Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-19
Counties tOGei
Voice inChOiCe
OF U. 5. Sites
BY LEE FLOR
Star Staff Writer

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A key step in implementing
the corridor-city concept Of the
Year 1000 Plan has been APP
proved by Federal planning
agencies.
The suburban governments
and their local planning agen-
cies will be given a chance to
participate In selecting loca-
tons for new office buildings
for the quarter of a million
new Government workers ex-
pected in the next 40 years.
The new Federal offices are
expected to be the anchors in
new community centers Of U.s.
900 to $4,000 population, To-
Gated along rapid transit lines
and regional treeways through
out the 1000 : square mile
Washington area, as proposed
by the Year 1000 Plan.
The suburban governments
and local planning agencies
will participate in the selection
process for land for the new
office buildings in co-opera-
ton with the National Capital
Planning Commission and the
National Capital Regional
Planning Council.
A guideline for the site-se-
lection process previously was
approved by the planning COM
mission in executive session. It
was made public after its APP
proval by the regional PLAN
ming council at its monthly
meeting yesterday.
To List Sites
Officials said the new pro-
cedure for site selection in part
is the result Of a request for
Qualification of procedures Is
months ago by william H.
Moss, Fairfax County super
visor, who now is chairman Of
the council.
The local governments and
planning agencies are to make
up a list Of sites for Federal
installations, checking to make
sure the office buildings con-
form to local master plans.
If the local agencies recon-
mend sites that are not near
transit lines or freeways, Fed
eral officials then could ask
Federal agencies to select other
building sites that would
strengthen the corridor-city
concept.
The partnership process"
already has been cleared with
the Budget Bureau. 1t con-
forms with President Ken
nedy's instructions in his
memorandum last November
indorsing the Year 1000 Plan.
Months Of Consideration
The regional council ap-
proved the guideline yesterday
after brief discussion. 1t was
an anticlimax to months of
executive session consideration
Of the process.
The new partnership proc
esS" will thus involve local
governments at two critical
points in the decision making
process-in the initial selection
Of sites and in the final review
Of the two primary choices.
The council also tentatively
approved moves by Rockville
and Somerset to participate in
the Federal open-space pro-
gram to purchase recreational
land.
Individual delegates and al
ternates to the council also
criticized a report on planning
community centers.
The report, by Alan M. voor-
hees & Associates and Rog-
ers. Taliaferro. Kostritsky &
Lamb, was intended to COM
plement three reports which
have to be finished later. The
consultants' work was designed
to be a general guide for re-
gional, subregional and local
planners for the corridor cities
recommended by the Year 200C
Plan.
@. Louis Heller, director Of
the regional council, said the
report on Fairfax Center" wa.
not an actual proposal fol
Fairfax City. It was intended
to be an example Of the new
corridor cities throughout the
region, he said.
James Woods, chairman o.