Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1930, Page 15

REAL ESTATE. STANDARD BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONNEAR Prospect of Early Start on Structure on B Street Is Seen in Drawings. mer; to erect one 2-story and cellar brick and tile dwelling, 1422 Geranium | street (lot 16, square 2737); to cost| $10,000. George 1. Willis, owner and builder; | L. E. Harris, designer; to erect one 2-| story brick and tile dwelling, 3315 Mili- tary road (lots 4 and 5, square 1992); 1o cost $10,000 George 1. Willis, owner and builder; L. E. Harris, designer; to erect one 2- story brick and tile dwelling, 5440 Ne- | vada avenue (lots 28 and 800, square | 1993); to cost $10,000. Frame Dwellings. P. J. Grady, owner and builder; | Charles A. Dillon, designer; to erect two 2-story frame dwellings, 4910 and 4914 Forty-third street (lots 31 to 34, square 1654); to cost $10,000. Breuninger & Phifer, owner and builder; L. E. Shotes, architect; to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 7407 Alaska avenue (Iot 24, square 2717); to cost $8,500. La Salle Park Corporation, owner and builder; M. Hajlett, designer; to erect one 2-story brick residence, 4304 Eight- eenth street northeast (lot 2, square 4188); to cost $8,000. Beverly P. Evans, owner and builder; George S. White, designer; to erect one 2-story brick and frame residence, 3229 Military road (lot 40, square 2023); to cost $5,500. Rudolph & West Co., owner; Fred B, Pyle, architect; S. J. Prescott Co., Inc builder: to repair 1332 New York ave- nue (lot 61, square 252); to cost $5,000. Repairs Are Authorized. : | Wallace Bryant, owner and builder; to repair 3100 Dunbarton avenue (lot 818-819, square 1232) ; to cost $3,000. R-W Realty Co., lessee; Richard H. Smythe. designer; George A. Dugan Co., ‘builder; to repair 1307 F street (lot 803. square 253); to cost $1,500. Hecht Co., owner; N. F. Bassell, con- tractor; to repair E street annex, 611 | E galbeet (lot 31, square 456); to cost Willlam Heard, owner; F. M. McCon- ihe & Co., builder; J. J. Whelan, archi- tect: to build garage underground, 3331 ©O street (ot 140, square 1245); to cost $1,000. Permit for Brick Addition. Frederick Hughes, owner; A. Jeffery, builder; 1203 Randolph street north- | east (lot 13, square 3924) ; to cost $1,000. C. P. Mayo, Inc, owner: shear Co., builder; Ward Brown, archi tect; to erect one 1-story brick addition, 1406 Thirty-fourth street (lot 828, square 1246); to cost $1,000. Jolm B. Broaddus, owner; Nelson B. Durfee, builder; repair 609 Upshur street, (lot 70, square 3226) ; to cost $450. ‘Thomas W. Sidwell (Sidwell's Priends Bchool), owner; W. K. Reeve, builder and designer; to repair 1811 I street (lots 4 and 5, square 106); to cost $700. 643); to cost $500. ederick E. Robey. owner: J. G. , Puil to repair 4424 Albemarle | (ots 24, 25, square 1590); to cost $500. +C. E. Gudebrod, owner; W. K. Reeve. designer and contractor: to repair 1530 | ‘Thirtieth street (lot 829, square 1269); | to_cost_$300. A FINE RESIDENCE Facing Park — Near 16th Brick. trimmed limestone, 7 bed room: 2" extra lavatories, billiard 100 m, rick _fireplaces, ingly set on big ner lot. A suitable home for correct in the revised price indicates superior value. -Open Sun- day and Monday. Price . . $33,500 4419 Argyle Terrace N.W. At 18th and Allison Sts. e seens 6L M A ooker Tower Bldg. Met. 2663 | that every street should be wide, and should have a street car as well as large volumes of vehicle traffic, but it means that good street car service and wide streets leading to varipus parts of the city should be close by. $8,500 THE EVENING CITY PLANNING HALTS BLIGHT OF URBAN AREA, SESSION TOLD St. Louis Engineer Ex plains Causes, Symp- toms and Remedies, Showing Wide Range of Advantages in Study. The causes, the symptoms, the pre- | ventive measures and the cure for cases of blighted urban area were discussed at the Toronto convention recently by Harland Bartholomew, city planning engineer for St. Louis, Mo, who has been engaged in city planning services in 60 American cities. Mr. Bartholomew told the real estate delegates that the symptoms of a blight- ed urban are and the characteristics by which it is recognizable are frequent vacancies in property, a general appear- ance of decay and dejection, and no prospect of a renewed market for its original use or other purposes. The cause of the blighted urban ares is un- controlled large scale urban growth. The preventive and the cure are skillful planning. ‘Blighted” 'residential property can- not be cured unless it can be changed to commercial use. “Blighted” com- mercial areas, however, are susceptible to cure if they are strategically and logically located in the city plan, he said. The various obvious factors which cause urban areas to become blighted, Mr. Bartholomew listed as: Inadequate utility services, inaccessibility, lack of homogeneity, obsolescence, decentraliza- tion and character of tenancy. Normal Utility Services, “The first requisite in creating and | maintaining the more desirable value | and form of use of property is the early or immediate provision of all mormal | utility services, such as water, sewers, gas, electricity and some form of pave- | ment, with probably sidewalks, curbs and gutters, if there is to be irdefinite development and use of the property,” Mr. Bartholomew said. “And yet how | often in almost every city can we point | out numerous and even recent exam- ples of subdivisions without certain of these essentials. “When a developer tries to cut the corners and leave off some of these essential utility services, right then and there is the beginning of a blighted dis- trict. Because we have not yes collec- tively admitted this simple fect—this wholesale method of blighted property, there are at present only a few citles which actually insist upon these utility services as g prerequisite of approval of land subdivision plats. “‘Probably the most prevalent form of blighted urban area is the original busi- ness center of the town, left behind by newly created business sections pointed farther toward the residential districts of highest purchasing power,” Mr. Bar- tholomew said. “As a city grows in size the business district must naturally expané. How- ever, it need not necessarily shift. If it is properly located and at all ade- quately accessible there need be no con- sequent blight. Accessibility or Blight. “If the older purchases of the dis- trict are not accessible, blight is in- evitable. Accessibility implies easy means of communication by both street car and vehicle. This does not mean Just So GRANT | design and construction. “Business districts should not be left to struggle or be shunted here and there by every new and larger devel ent. A business district lhutuld ll)l: de fle\: designed in relation to all a c] thoroughfares and should be Wfilfll- cient size to anticipate gradual future | expansion without sudden shifting. An example of appropriate size, location and design of a central business district is found in the city plan of Rochester, “Street car routings once determined the size and shape of business districts. Today the automobile plays an equal or even greater part. The most com- mon form of blight is caused by the invasion of stores and apartments in single family residence districts, It was a realization of the need for homo- geneity that led to the development of zoning, but zoning alone cannot pre- serve or produce homogeneity. Te must be a mutual eommunity of interest and action on the part of large num- bers of property owners, especially if there is a threatened invasion of grossly inappropriate uses.” Obsolescence a Factor. “Obsolescence is undoubtedly a large factor in blight,” Mr. Bartholomew said. “We cannot prevent buildings from becoming obsolete. - We cannot and should not prevent new types of ‘We should be capable, however. of so regulating the processes of transition as to avold want or waste and abandonment of areas for no good reason. “Much is said and written today upon the subject of decentralization of citles. The extent to which new out- lying developments of commercial char- acter, particularly, comprise new growih, as opposed to shift of such businesses from the central downtown difficult to estimate. As the access to the downtown distriots be- comes increasingly difficult, new growth will undoubtedly take place in outly- ing areas, but before we advocate and encourage too extensive decentralization of our cities we need to know very much more about them. that the laws of supply will regul the decentralizatio: cities. Will they? Our blight districts are largely the result of opening up new areas of unlimited size. “The glamour of new things is irre- sistible, and people insist upon having new things at any cost so long as they have the means with which to pay. It is merely a question of whether we are going always to create new dis- tricts for our new types of dwellings or commercial buildings, or whether we shall introduce the new buildings into the old districts and displace the older structures. Common Sense in Process. “There is less romance in the latter process certainly, but much more sound common sense. “To limit the physical area of cities is not an unreasonable proposal, par- ticularly since it can be accomplished in more than one way and without injury to any one in particular, “Investigations now show that a given number of people can absorb only so much land for certain types of use. I should therefore like to urge that every city examine closely the provisions of its zoning ordinance, both in use and bulk provisions, if there is a threatened uth of CIRCLE 4009 New Hampshire Avenue Opposite Government Pa An Immaculate Home Si: rk Delightful Section X Rooms—Tile Bath 3 Porches—Throughly Modern Wonderfully Improved Lot—Brick Garage 1704 Conn. Ave. Schwab, Valk & Canby WAVERLY TAYLOR. S22 Present the FOUNDRY BRANCH: PARK VIEW of their Double-Front English Group Homes Ifln;_all Have you ever seen a picture of the rear of houses in an advertisement before? IWhy not? Furnished Model Home—1509 4ith St. 4 National 1040 Office 1522 K St. STAR, WASHINGTON WASHINGTON SEEN AS IMMENSE CITY Observer Predicts Spread Into Distant Areas in Mary- land and Virginia. (Continued Prom First Page.) seek larger ‘A’ area lots, even with sults stated. ‘Bullders, however, have found that open yard area was demanded by tenants, and a reaction has set in to seek large lots, even with area restrictions, because they bring more profitable returns. - strong tendency to apartments was not anticipated by the Zoning Com- mission. -The records show that while 15 per cent of family accommodations were provided in apartment houses in 1920, 50 per cent have been so pro- vided since 1925, with the result that available apartment house sites are| being developed at rate duvrogu tionate to that of the available dwelling Probable Policies Outlined. house sites. “Confronted with the many petitions | for rezoning that must follow this sit- | uation, the Zoning Commission may | pursue the following policies: 1. Adhere to a policy of limited areas for apartment houses in order to avor the construction of individual dwellings. “2, Leave the present zoning un- changed, but announce a willingness to consider individual petitions for rezon- ing. “3, Advertise for public hearing an | amended zoning map with a wider dis- tribution of areas in which apartment houses may be erected. “The last policy would remove any uncertainty as to future uses of build- ing sites and place all property own- ers on an equal footing.” Other Conditions Described. Other conclusions reached by Mr. Lindholm, based on & long and com- prehensive study of s mass of figures | and charts, -compiled over & period of months, are as follows: ““The experience shows that the needs | blighted district. Zoning is specifically designed for such purposes if correctly “Up to now we have not faced frankly the laws of supply and demand for various classes of urban land and our entire municipal structures are based. upon an assumption of ever in- creasing and unlimited growth, which ignores the fact that too thin a spread of cities is a greater economic and evil than t’l of overcrowding. BRICK 7707 12th Open Daily 10 AM. to I12th St., Investment Bldg. to Drive out 16th St. to Alaska Ave. turw left to house. BUILDERS-REALTORS D. C., SATURDAY for commercial and industrial uses have been amply provided for by zoning. If the future may be gauged by the past 10 years, the growth of population will demand not only all available residen- tial area, but will also seek homes in commercial areas and still have abund- ant commercial and industrial areas for neighborhood development. That is, residential areas will be at a pre- mium over other areas, unless people are prematurely forced to live in sur- rounding States, while Washington has to supply their wants. “If the experience of the past has been correctly interpreted the rezoning of more residential area units into com- mercial or industrial (unless it be to provide one or two business islands in still unsettled districts) is uneconomi- cal, against the best interests of the neighborhoods and serves only to as- sist_in private speculation. “The decline of certain streets as high-class residential property creates a most R:rplextu zoning problem, for which there is no solution except to move slowly. A partial relief is sought in the creation of a new commercial zone which will bar stores and con- spicuous commercial fronts. As, how- ever, the new uses to which streets so zoned are opened—especially office DETACHED BRICK On Quiet Tree-Lined Street in CHEVY CHASE $15,500 A charming, completely reconditioned brick home, among old shade trees and luxurious shrubs and evergreens, in a section of truly fine homes, just west, of the circle. First floor has reception hall, big living room with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, breakfast alcove, B-ntry. tile bath with uilt-in shower and tub, and two large bed rooms. Second floor has one fin- ished bed room and there 1s ample space for another room, closets, etc. Large cement front porch with massive brick pillars; beautiful lot of unusual size, 26 West Hesketh St. Go - west on Magnolia Parkway from Chevy Chase Circle. Home open Sunday and Mondsy. Qo{/;;{”oa;'er Tower Bldg. Met, 2663 Breuninger Exhibit Home Completely Furnished by D. S. Pool $14, THE PRICE IS THE FEATURE OF THIS FINE 500 HOME. St. NW. ‘Beautiful, Well Designed, All-Brick Detached Resi- dence, ideally arranged, 6 rooms and bath with shower. Slate roof, screens, weather strips and Ice Machine. 50x125, planted with rose bushes and shrubbery. Lot, Garage. and Sunday 6 PM. Jdreuninger & Sons National 2040 We now have— (1) Paved Streets (2) City water (3) Permanent sewers (4) Cement sidewalks (5) Street lights (6 A new graded school (7) Several stores— churches (8) Over 200 properties have already been sold (9) Over 150 families already live in AURORA HILLS Everything is ready for and build your own home or Several houses are now prices from—$7,000 to $15 Sample houses—600 410 and look for ington’s Most It Has Already Been Done in Aurora Hills, Vi you to select your homesite let us build it for you. ready to be sold, ranging in ,300. Buy where the Memorial Bridge and Mount Vernon Boulevard will increase values. Come out Sunday or any day and inspect. Washington Avenue Greene Avenue Take Alexandria car or bus at 12th street and Pewna. Ave. and get off at AURORA HILLS or drive out either road to Alexandria r our signs. AURORA HILLS VIRGINIA Convenient Suburb. Phone Clarendon 1057 AUGUST 30 buildings and semi-commercial institu- tions—cannot be expected to require but a portion of the streets clamoring. for relief, the practical results of a new zone should not be overestimated. “The need of an extension of the Zoning 's power to deal with exceptional cases without alter- ing the zoning map is agreed |:g:n t has, therefore, been suggested, the REAL suthority be defined by an amendment | to the zoning regulations and that an early court decision be sought to de- termine its constitutionality. “That the extnded power should be Jodged with the Zoning Commission and | not with a new official body has in| its favor the past history of zonin | review which has been singularly free from criticisms.” | ESEAEE Two Rooms, Kitchen and Bath, $42.50 Cambria-Majestic 26 Euclid Street N.W. NEW DETACHED BRICK HOMES 3319 FESSENDEN ST. N.W. Something Different in Construction and Design. These attractive three bed room, two-bath homes offer the public an individual, common-sense floor plan. They are ultra- modern: the rooms spacious; plenty of closets, and a livable The BEST has been used thruout and the following attic. appointments available: Kelvinator Refrigerator, covered and open porches, colored tiled baths with built-in fixtures, cedar closets, open fireplace, two-car garage, tiled entrance halls, elaborately equipped kitchens with Electric Dishwashers, and beautifully landscaped lots. 1 BLO: CONN. K AVE. WM. S. PHILLIPS axo CO. REALTOR—BUILDER DECATUR 5000 $15.950 5520 Conn. Ave. 6503 Connecticut Ave. HERE IS THE OUTSTANDING BUY OF THE YEAR. NEW ALL BRICK CENTER-HALL COLONIAL WITH 2-CAR BUILT-IN GARAGE. Located on a wide lot overlooking the beautiful grounds of Chevy Chase Seminary. The six rooms and unusually spacious and the 2 tiled baths finely appointed. Breakfast alcove. There is a large floored attic of suffi- cient size to provide space for two additional rooms. gutters and downspout, OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY AND LABOR DAY Edw. H. Jones & Co. Inc. bfofllc screens. Chevy Chase Properties Chevy Chase, Md. Slate roof; copper Cleve. 2300 Reached from Connecticut or Wisconsin Avenues Open Sunday From 10 AM. Until 8§ PM. 3512 Macomb Street N.W. WONDERFULLY situated on one of the high- est elevations in this desirable residential section, close to St. Alban's Cathedral. An excep- tionauy well-built home of Colonial design with lnrde center hall, 11 uplcious rooms and four baths, artistically refinished throughout. are three covered porches and a two-car garage. An inspection will convince you that this is a remarkable value. W C aw A . Miller 1119 17th St. NW. BUILDERS AND REALTORS There Decatur 0610