The planning commission is
now controlled by Republicans
by virtue of Gov. McKeldin's APP
pointmentS. Democrats control
the local government and legis-
lative delegations from Mont
gomery and Prince Georges.
The Montgomery delegation
yesterday introduced bill aimed
at settling long standing disputes
between the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission and
the government of Prince e.
Georges and Montgomery over
who should pay when water and
sewer lines have to be relocated
in county road projects.
The measure provides that
existing disputes be wiped of the
books by each side paying half
In the future. however. this for
mula would apply: The sanitary
commission would pay for re-
locations caused by construction
projects on existing roads; the
counties would pay for reloca-
tons caused by new road con-
struction.