CHEVY CHASE CIT. ASS'N v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COUN.

Nos. 6489, 6579.

307 A.2d 740 (1973)

CHEVY CHASE CITIZENS ASSOCIATION et al., and Mark M. Velsey, Petitioners, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COUNCIL, Respondent, Friendship Associates and Committee of 100 on the Federal City, Intervenors. CHEVY CHASE CITIZENS ASSOCIATION et al., and Mark M. Velsey, Petitioners, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SURVEYOR, District of Columbia Council, and Commissioner of the District of Columbia, Respondents, Friendship Associates, Intervenor.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter A. Hornbostel for Chevy Chase Citizens Association, Friendship Citizens Association, Citizens Coordinating Committee on Friendship Heights, and Mark M. Velsey, petitioners in Nos. 6489 and 6579.

Peter S. Craig, Washington, D. C. for Committee of 100 on the Federal City, intervenor in No. 6489 and further petitioner in No. 6579.

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Washington, D. C., Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the pleadings, for respondents.

Norman M. Glasgow, Washington, D. C., with whom Whayne S. Quin, Washington, D. C. was on the pleadings, for intervenor Friendship Associates.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge, and NEBEKER and HARRIS, Associate Judges.


HARRIS, Associate Judge:

Square 1660 in the District of Columbia is irregularly (almost triangularly) shaped. It is bounded by Wisconsin Avenue on the east, Western Avenue on the north, and Jenifer Street (which is doglegged) on the south and west. Roughly bisecting the square is the northernmost block of 44th Street, N.W. It is rather short, and runs a somewhat doglegged course from Jenifer Street to Western Avenue.

That general area, lying within what is...

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