PIVISION TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.) EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 4993 A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 54-41588. MAY 23, 1956 Printed for the use of the Committee on the District of Columbia UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1956 H. R. 4993_. Clouser, Robert O., executive officer, Zoning Commission.- Eagan, James K., general counsel, American Oil Co... McKee, Jerome B., secretary, Georgetown Businessmen's Association McLaughlin, Robert E., Chairman, Board of Commissioners, District Nolen, John, Jr., Director, National Capital Planning Commission... Reditz, George- Sellers, Mrs. Walter A., delegate, Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park Sheehan, T. N., president, Cleveland Park-Cathedral Heights Citizens Smith, Homer J., chairman, zoning committee, Federation of Citizens West, Vernon E., Corporation Counsel, District of Columbia Excerpt from report offered by the Board of Commissioners in III TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF 2 WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1956 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:17 a. m., in room 445, Old House Office Building, Hon. John L. McMillan, chairman of the committee, presiding. Present: Representatives John L. McMillan (chairman of the committee), John Bell Williams, Roy W. Wier, Woodrow W. Jones, Sid Simpson, A. L. Miller, Joel T. Broyhill, and DeWitt S. Hyde. Also present: William N. McLeod, Jr., clerk of the committee. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. I called this meeting for the specific purpose of considering H. R. 4993. (H. R. 4993 is as follows:) [H. R. 4993, 84th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to permit certain improvements to business propertys ituated in the District of Columbia Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to permit the erection, construction, alteration, conversion, maintenance, and use of such buildings and other improvements on square 1928, lot numbered 800 (southeast corner of the intersection of Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenues Northwest) situated in the District of Columbia, as the Commissioners may deem appropriate for the purpose of conducting the businesses which are being conducted on such lands on the date of enactment of this Act. This Act shall further provide that any buildings constructed on said lot 800 shall blend in and coincide with the buildings at the National Cathedral and at Saint Alban's School. The CHAIRMAN. I have called this meeting of the full committee for the specific purpose of considering H. R. 4993. This bill was considered by the Judiciary Subcommittee and unanimously reported to the full committee several weeks ago. I am firmly of the opinion that we have other Members of Congress who are well acquainted with the condition existing at the corner of Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenue who would like to make a statement in support of this bill. Therefore, I have called this additional hearing so that every person concerned will be given an opportunity to be heard on this important bill. The President of the United States in vetoing a similar bill 1 |