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·~ .......... t IS TflE An.ANTA . CO!'fSTITIJTION, Friday, December 13, 1968 . . .,- ,,. . ·,. Allen's IIousurng Goal Seems Siure;Panel Pn1shes Zo:n_e ~Pacliage ~Ian' , By ALEX COFFIN slightly more costly 22i(d) (3) Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.'s five- thous-ing. year low-cost housing goals ap- Although Jones' report was , pear sure of being met, the the most optimistic news by far mayor's Housing Resources rnlating to the goals, attorney Committee he-a-rd Thursday. Archer D. Smi-th III issued a And the committee voted pessi'rnistic warning. unanimously at its second an- "We're deluding ourselves," nual meeting to push again the he sa;id, "if we take these figso-called "package plan," which ui-es and quit working. , . We've / means zoning for low-cost hous- got to be realistic and get befo1g throughout all sections of hind the package zoning plan." the city simultaneously. Ba,rlier in the meeting, Ald. ' Two -aldermanic committees George Cots-akis took exception asked the City Planning depart- ment to study the matter last August, but indirectly seemed to hope the matter would be forgotten. Planning department: di.rector Collier Gladin Thursday ' reported no substantial progress had been made on the matter · since August. • Col. Malcolm Jones, sfaff 1 ma,n for the HRC, said 3,2171· ,-units have been completed, 6.278 ' · t. are under construction clj:d 7,337; •-are in the planning stage-a totar of 16,382 since November, I l I 1966. Allen at that time had set a of 16,800 replacement units by 1971. Jones said that some of lhe 7,337 in planning stages may fall by the wayside, but 6,215 uni ts being considered wlll more th;in compensate for -any losses. Jones said that the program is 4,100 behind in the public housing cate,go-ry, but 4,068 in tlie 1goal t.o rema•rks made at this week's a nnual Chamber of Commerce meeting ~hat the city's bui,lding codes are antiquated. Cotsakis, cha:irman of the Building Committee, asked that bhe HRC and the chamber show him specifically where changes would the:lp the low-cost hous,ing program without jeopardizing · health and safety. H such : ohanges aQ·e shown, Cotsakis said, "I assure you you'll get , 100 pe,r cent cooperation." �