Chapter 220. To amend an Act regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia, approved June 1, 1910
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CHAP. 220.— An Act To amend an Act regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia, approved June 1, 1910. April 29, 1930.[[S. 686](/us/bill/71/s/686).][[Public, No. 175](/us/pl/71/175).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia, zoning regulations. That an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District Vol. 36, p. 454, amended.of Columbia,” approved June 1, 1910, be, and it is hereby, amended by adding at the end of paragraph 5 of said Act the following provisos:
" Height allowed for building on the Dean tract. “*And provided further*, That the building to be erected on property known as the Dean tract, comprising nine and one-fourth Location.acres, bounded on the west by Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road, on the south by Florida Avenue, on the east by Nineteenth Street, and on the north by a property line running east and west five hundred and sixty-four feet in length, said building to cover an area not exceeding fourteen thousand square feet and to be located on said property not less than forty feet distant from the north property line, not less than three hundred and twenty feet distant from the Connecticut Avenue property line, not less than one hundred and sixty feet distant from the Nineteenth Street property line, and not less than three hundred and sixty feet distant from the Florida Avenue line, measured at the point on the Florida Avenue boundary where the center line of Twentieth Street meets said boundary, be permitted to be erected to a height not to exceed one hundred and eighty feet above the level of the existing grade at the center of the location above described: *And provided further*, *Proviso*.Approval by Fine Arts Commission, etc., required.That the design of said building and the layout of said ground be subject to approval by the Fine Arts Commission and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, both of the District of Columbia.
” " Approved, April 29, 1930.