15 February 1979 Greenbelt News Review
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<!irccnhrlt March Occupancy Expected For Green Ridge House by Mary Lou Williamson south wing on the main floor the Green Ridge House, the city's mail room is on the right with locked boxes' and a mail slot for elderly housing facility will be outgoing mail; next a re public rest Dews Rruiew finished by March 1. Harkins room s in yellow; a laundry room, 4- AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER builders expects to have the fa washers and· 4 dryers a re not yet. Volume 42, Number 13 GREENBELT, MARYLAND Thursday, February 15, 1979 cility ready to turn over to the in stalled. On t he other side or city and its CMF management the hall windows look out on a.. firm by that date, though some paved patio area with more than e. outdoor work will remain to be dozen yellow rain trees, tables wilt Zoning Change~Petition on North End Parce_ls completed. have yellow polka-<iot umbrellas. In the east wing beyond the li While Harkins may have a wing brary is a t wo-room clinic Where GHI Residents Meet ready befor~ t hen, occupancy is City Will Review Request a visting nurse will see patients. To Discuss Zoning still up in the a,ir according to by Elaine Skolnik City Manager James K. Giese. The The inner room has a yellow cer by Katherine Keene amic floor. The room may also Several weeks ago the Maryland National Capital Park and management firm has told him they be used for weekly beauty shop Planning Commission (MNCPPC) referred to the Greenbelt city About 40 people, m09tly Greenbelt have prospective residents whci, Homes Inc. ,members from courts are ready to move in at -the drop of for the ladies. council a rezoning petition for parcels 3 and 4 located in the north Giese, who is giving the tour to at the north edge of the planned a hat. CMF representatives Curtis eastern border of Greenbelt. The owners (Theodore Lerner, H. this reporter and two cit y staffers community, were at GHI's Hamilton and Nita Furgason expect occi: Max Ammerman and Burton J. Reiner Trustees) are requesting a Place office on February 1 at an points out one of the nice archi zoning change from R-R (single family) to R-T (townhouses, 10 pany to begin March 1 and move evening meeting to give their views as quickly as possible, taking a tectural features of the building: units per acre). ' on the proposed ~ning from bout one month. They hope to a large window at the end of ea.ch long corridor, giving -much natural The petitions will be discussed at the sewage drains away from the single family to townhouses of ten move in four residents a day. ThE' light to the hallway. Each apart a fdture city council meeting after existing sewer main. The southern acres of land held by a developer. residents are very anxious to get ment, he says, ha.s ,a deadlbolt lock recommendations are received from section of parcel 4 is designated as They had 'been told of the meeting in Mrs. Furgason told the News (the safest) lbut it requires only Greenbelt Homes Inc., and the Ad- System #1 - sewage available im by om in '.hand-<iellTered notices Review and "we want to move visoey Plann.l.ng and Park and Rec- mediately, earlier in the same week, but were them in as quickly as they want one key action .to unlock. Standard Unit reation Advisory Boards. City coun- Perimeter Road so concerned that many altered to get in." The resident manager oir11 final action wiU be transmitted The Master Plan shows the propo-- other plans to get to the meeting. they hired, Gloria Caulifield has al The standard unit ·has light beige to KNCPFC and .the county. The sed perjmeter road cutting through (The city had referred the matter ready interviewed 75 applicants. In- wa.B-t~l carpeting and off. Zoning Hearing Examiner will set the northern portions of parcels 3 to the Gm Board. (See separate erviewing should 1be finish ed in white walls. The wdndow frames a hearing date and the recommen- and 4. One purpose of the perim story.) anot her week or 10 days. and sills are also pain ted, though dation of the Examiner will be for- eter road was to handle the addi Bobbi McCarthy, chaiirperson of originally they were to have been Final Inspection varnished. The 11 x 17 ft. living warded to the County Council. Sit- tional traffic generated by the ev the Board's ad hoc committee on Community Development Admin room and 10 x 13 bedroom are very t ing as District Council, the council entual residential development of t he proposed re-zoning, explained istration officials ate expected to light, open and airy with large h!W the final sa y in zoning matters. parcels 1 and 2 (approximately 140 that t hey had been invited to give begin t he final inspection this windows in each. Only the lower However, in order to override ,a a cres ) locat ed betweel\ R idge Road their recommendations to t he com week. The a rch itect's inspection of half of the window opens and 1& municipality's recommendation and the Baltimore-Washington mittee who would t hen advise the a dozen com pleted apartment s took screened. We needed no artificial there must be a S'llpra-majority vot~ P a rkway. Parcel 1, north of North B oard. (Inasmuch as t he entire place in late January resulting in light to feel comfortable. board were present, th is step a punch list of corrections to be - 8 out of l1 m embers - by t h e way extended, is the larger of the On the ceilings are smoke deteo- seemed s uperfluous.) McCar thy made. H a rkins now has com pleted District CounciL two parcels with-over 100 acres. tors and sprinklers and on the began dividing a rat h er large those corrections and is ready for The rezoning petition covers 10.- In the late 1960's the developers walls are plugs for television and blackboard in the GHI Boa rd CDA. 30~ acres of land. P a r cel 3, with requested R-30 apartment zoning telephone. There is a recessed Room into two halves, on e labeled Demonstrations of m echanical 2.9002 acres is located n orth of (14 units a n acre) while the MN light over what might be the din "advantages" and the other "dis equipment such a s elevators, heat~ Ridge Road on the east side of Re- CPPC technical staff recommended ing room table. The kitchen has & advantages." At t he end of the ing plant, fire alarm and sprinkler searoh beuween the Gill homes (6 R-80 (single family) for most of pass through window to the dining evening only t hree items were systems were held last week. Kit and 8 'Research) and a narrow par cel 1 that is east of the perim area. The kitchen 'has a larger then listed undtr t he fl. rst heading. all chen a ppliances w ill be tested to portion of North End School pro- eter road ,and R-T (townhouses 10 expected 14 cu. ft. refrigerator, but supplied by McCarthy, who ex morrow, F ebrua ry 16. perty. Parcel •• with 7.4030 a cres units an acre) for the portion west it is not frost free. ''These are more plained that sh e was acting a s The building must be approved sits between the Ridge R oad play~ of the perimeter road. R-T was Devil's Advocate. enery-efficient" says Giese. Also. ground and 7 and 9 courts of Re- proposed for parcel 2, which is south for occupancy bo't:h by the county One advantage, she said, might t here will be no garbage disposah;. search on the west side of Research of Northway extended. These pe- and by CDA. CDA must also ap- be that new fllliliilies might have CDA has finally -agreed t o their de This parcel 8 \ll"rounds GHI homes titions which were left in limbo in prove the applicants. P'\u'gason young children who might wish to thinks that process should go letion. An exhaust fan is in the in the 7 and 9 courts of Research. the early 1970's, have recently been attend North End School. Members quickly once their list is complet ceiling above the electric stove. MN N ational Agric ultural R esearch reactivated. According to an of the audience m ade very clear ed. They are having no difficulty T he bathroom ,has m ulti-tot.1M (NARC) land lies t o the north and CPPC spokesman, the owners (Ler whfte-<beige-brown ceramic tile west of parcel "- th at t hey felt any such advantage in reaching t he 30% requirement ner, Ammerman and Reiner) in would be more t han offset by in of very low income residents. i'ur floors ~ a counter-top sink. There Master Plan December 1978 requested an am- creased streetside parking, increas- gason thinks a majorit y of appli are t h ree, sturdy-looking graib ,be.rs The Greenbelt-College Park Mas- endment for rezoning to R-T for ed road traffic, tree removal, eros cants fall within that category. - two over t he t ub and one ·by the 19 9 toilet, also t he shower curtain rod ter Plan of March 6 proposes the undeveloped acreage on parcels ion, and - looming in the back So far there are only 3 or 4 han that parcel 3 remain single family · will hold a man's weight.