Box 3, Folder 5, Document 38

Box 3, Folder 5, Document 38

September 20, 1968

Mr. Don Hummel
Assistant Secretary for Renewal
and Housing Assistance
Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 Seventh Street, S. W.
Room 9100
Washington, D. C. 20410

Subject: Request for Approval ~ Project GA, R-10l
Bedford Pine Urban Redevelopment Area

Dear Mr. Hummel;

Thésabove project is in an area of acute racial tensions. The
Part I for this project has been submitted, and we have been
waiting for approval for a considerable length of time. Public
Hearings have been held and the Part I submittal will be made
immediately after approval of the Part I,

The new Housing Act gives Atlanta an opportunity to convert this
project to the new program entitled Neighborhood Development
Program. We wish to make this conversion at the earliest possible
date, which we estimate to be within approximately three to four
months. Pending such conversion, however, it is important to
Atlanta that this project be approved as presently constituted
immediately, without the delay necessary to convert it.

Any steps you can take in view of the foregoing which would result
in early approval of this project would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor

TAS rify