Box 5, Folder 2, Document 22

Box 5, Folder 2, Document 22

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A zoning class in the graduate school of the *
City Planning Department of Georgia Tech will
begin work soon on a short-range plan designed
to make zoning recommendations on vacant
land in Southwest Atlanta. The recommenda-
tions will relate both to the reactions of the peo-
ple in the neighborhoods concerned, and to city
objectives, according to Tech Associate Profes-
sor Roger F. Rupnow. Rupnow says he hopes
the class can get to work on the project around
the first of April when a new quarter begins.

The some 15 students, who are in Tech’s two-
year City Planning graduate program, will,
Rupnow hopes, generate their own program of
work once they have been given the boundaries
within which they are to work and have some
knowledge of the zoning problems of the area.
Then, these students will take their plan of work
to the executive committee of the Federation of
Southwest Clubs (FSC), explain it, and defend
and modify it, if necessary, based on their con-
versation with the executive committee.

The boundaries laid out by FSC (the council
made up of representatives of civic clubs on the
south side, which is seeking both a short-range
and long-range land-use plan for the area) are
Gordon Road on the north, Campbellton Road on
the south, Donnelly Avenue on the east and Ful-
ton Industrial Boulevard on the west.

Rupnow says the students will try to come up
with a zoning plan for the entire area and, in
arriving at this zoning plan, they hope to relate
both the reactions of the people and to the city
requirements. The class wil! work closeiy with
both groups.

This is the first time such an approach has
been used with a zoning class at Tech, and the
plan came about through the Atlanta Urban
League which has been working with both Tech
and citizen groups in Southwest Atlanta.

Rupnow said he wanted to emphasize to the
public that his class would be making recom-
mendations—they are not empowered to go
beyond this. And that the recommendations
would possible include suggestions for amend-

-ing city zoning ordinances as well as sugges-

tions for zoning in the southside.

“We are going to try to come up with a plan
that might be more specific than what now ex-
ists,"’ Rupnow said. {

The plan must be achieved during an 11-week
period, the length of a quarter at Tech. The City
Planning Professor admits this-is quite an un-
dertaking. but he is optimistic that his students
will be able to achieve it.

“The students will be looking at the neigh-
borhoods first hand,’’ Rupnow said. ‘‘They will
study them from the sense of land use and what
zoning ordinances permit in the areas under
consideration.”

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