Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27
Fairfax Rezoninq
Brings Ultinatum
Vienna Demands
Quick Reversal,
Threatens Suits
BY CAROL GRIFFEE
Star staff Writer

~OuIlCll last IlBIlJ NOUeQ uIldIll-
nously to ask Fairfax County's
new board of supervisors to re-
verse five high-density recon-
ngs approved last week by a
anne duck board.
The council, which was
chased from it's Town Hall
meeting place to the firehouse
by an anonymous bomb threat,
wants reversal action to begin
at the new boards first session
January 8.
If the supervisors do not be-
gin proceedings to rezone the
tracts back to their original
clasSifications by January is,
the town attorney will file law
suits against each of the re-
zonings as arbitrary and ca
PRECIOUS" actions of the old
board.
Master Plan Affected
Each of the rezonings, ap-
proved during a two-day period
last week, affects the Upper
Accotink watershed. A master
plan for this area was adopted
in principle" by the super
visors about five months ago
after four years of study. How
ever, sewer surveys and an un-
broken tie vote have kept the
plan from formally being ap-
proved in full.
Acting Mayor L. Dean WAL
lace explained that Vienna is
vitality concerned with the Up
per Accotink development be-
cause, by contractual agreement
with the county. the town will
have to pay part Of the bill for
watershed sewer expansions.
The council and about 40
residents at the special meeting
heard supervisor-elect, John L.
Beerman of Providence district.
pledge that he will move to
have the board start reversal
rezoning procedures January 8.
At least two others on the
seven-member board. Frederick
A. Babson and Harriet Bradley,
are expected to support Mr..
Beerman's action. A fourth
vote will be needed.
Action Denounced
Mr.. Beerman called the old.
boards action "high-handed
and outrageous" and he views
the Upper Accotink plan as
having been destroyed.
Council Member Mrs. Martha
Pennino, who was Vienna's
liaison representative to the
county. said the board was fully
aware that the town had in
dorsed the Upper Accotink plan
with its concept of cluster de-
velopment along radial trans
portation corridors.
"It is inconceivable dis
appointing that these
people could have taken such
shocking action in such q short
period Of time"
Councilman E. F.. Mitchell
said ANY respect" he had held
for the board vanished COM
pletely" in the wake Of the
rezoning which he said were
gross examples Of political
perfidy."
Observer Left Meeting
When the supervisors ap-
proved second apartment apA
plication on Vienna'S boundary
over town opposition last week,
the action prompted Council
man James c. Martinelli to
leave both the meeting and his
post as the towns liaison repre-
sentative.
Mr.. Martinelli's walkout drew
praise from Councilman Alvin
w. Norcroff, who said it re-
Elected the revulsion felt by
thousands of citizens.
Four of the rezonings to
which Vienna objects involve
only apartments. They were
the applications of Undertake
S. McCue and Allan Kay on adj
jacent land along Chain Bridge
road Immediately west Of
Vienna; a three-acre plot on
Hartland road north of Lee
highway, sought by Richard S.
Hannett, and "a acres at Inter
state Route Sc and the Capital
beltway asked by the haywood
Construction Co.
Council Action Supported
The fifth rezoning envi-
stoned apartments, a shopping
center, motel, office buildings
and sportS-convention center
on 81 acres between Lee high
way and Arlington boulevard
a mile east of Fairfax Circle.
The council received unani-
nous support for its action
from the attending residents.
One citizen even suggested
that IF we're going to be
ringed with apartments" then
the town should annex the
land in order to reap some Of
the taxes. Under State law,
Vienna can file an annexation
suit in April or later. -
AS for the bomb threat, Mr..
Wallace explained that the
towns police dispatcher had
received call about two hours
before the council was Sched-
uled to convene and was told
by a husky voice" that a
bomb had been planted in the
town hall.
Fairfax County and Vienna
police and firemen searched
the building but found no