Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-02

SIruCClOn even closer TO down.
town, the commission added.
The, realty organization
sought changes that would
make apartment buildings more
economically feasible by al
lowing from two to three more
stories than are permitted by
present regulations.
In discussing the proposal
staff members indicated they
feared traffic congestion would
result from higher density
construction.
The area in question is
bounded generally by Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Florida
and Rhode Island avenues, and
extends east to Fourteenth
street NV.
Some parts now more literally
zoned are experiencing a
small boom.
Major coming changes should
await completion of a com.
prehensive plan" the staff ex-
poets to have completed by
1854, the organization decided
Shaping Own Plan
Two years hence, NCPC said
1t will have its own rezoning
suggestions based on that plan
and a community renewal
program" it now has in the
works.
ANY major rezoning of an
area as large as that proposed
would have an adverse effect
on the proposals of Downtown
Progress to get apartment con-
struction started in the Mount
Vernon Square area" the COM
mission remarked.
Downtown Progress is the
popular name for the Nationa
Capital Downtown Committee
Inc, which recently proposed
an action program" to revive
the downtown area by usins
urban renewal powers.
The commission YESTERDAY
also approved the result o.
sharp bargaining by the Ma
tional Parks Service which
gained additional parkland a
a gift from the. Italian syndi
cate planning the $50 million
Watergate Towne development
facing the Potomac River.
The 23,500 square feet of lane
will allow widening the parl
strip between the Foggy Bot
tom development and the river
The strip extends from the
intersection of the parkway
and Virginia avenue to the
parkway intersection at F
street. It is just north of the
proposed national cultural CEN
ter site4 The strip will now av-
erage rs feet wide.
In addition to the land given
by Societa Immobiliare Gen
erale, the Park Service will OBJ
tain 7,750 feet as a result OF
the proposed closing OF
Twenty seventh street NV.
In other actions, the plan
ming group:
l. Rejected a plea from one
faction of Georgetown citizens
that staff work on a sketch
plan for Georgetown water
front renewal be resumed and,
instead, urged the neighbour
hoods citizens to "get together
and give us some consensus of
development policies for the
area"
2. Approved realignment OF
one section of the Potomac
River freeway to make unnec-
essary the extension of the
freeway on piers into the Po-
tomac River at Key Bridge.
Under the revised design ex-
planned by District Highway
Director Harold L. Aitken, the
new eastbound freeway will run
beneath the existing - and
eventually to become west
bound-Whitehurst freeway.
The double-decked section
will extend from Thirty-third
and Thirty-Sixth street, run
ming along Georgetown's K
street and requiring a change
in location of railroad tracks
now traversing that street.
Revised Land Map
3. Approved revisions in the
Shipstead-Luce Acts land-map
defining areas facing or abut-
ting Federal buildings, parks
and other areas where build
ing plans are subject to rec
concentrations of the Fine Arts
Commission. Changes would ex-