Box 2, Folder 4, Document 9

Box 2, Folder 4, Document 9

AN ORDINANCE

BY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

WHEREAS, by ordinance of December 21, 1964, the Mayor and Board
of Aldermen of the City of Atlanta, Georgia, caused to be created a standing
committee of the Board of Aldermen entitled Urban Renewal Policy Committee,
as set forth in Section 2-40.2 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Atlanta,
Georgia effective July |, 1965, as amended, and
WHEREAS, it is deemed desirable and in the public interest that the number
of standing committees of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Atlanta, Georgia
be reduced in number and that such action would be in keeping with the precedent
established by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen in 1967, and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that the functions and responsibilities
of the Urban Renewal Policy Committee can readily and expeditiously be transferred
to another standing committee of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Atlanta,
Georgia, namely, the Planning and Development Committee, and
WHEREAS, such action should increase and improve communications between
and coordination of activities of both the City of Atlanta, Georgia and its urban
renewal agent, the Atlanta Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta, Georgia.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen of the City of Atlanta as follows:
|. That Section 2-40.2 of the Code of the City of Atlanta is hereby
repealed and the Urban Renewal Policy Committee is abolished.
2. That Section 2-40.1 (b) of the Code of the City of Atlanta is hereby
amended by striking said paragraph in its entirety aed inserting in
lieu thereof the following:
(b) Membership. The Planning and Development Committee shall be
composed of eight (8) members of the Board of Aldermen appointed

by the Mayor and two (2) advisory members from the Housing








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Authority of the City of Atlanta appointed by the Chairman
of the Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta.The Housing Authority men
of this committee shall have the power to vote only on those
items of housing and urban renewal which are going before
the Housing Authority's Board of Commissioners for further action.
The Chairman of said committee shall be appointed by the Mayor
and the other seven (7) members from the Board of Aldermen.
The Mayor shall appoint the Planning and Development Committee
so that a representation is obtained of aldermanic committees
concerned with community development, redevelopment, and
improvement.
3. That Section 2-40. (c) of the Code of the City of Atlanta is hereby

amended by striking said paragraph’ in its entirety and inserting

in lieu thereof the following:

(c) Funtions, responsibilities. This Planning and Development
Committee shall have the primary responsibility to review and
coordinate the long range plans and programs of all city efforts
in the fields of community development, redevelopment, housing,
facilities and improvements, and to make suggestions to other
appropriate aldermanic committees or recommend actions and
policies for adoption by the Board of Aldermen to insure maximum
coordination and the highest quality of urban community development
throughout the City. This responsibility sali include but is not
limited to the review and evaluation of the elements of the
comprehensive (general) plan development by the Planning Department
with guidance from the Atlanta ~ Fulton County Joint Planning Board;
this comprehensive plan to be composed of at least a land use plan,
transportation plan and a community facilities plan with public

improvements program and Capital Improvements Program. The

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committee shall further be responsible for developing policy
recommendations on all other matters concerning the planning
and coordination of future city developments including,
specifically, the Community Improvement Program (CIP),
Open Space, Urban Beautification, the 1962 Federal Highway
Act, the Workable Program for Community Improvement,
Urban Renewal and Neighborhood Development Program
preliminary and project or execution plans, and other related
urban renewal matters formerly under the responsibility of the
Urban Renewal Committee or the Urban Renewal Policy Committee.
The Committee shall further review all applications for federal
grants to determine their conformity with adopted overall plans
and policies for the developmerit of the City.

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in

conflict with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed.