Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 23

. i3 ' representative of truc APPRAISAL BOARD URGED BY GRANT Park Official Would Have Body Aid Value-Fixing in Condemnations. Creation of a board of apprai ®id in fixing values of property in Washington for consideration for Pub- Mc use, was suggested to the Gibson subcommittes of the House committee by Lieut. Col 3d, executive officer Capital Park slon, as a mean: culties encounte sites for parks ing Commis ercoming diffi- n the purchase of result of the con- fon that not more assessed value operty. sion would be com On it would | e the District 3 RBSASSOT, A Tepr: partment of Justice and two residents of the District of Columbia. to be ap pointed by the District Commissioner for & terms of three ve two mnon-official member celve salaries The duty of this board of appraisal | would be to select ited num- | ber of parcels of local re: ite each | year and appraise these, having power | to conduct hearings, administer oat s to real estat values in various sections of the The records wot fice of the Distr ¢ praisal figures would be turn sor, who would mak h them as a basis, sub- Ject to revisions as to incidentals, such as he might deem proper. would Sees Truer Value. Then, when the Government desired | quire the land for public use, essment figures would be more value of the property, it is contemplated, and the Government officer charged with ac- quiring such property would be limit- | ed to an expenditure of not more than | 20 per cent over such assessed valua- | tion | Lieut. Col. Grant took the stand and explained to the committee the diffi- culties surrounding acquisition of land at the present time when it was in the line of city development. T! land, he said, be t soon becomes | improved property, is what should be | placed in the hands of the Govern- ment as soon as possible, but the ex- istence of the limitation thus far has forced the acquisition of property which might well have waited for the future, since it was in sections where development was mnot going forward. and consequently where the values were within the 125 per cent assessed value limitation He said that the average price paid far properiy for parks and Govern- ment reservations in the last few years was about 165 per cent of the assessed valuation. Over a long stretch of vears, however, notably in acquiring the Rock Creek and Poto- mac Parkway, the price paid for the land averaged about 104.7 per cent of | the assessed valuation, he added. | Fred G. Coldren, secretary of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, was invited by Repre- sentative Gibson of Vermont, chair- man of the committee, to draft a bill embodying the features of Lieut. Col. Grant’s plan and present it to the committee for consideration as soon @8 convenient. He announced he would do so. Would Act As Witnesses. In explaining the details of the plan Ldeut. Col. Grant stated that it was desirable that each of the members of the permanent board of appraisal should be eligible to take the stand in condemnation cases as expert wit- nesses in support of governmental oontentions as to property value. Representative Houston of Delaware asked questions pointing to the fact that the final determination of value would still be in the hands of the Jurors sitting on condemnation cases, ut was informed by Lieut. Col. Grant that the effect of having such a board of appraisal would be to bolster the ‘Government's position considerably in ocondemnation values. J. H. Johnson, jr., vice president of the firm of Barber & Ross and chairman of the present jury com- mission, was the next witness to take the stand, He was questioned as to the method of selecting jurors in the District, various members of the committee stressing their desi learn just how so many re men were jurors in recent con- demnation cases. He said that a big st of names was put in the jury box by the clerk of the commission wund that the box was brought sealed into the office of the Commissioners. One of the jury commissioners broke the seal, he said, and proceeded to draw the panel. In condemnation cases, he sall hen _three _jurc | [ mere comfart could o8- B e onk Al Sizes 21/ to 10. Widths AAA o Extra Widths for STOUT WOMEN Black or Brown Kid | sentative Gilbert of Ker | but those of real estate men.” | commissioner. | site for consideration, Col ultimately were to be selected, a list of 12 or 15 names was sent to the court, and the court then selected the Jurors for the particular case. Favors Realty Men. Mr. Gibson mentioned the names of real estate men serving on the o in four _different asking if he knew how they and witness replied selection to be ac slar routine. Gibson said he noted that in nes all condemnation juries, from June 24, to Jun# 30, 1926, at least one or two real estate men were jurors. Mr. Jobnson replied that the names had evidently been drawn from the box and the jurors had probably been qualified by the court, adding that he personally thought it was a good thing to have a estate man on such a jurys Mr. Houston interjected here the | observation that in g 1l practice the original batch of names to be selected for jury duty was compiled by the commissioners, and that the clerk would then pull such names from the box into which the jury commissioners had placed them You can’'t take out any nes ex- cept from the group that are put in the box, you know observed Repre E icky. “If the clerk did not put any names but hose of real estate men in the box vou couldn’'t draw out any names Court Instructs Clerk. Mr. Johnson answered that the clerk was instructed in his duties by the court, and that he presumed such duties were diligently performed Questions developed that the jury commissioners were not present when the clerk put the names in the box Chairman _ Gibson read sections from the Distritt Code which he construed to entail duties of seeing to all points of the selection of the | names upon the jury commissioners. Mr. Johnson said he as not fully juainted with the law in detail on that point, although he had general knowledge of his duties as a jury Representative Hamr Carolina, w mination i « rocedure in allowing the clerk of iry commission to make the y 1l selection of the names. The committee then turned its at tention to the Farmers' Produ Market. Engineer Comm nklin Bell took the s d that three tentative selections of a site for the market, for which bill is now pending in Congress al- lowing $600,000 for purchase of such a site, had thus far been advanced. | He mentioned generally the Ecking- | ton site, the Southy waterfront site and the mideity site, near bth and L streets. Denies Railroad Pressure. Accessibility to buyers, conven ience to the farmers bringing in products to the market, proximity to probable future location of whole- sale houses and to transportation lines were points he summarized as among the determining elements which authorities believed should finally dictate the selection of the to whether the been exertin pressure forward the Eckington Bell de- nied any knowledge of such an oper- ation. He suggested that an offer of from 00 to 250,000 square feet of GOWNS R ORI N Y 1309 G We Planned THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927 Moodward & Lnthrap | Aey 10th, 11th, F and G Streets ground in the midcity site's general location be obtained, since the prop- erty value in this case might prove a formidable obstacle in view of the $600,000 limitation. Driscoll, president of the Citizens' Association, took stand, and promised to obtain such an estimate, stating that prac- tical real estate opinion in the neigh- borhood was that the site might be obtained there well within that lim- ittation, Estimate Is Requested. He pointed to the advantages of the site from its accessibili to both buying public and farme: and be- cause of the fact t the center of the city’s popu as well the city's geograph Mr. Houston was in ch: examination on this prope sked Mr. Driscoll to get a tangible proposition before the committee for consideration as soon i J. G. 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