Box 1, Folder 21, Document 60

Box 1, Folder 21, Document 60

CITY OF ATLANTA.

CITY HALL ATLANTA, GA. 30303
Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404

IVAN ALLEN, JR., MAYOR

DAN E. SWEAT, JR., Chlef Administratlve Officer
MRS. LINDA E, PRICE, Executive Secretary

November 18, 1969

Mr. Lewis E. Parker

State Highway Urban Engineer

State Highway Department of Georgia
No. 2 Capitol Square

Atlanta, Georgia 30334

SUBJECT: I-485-1(43) PE & I-485-1(46)R/W
Fulton County

Dear Mr. Parker:
Thank you for your letter of October 30, 1969.

We are delighted to have the opportunity to cooperate with the State and
Federal governments in providing park areas along I-485 in the City of
Atlanta.

The Atlanta Parks Department is prepared to assume responsibility for
the maintenance of the areas designated in your letter. Mr. Jack Delius,
General Manager of Parks, has asked only that his landscape architects
be allowed to review and possibly influence the landscaping plans for these
properties. The Parks Department staff has suggested these areas be
developed with tree planting schemes that would require very little
maintenance,

We hope that you will go further in acquiring a greater number of partial
takes of smaller size assuming the Bureau of Public Roads will approve

an expansion of this program. The Parks Department recognizes the
possible benefits to the neighborhoods involved and is willing and anxious
to assume responsibility for the maintenance of additional smaller sections
along I-485.
Mr. Lewis E. Parker
Page 2

Mr. Jack Delius will ask the Parks Committee to introduce a resolution
to the Board of Aldermen on December 1, 1969, which would authorize a
formal agreement from the City of Atlanta to undertake the maintenance
of the designated areas as well as other possible areas.

Sincerely yours,

Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor

IASr:lrd

Cc: Mr. Jack C. Delius
Honorable Charlie Leftwich
Honorable Buddy Fowlkes
Honorable Everett Millican
Honorable Rodney Cook
Honorable Cecil Turner
Honorable Richard Freeman
Mr. Sidney J. Marcus te ee
Mr. Charles Robisch

tMr. Dan Sweat
Mr. Collier Gladin
Mr. Emory Parrish
Mr. Joe E. Brown
Mr. Ed Garrard
Ar, Herschel Bryant