MERRYWOOD APARTMENT REZONING SPARKS STUDY OF INCORPORATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100270013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 27, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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ii errywOocl Apartment Rezoning
Sparks Study OF Incorporation
Committee Yenned to Fight PrOject;
Appeal Planned to Circuit Court
?, Merrywood. widely known as the girlhood home of Mrs. Jacqueline
fc.ertriedy, achieved new fame of a sort this week as the center of an
explosive controversy over rezoning of the property for Dranesville
hstrict's first apartment.? .
The board of directors of the McLean citizens Association reacted At
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the April 18 decision of the Fairfax -Board. of County Supervisors
4y calling on the 'association's 10C111?,goireettlitt4t .committee to draft ,..?,
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a proposed city charter for McLean: ? .
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A group ofcommunity leaden i biltily, formed a, Committee for Pre-
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serving the Potomac to light the rezoning. Chairman Samuel E. gee'.'
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- former president. of the citizens* - '' / ???????????????*M11.11.110?1100.14?011111?0?11?14. ir.f, 4, i.
association, said,- "We are in this development.' Prom the stands**,
fight to stay." The committee sasktd of available highways, traffic ' Miss
that Contributions for its work be pitons. donnas of stiOP WI-
sent to PAY. Box 306, McLean, Vta. sties, aderitracy of schools cob-
Clive DuVal 2d. president of thetibility with present dere! era ?
citizens' association, called a special Ur.' Brad' the api
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meeting for Thursday, April 26, and Sheldon agatine' to ull '1. -
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said that a way. must be found to units at Merywood failed to meet
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's stanari.
-assure that the elected represents- the board . -
Ives of the McLean community re- Attomey Lytttia H. Gibson, rep-
ct the will of McLean residents
. c resentinwthe applicant in seekinrre-
arid to reserve to the ommunity
zoning of the 46-acre property, scon-
control of McLean onin actions.' tended that that tract, between
Mr. DuVal, in a letter,to McLean Chain Bridge R. and the Potoshac
residents, charged a "double-cross" River near the ' Boston County-
line, is not a past Of the ' McLean
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by Supervisor A. Claiborne Leigh,
-.21,, who made the motion as the board 1;
, .. community,
approved the 17-story apartment Mt. Gibson pre ' experts ht
project by a 5-2 vote. The associa-,'..1', marketing '
planning, enginee
and des go who Said t t. rOjett VMS
von president said that Wr. Leigh Is
feasible and attracti t and licit
in 1959 had run on a platform saving 1
he stood "firmly against the con- necessarily related to o .. develop- .?,..
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-,(ruction of apartments anywhere Intent that might followil'
wood '
said that. up to the moment the I times Oft " 'lisland." with he area. 1,7`i,.
The attorney pictured
m .Dranesville 101strkt." Mr. DuVal I
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f . board met on April 18, Mr. Leigh 1 "es"inkt?n . Parkway to
, ilail. given no indication ? that he
' contain apartment ?develo so ?????'
v central McLean.
?*,???,' ould vote for the apartment pro- ?At it *Paid not spread d
;See the column "Along Chain ' *reatiram3r Attazkad
;4 Fridge Road" on this page.) I Testimony by the a pli
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'i Here and there, among business- WitAelatst was atladiced
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1.9esteryone. ?
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eMplcried by th?
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men-and citizens'lilts hoarfe4.
cision was Praised on ateePted 33 B
an inevitable or desirable change'
in McLean area developtnent. Bat we
nese yokes could scarcely be heard cant hil*; Oareeilu ?I)P?Int"
the re:mo ? .
in the din that erupted after the
gasps had subsided. OutOttping: told the board
constrgetion of ..the three apart
Some residents expressed .con-
cern over the future:oflhe Potomac b444 /1/11t- and SO river-side t
houses would 14 less destructive'
"palisades" as a result of the decision tremd 01=4 natural bi Kt ,
salt It t devielopritent a
? ,aingle-family hornet'
vihk4 he-said
trCoutty wrohld loan
,taorn in taxes flmt
L,Tistojeet? than ,
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to rezone ibt prope M of Mr.ag
rs. Hugh Auc ,,
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iver'. Many people it, oi
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ively unconcerne4 t -1* '
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wood itself , w ,, t, s I a
Courtly Planning..,, 4 . ?
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,ecy that apprO eat
would ? "it, , char-
acter of the *iv w ..
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OChattgltd4 ' r
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irritable. the as, r'' .
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essed the . vicer7 h .vie-
president;
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, apapartment deve.1 " ?1,cod O l:1Z
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f*tio tt to arittr ot develop-
ment itr,the McLean ca and had
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, At the hearing, associatiort.spo
i 0 men charged' the Supervisors' th
I tiling- to ? meet the Criteria it had
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