Evening star., 1962-02-08
Contract
On nWaterfront
Up dt Hearing
Agency Proposes
To Pay $50, 900 ,
For ConsuItunts
BY ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

The Districts urban renewal
agency is preparing to enter
into $60,000-a-year contract
with a nonprofit citizen cor
poration for help in carrying
out reconstruction of the
Maine avenue waterfront.
The Redevelopment Lam
Agency yesterday announced it
would hold a public hearing on
the proposal before the contract
is signed.
The citizen group would act
as advisory consultant to the
agency for one year, with the
possibility the contract would
be extended.
The conSultant corporation
already has been set up under
auspices of the Federal City
Council.
Headed by Nutting
Chairman is DR.. Charles B.
Nutting, dean of George Wash
ington University'S National
Law Center. Among trustees are
Commissioner Walter N. To-
briner, president of the board
of District Commissioner, and
Mrs. James H. Rowe, jr., chair
man of the National Capital
Planning Commission.
This would be a service con-
tract under which the nom
profit corporation would act in
an advisory capacity" Phil A.
Doyle, RIA executive director,
said today.
The proposal that such help
be obtained was made by John
R. Searles, jr., Mr.. Doyle's pred
ecessor as the agency's staff di-
rector.
Under the arrangement, an
agency spokesman said, the
consultant could recommend
notifications of the waterfront
urban renewal plan, advise on
automobile, parking and board
walk questions, make recon-
mendations on the location of
business sites that would take
into account priorities for dis
places, recommend procedures
for selection of redevelopers
and make evaluations of their
proposals, assist in the CO.
ordination of both public and
private facilities, and help set
up a time schedule for recon-
Struction.
Final decisions would be
made by the redevelopment
agency, however.
Decision to hold a public
hearing on the contract was
made yesterday by the agency's
board.
Bulkhead Work to Start
"The objective of the agency
is to create on the waterfront
a handsome center of recrea-
tional interest appropriate to a
unique location in the Nations
Capital" the board explained.
Mr.. Doyle said he expected
work of the consultant would
hasten reconstruction by prior
ity holders who wish to re-
establish places of business.
Some priority rights are estab-
lished by law.
Bids will be requested later
this month for construction of
a new bulkhead along the wa
ter's edge. The agency expects
work on this to start soon after
April Is. The new bulkhead will
extend the shoreline about 100
feet into the channel for a
lenght of more than three
fifthS of mile. Thus addi-
tional land area for use as
waterfront sites will be created.
Besides DR.. Nutting, Com
missioner Tobriner and Mrs.
Rowe, trustees of Washington
Channel Waterfront, Inc, the
nonprofit corporation, include:
Frank j. Bell, recently re-
tired chairman of the board
of B. F. Saul Co., a real estate
firm; Charles C. Koones, presi-
dent, KooneS & Montgomery,
Inc; John A. Logan, president
of John A. Logan Associates;
Brig. Gen. Theodore M. Os-
borne, USA Engineers (retiredD i,
executive vice president and
secretary, West Brothers Brick
Co.; Andrew Parker, president,
Woodward & Lothrop, Inc, and
a former RIA board member;
Hilyard R. Robinson, architect;
j. C. Turner. president. Gen.
trail Labor Council, and Robert
w. Wilson, vice president, Po-
tomac Electric Power Co.