Box 5, Folder 5, Document 7

Box 5, Folder 5, Document 7

RESOLUTION
by the

Housing Resources Committee

SUPPORTING THE NEED FOR HIGHLY CRITICAL DEPRESSED AREAS,
INCLUDING LIGHTNING AND PLUNKETTOWN, IN THE NEXT NDP APPLICATION
FOR EXECUTION IN 1970.

WHEREAS, There are several highly critical and relatively limited depressed
areas in Atlanta of extremely substandard housing, such as PLUNKETTOWN,
LIGHTNING, HUFF ROAD and SPRING AVENUE, N. W.; and

WHEREAS, The most appropriate and feasible approach toward elimination
of the substandard conditions in these areas in clearance and redevelopment
of these areas through the NDP program; and

WHEREAS, Potential non-cash grants-in-aid credits for the above stated
areas are very limited; and

WHEREAS, The substandard physical conditions in these areas are of
such long standing with little real effort made in the past to correct them; and

' WHEREAS, The City cannot eliminate its principal areas of substandard
conditions and inferior dwellings until these areas have been brought under
NDP treatment; and

WHEREAS, The City of Atlanta has a surplus of approximately $2.2

million in non-cash grants-in-aid credits in the Conventional Urban Renewal

program.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Housing Resources

Committee:

a.

That the Planning and Development Committee of the Board of
Aldermen be and are hereby requested to include the specific
areas listed above, in the City's NDP application for peeomcd
in 1970; and

That the Mayor and Board of Aldermen be and are hereby
requested to approve the inclusion of these areas for Execution
in the next NDP application of the City of Atlanta; and

That although we encourage and appreciate the efforts of other
neighborhoods to improve their areas through the NDP program,
if we are to eliminate the worst slums in the City, additional
and less deteriorated areas should not be placed in priority
above the areas listed in this Resolution, for inclusion in the
next NDP application for execution in 1970, but rather that
special efforts be made to also include such worthy areas,
That the Federal Government (HUD) be formally requested by
the Mayor to authorize utilization of a reasonable portion of
Atlanta's surplus credits in its conventional Urban Renewal

program to help meet the local share of NDP activity in these

particular areas.