Box 5, Folder 15, Document 5

Box 5, Folder 15, Document 5

RESOLUTION
BY ALDERMAN JACK SUMMERS

WHEREAS, the State Highway Department of Georgia has proposed
the construction of a highway in Atlanta and Fulton County, Georgia as Project
1-485, known locally as Line "B' which extends northerly from the vicinity
of Ponce de Leon Avenue to 1-85 and F-056 in the vicinity of Lindberg Drive,
and

WHEREAS, the proposed project has long been an approved part
of the development plan for Atlanta and Fulton County, and

WHEREAS, the proposed project will provide traffic service to a
heavily developed area, will provide for continuity of other freeways, and
will provide relief to the traffic eongestion occurring at the Brookwood
Station Interchange and the North Freeway (Jct. 1-75 and 1-85), and

WHEREAS, the proposed project is the key to other proposed highway
improvement projects in the area, and

WHEREAS, there is a critical need for this project: |

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the location of this
proposed project along Line ''B" is concurred in by the Board of Aldermen
of the City of Atlanta, and is recommended for approval to the State Highway
Board of Georgia and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be
furnished to the State Highway Board of Georgia along with the request
that the proposed project be constructed at the earliest practicable date.