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Report of Legal Panel Decemb er 9 ~ 1968 . I I In brief$ the ach i evements and act i vities of the Legal Panel in tbe year-to date have been as follows~ (1) Advocacy, drafting and passage by the Atlanta School Board of a local constitutional amendment to allow the City of Atlanta, through its local School Board, to lea se school buildings for a term longer than that of the Ci t y Councilo The research on this project was done by Freeman Hutton and the Chairman of this Committee, and was presented by the Chairman to the School Board on June 28, 19680 The 3chool Board passed the concept of leasing school buildings from private developer s for a long-term in principal, and directed Mr~ Ao C. Latimer" the schocl board attorney~ in conjunction with the Legal Panel draft the specific local constitutional -amendmento to The a dvantage of this local constitutional amendment would be that school facilities could be provided in a low-cost housing project in the form of xental payments over a term of years, thus alleviating the need of the School Board to construct a school facility at high initial costs, and thus providing the project with necessary community fa c i lit ies o The most oft-used ex cuse in opposition to zoning proper ty f or low- cost housing is that no school f acilities would be available; a n obj e ction which would b e come moot after passage of the constitutional amendment, in that the School Board would lease with little diminution in its bonds' credito Upon completion of the d rafting, t he amendment will then be submitted to the School Board sometime in early 1969, for formal approval so that it can be rea died for the 1970 Legislature and subsequent referendumo As a practical matter, the leas ing arrangements in Urban areas will probably be required to contain an option to purchase vested i n the School Board in that City credit against Federal Funds could only b e al lowed in structures which were a public facility; ac cording to Mr Neil Zi ttrauer, o f the Depar tment of Housing and Urban Development, Re newal Assis t a nce Admini~trationo 0 (2) The Legal Panel, through its Chairman, drafted the Package Zoning Proposal, presented to the Board of Aldermen on August 2, 1968, and assisted in the publ icity surr ounding the presentation of said p r oposa l on August 2, 19680 (3 ) The Legal Pa nel, throu gh its Cha i rman, serv e d on an Ad Hoc Committee , r eview ing t he tota l purposes of t he Committ ee o This Ad Hoc Committee rev i e wed a report of Colonel Jones , dated Febr uary 7, 1968, and made its c omments to the full Housing Resources Committee o (4) Mr o Freema n Hu t t on del i vered a report on the Hous i ng and Urban Development Act of 1 9 68 0 At t he conclusion of the report, Mro Hutton was charged with the res ponsibility of working with Mr o Bill Gates to compile a detailed analysis of the Act and its affect Encl: le �2 on Housing Resources Committee activities. The Legal Panel is presently working on Housing Code enforcement, inability of certain slum dwellers to obtain building permits in nonconforming areas of the City, as well as its continued analysis of the Ho~sing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and continued participation

tn tb,e .School Board amendment involving leasing.

Archer D. Smith, III Chairman, Legal Panel �