Box 3, Folder 5, Document 40

Box 3, Folder 5, Document 40

Mr. Don Hummel
Assistant Secretary for
Renewal & Housing Assistance
Room 9100
Department of Housing & Urban Development
451 = Seventh Street S. W.
Washington, D. C. 2010
Subject: Request for Approval

Project GA. R-1O1

Bedford Pine Urban Redevelopment Area
Dear Mr. Hummel:
The above 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 II 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,