Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
SO Zoning
Pleas Are
On File

NAOlAL6OlllCly SOullly AOll-
ming Board will disqualify
themselves from discussions
of two rezoning applications
for apartment and industrial
uses because of their close, sepa-
rate connections with the tracts
involved.
They are ]. Newton Brewer,
board chairman, whose wife and
her brother have filed for apart
ment coming of 90 acres, and
w. Lawson King, owner of II
acres sought for industrial use
by a science industry.
Altogether. 80 individual ap-
plications for coming changes
were filed with the County by
deadline date, December 81. The
County Council will start public
hearings soon.
Brewer and King, whose
Board must review and make
recommendations to the Coun-
ell on zonings, said this week
that they will disqualify them
selves from discussions and vot-
ing on the two specific applica-
tons.
Brewer said he mad absolute
ly no financial interest" in the
application filed by his wife and
Karl w. Corby, for a change to
Rio or R-3O coming of a tract
now zoned R-90. 1t is located
West of the Rockville Pike,
North Of Grosvenor la. and
East Of new u. S. 240.
He pointed out the land is part
of a huge estate left his wife
and her brother by their late
grandfather, c. l. Corby, bakery
magnate who formerly owned
the palatial home on Rockville
Pike, now called st. Angela Hall.
1t is occupied by an order of
Catholic Nuns, Sisters of The
Holy Cross.
Karl COrby is a builder, Brew.
er said Corbyx ather than his
sister, was the iriitiator of plans
to build ON the site located to
the North of Pooks Hill inter
change, according TO Brewer.
Additionally, Brewer said he
had no comments to make on
the mounting issue of apart
ment building at this time.
Meanwhile, w. Lawson King,
Planning Board member and
dairyman with large land hold
ings in the County, similarly
said he would refrain from con-
sidering an application by
Washington archaeological Asso-
ciates, Inc, to rezone 76 acres
to the new Industrial Park zone.
VITA, he explained, is con-
tract-purchaser of the land at
the Northeast quadrant of
Shady Grove I'd. and U. S. 240.
King owns IL of these acres.
j. E. Troth owns the remainder,
King said. Should the zoning
not be granted, the sale would
be called off, he said.
King added that in WTA's
conditional sales contract, he
spelled out that he would have
no responsibility nor obligation
10 see that industrial coming was
granted.
WTA's request for Industrial
Park coming was one of four
filed with the County. The Up,
or rs (light) industrial zone
is brand new, having received
County Council approval only
last November IL.
Broadly, the new zone sets up
standards of industrial perfor-
nance and occupancy that rule
out other than so-called garden
industries" Noise, heat. odor,
radioactivity, vibrations, and
many other physical products
of industry are rigidly con-
trolIed in the new ordinance.
Other three 10 applicants:
. Ralph J. Duffie, contract
owner Of an 85.4-acre tract,
zoned R-40 and R-9O, in the
Southeast quadrant of old Co
1umbia I'd. and Colesville rd.,
White Oak.
. Lawrence L. Levin, appIi-
cant for 97.5 acres now zoned
Rural-Residential, West OF Old
Georgetown rd.. South of the
proposed Outer Circumferential
Highway not far West of Rock
vile Pike.
The County Council which
ION its own motion instituted 10
zonlng Of 93.2-acre tract West
Of Metropolitan Grove I'd.
North Of Ri lit, and South Of
the B&O Railroad tracks.
Now zoned RuralResidential,
the land was the subject of
heavier. IL coming sought by
Andrew l.. Devlin, Christian
Heurich, IT, and Jonathan S.
England Several weeks ago
the trio asked the Council to let
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