22 VOW BUILDING CURB IN MERRYWOOD AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100270005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 20, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/05/05 : CIA-RDP75-000
Act to Preserve Palisades
22 Vow Buildin E Curb
in Merrywood Area
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A citizens' campaign to preserve the Potomac Pali,
sades bore fruit yesterday as 22 owners of property
near the Merrywood estate in Virginia pledged to limit
strictly the use of their land.
They handed the Federal Government deeds for scenic'
casements on 60 acres overlooking the Potomac and said
they will seek voluntary commitments to tie down other
,properties.
Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall is one of those:.
agreeing to restrict his land to low-density development.
The easements, designer
primarily to keep out apart
ments, would limit develop.
ment to farms or single-family
homes no higher than 40 feeti
No lots smaller than an acre
To make the deeds good, the
Citizens or the Goti.ernrnent
must get scenic easements or
outright title to the remain
Ing 200 acres, Sppecifically in-'
eluding the controversial 47.
acre Merrywood estate and it
seven?acre property owned by
could be sold and no trees cuti Dr. Roger Baker'.
down without National Parkl Interior has filed suit for
Service approval. scenic easements on Merry.
The restrictions would notlwood, thereby blocking a
become effective unless thelplanned apartment develop.
Government. by Sept. 1, 1968ment, and negotiations on a
has acquired similar protec? pl are underway.,:' Y, to
tion over at least 90 per cent Baker tract was athe ott il
4 the entire 261-acre section mentioned because the owner
on the wooded Potomac Bluffs, has advertised it for sale as
The area, which includes suitable for apartments
land in both Fairfax and Ar-?Tire 80 acres plcdgo? 0t Aterr lington Counties, lies betwren ment would bring a
'day plus the bring ab wo a a r
t -4 per
the Potomac and the George 'cent of ou area t or
Washington Memorial Park-,tl,, the the land protective deeds.
way, its southern boundary' Airs. Rowe cozigrawU.1 d
being the approaches to Chain the Palisades 'Cit12eitit hide r
Bridge. "foresightedness and `genci'oa
Mrs. John A. Bross of 4501 ity." One of the landowners,
Crest Ia., McLean, headed the Robert "J, McKinsey, 3901 N.
citizens' committee that gave 44th Nt., explained that donors
the deeds yesterday to Mrs. considered preserv$tion of the
James H. Rowe it,, chairman Palisades a "civic duty."
of the National Capital Plan- Among the 22 who have
ping Commission. signed up are American
Mrs. Bross said the commit- Broadcasting Co. commenta?
tee will continue urging neigh-1 tor Edward P.:Mnrgan, Deputy
hors to grant similar ease-Assistant Secretary of De-
ments. About a halt-dozen fence lWaiter "('. Skallerup, and
,land-owners so far have reWalter 7' Milder of Bidder
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fused. I Publications
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