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• \, CITY I-IALL ATLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404 DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING COLLIER B. GLADI N, Dircccor January 6, 1969 Mr. W. R . Wofford Building Official Building Department City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Dear Bi 11: In assessing the status of the Housing Code Compliance Program for 1969, the Planning Department has offered various solutions for design of a new program, all of which have had the basic shortcoming of being based on outdated information. In an attempt to alleviate this problem, the Planning Departm ent submits the following proposal for activities of the Housing Code Compliance Program personnel for the year I969: Because of tremendous efforts on house-by-house inspections in th e most pressing are as of the city during the last year, the Housing Code Compliance Division has made original inspe ctions on a majority of the sub-standard dwelling units within the highest priority areas of the city. However, because of conditions beyond control of the inspe ctors (i.e. insufficient financial abilities, shortage of contractors, legal tieups), many of these recently inspected units have not comp Iied with the city's Housing Code. Therfore, since the program is running ah ead of schedule in original inspect ions, but behind schedule in gaining compliances in th e most deteriorated areas of th e city, th e Planning Department suggests that exJ-ensive time and manpowe r be spent in those areas that have recently been inspected in order to gain lasting comp Iiances and a general upgrade in housing conditions. To accomplish this end, the Planning Department suggests that the ten Concentration Area Inspectors be use d during the first quarter of 1969 to concentrate on more complete efforts toward gaining more and lasting comp I iances "in those areas that have recently been inspected. Sending these men into the areas they have just covered will enable them to comp lete the work that was only begun with the original inspections . �Mr. W. R . Wofford -2- January 6, 1969 After this first three-month pe riod, it is expected that approx imately one-half of the ten inspectors wi 11 be removed from thse recently inspe cted areas and joined with other personnel of the Housing Code Compliance Division to make original inspections in areas corre sponding with Community Improvement Program priorities during the second quarter of 1969. The remaining five inspe ctors wil I spe nd the second quarter on continued completion efforts in those a reas inspected in 1968. Those areas designated by Community Improvement Program priorities, which will be inspected on an original basis during the second quarter of 1969, were, to a large extent, inspected during the first years of the Housing Code Comp Iiance Program. However, the 1969 program will not send inspectors into any area that has been inspected since 1966 for original inspections. The third and fourth quarters for inspections and reinspe ctions at a rate efficiency from the inspectors. These in priority areas determined during the 1969 will mark the beginning of original determined to gain the greatest degree of concentrated area inspections will take place first three months of 1969. Among the top - priority items of the data processing division of the city is an update of the Community Improvement Program information. If th is update is completed, it will include complete · housing condition information and a priority Iisting for housing improvements. Th is new priority Iisting wi 11 determine th e areas for original inspe ctions for the Housing Code Compliance Division. The information compil e d during the first quarter of 1969 will show those areas of the city that must be surveyed in order to realistically determine the top-priority areas for Housing Code inspe ctions . Also during the first three months of the year, if certain areas need to be surveyed, the city can make decisions on surve y techniques and personnel to conduct the survey, including decisions on what type of information must be accumulated by th e survey . Sincerely yours, QJQ~ ~ <¾cR:.~ Collier B. Glad in Planning Director C BG /b ls �