Box 17, Folder 11, Document 44

Box 17, Folder 11, Document 44

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PLANNING

DEPARTMENT TO MAKE A STUDY OF CERTAIN

PROPERTIES, NOW ZONED FOR COMMERCIAL AND

MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, TO DETERMINE

WHICH OF SAID PROPERTIES COULD PROPERLY

AND EQUITABLY BE ZONED FOR HOUSING FOR ANY

AND ALL RACES,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of the City of Atlanta that the City Planning Department be
and it is hereby directed to institute immediately a complete
and comprehensive study of all available land within the limits
of the City of Atlanta that in the past has been zoned for
commercial and manufacturing establishments for the purpose
of determining which of said properties could properly and
equitably be zoned for open housing to be purchased and
occupied by persons of any and all races; that said property
be studied and a plan recommended that will sustain present
and future values insofar as it is possible to do so; that
a veport be made to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen by
the said Planning Department at as early a date as is

possible.