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-~ ' -. .... ,... Tel. 522-4463 Arca Cc.Ge 4C4 DEP,\RnlE:\T Oi-' PLA:-.:\,:\G COLLIER D. GLADl:-.-. Cl,rrc10, july 21, 1%7 • TO : Housing Res ou r ces Committee Planning and Development Committee FRO~ : Pla nni ng Department SL""BJZCT: Pre liminary Report - Amou nt of Vacant Land by Zonin; ~ist rict In reply t o the request by the secretary o f t he Ho using Resources Cor..;.~i ttee f or figures showing t he total vn ca nt a c r e a;;e in the C:.ty o f Atla nta, the follo~ing da~a is su~plied. These f igures a=e ~ase6 on co~puter analysis oi the Atlanta CI P Re al Property Jata Jan~, for us~ in the land use planning project, and reflec t condi t ions as of January 19~: Zoning AL Al A2 Acre age Vacant* Total Acreage* 25. 2} · 802.8 /0'/2,2. 214.2 CL Cl C2 C3 C4 R2

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~L,. RS .,v r,O R9 'r,,, . - .. 350.7 4.6} 142.2 1"3 2.,/ 19 . 0 15.6 l, 11 7 )01 (),0 1,973.0 .o} 79~:z} · 632.5 3,172.0 5,133.2 2, 410.7 298.~ ,. 2. 9711/~ I 261. 9} 4 , 287 . 2 62.) , 8 1,687.7 9] 27. 328'9 'j S91. 5 ' 307.2 194.7 3 ' 866. 8 \ 9 7 7 jJ) 5,907.lJ 17.9 ' /7,7 2,308.2i 2,303.2 '")-Sl:, 7 . ~ 1,363 . 6 12,072.8:,;, 18 , 04S.l)' 69L,.l,l 3 'f,<J,0 65 .7 17 ,841.6 2 7. 3 9,248.8 3,340.9 I 1, 17s.~ 13 a'I "1,D r 31 79. 69,631.5 Thew~ ~iJurcs reflect all parcels o~ land in the City as r16:36, 29 December 2017 (EST)2d However, many voca,-..:: ~.,:..-c.:?:s ·J '/ ::;,c .ioint i3oard of Tax Assessors. --· .- �... "'·' } 2}:0~/.~l)UH July 21, 1967 Page 2 arc s ma ll tracts of less than l acre iocat ed in o thc~~i~c ~cvc ~c~ ~~ are as . Therefore, a series of ma?s ~t 400 scaic w~s p:c?arcri s::c~i ~g vaca nt land and zoning for use in the City s land use pl3nnin3 ~re ject . A copy of the daca processin3 listin3 of parce l coGc nu~bcr3 c~ v~ca nt pcrcc l s, zoning and acreage data was ~clive.cd to Steve Sc~~&rcz o~ Ce cil Alexanricr 1 s office during t ~c latter part of A~:il ; ~n~ , &:so du rin g the latter p rt of Apri l, Mr. Schwartz was ci ve n a c cess to t~c 40G scale ma ps in the Planning Department showing these v&can t ? a :cels. These maps were copied and delivered to Mr. Alexander's offi c e prio r t o ~fay 1. On .; ·nc 28 at a meeting of the Plannin~ and Dev elo;i ... e:.t Co::-"7.itte e , a ..:a? of vacant and "under-developed" land was sho,-m i;-i. co;:-.;-.e c:: ~o;:-, with the land use plan progress re~ort . After this ~eetin: , x~l coi~ joncs requested that a copy of this map showing zo;-i.ing of vaca ~~ 3 r eas oe provided to the Housing Res ources Co~-nittee . 7his Qap was prepa r eci by the Planning Department and delivered to Co l. Jones. 0;-i. July 6 this QSp and a ~reliminary analysis of areas zonc6 A-: a~ci vaccnt was presented to the Housing Reso urc es Com.T<itte2. 7~e anal ysis showed a tot3l 0£ 482 acres "zoned for apartments". '.i'r,e a?;:>,,::-e:. :: ~iscrcpancy between this figure and the S02 acres shown in ::~e cia::c proccssin3 analysis can be explained by the fa ct that the Qa?s ~se ~ in bot!-. co ..~putations, althouil1 similar , were not really cor.,;,a rajle. '.i'he map us •din the nousing Reso urces Com.-nittec analysis was at.:::. scale of 2,COO feec to the inch and the maps us ed in the data process ing &nalysis were at a scale of 400 feet.to the inch. ~ue ~o the s~all maps at a scale of 2,000 feet to the inch , acc urate QCas~re~ent is difficult, and, adciitionally, only large parcels canoe shown. At 4GO scale, more accurate representation and mcasureQcnt are poss~bl e.

1c ::-2iore , u:,on rcceip.: by t;1e Plan:-iing Departr;ient of c:,e co.:-..-:1itc.:!2

req0cst for additional data, further detailed Qaps at 400 scale ~ere ?~C?~~cd showing only siBnific~nt vacant tracts (4 acres and larie~). so ~~a~ a ~o ~e detailed listin 0 of vacant land could be ~ace. A

-ir2lir ,i.--,ary ar.alysis has be-2t1 made "uy the Plannini Dcpartr.icnt of each

si 0 niiicant tract, and the result of this analysis is presented in AppencL.x ;. to this memorandum. 7~~ t~?S u~cd in ~he ~nalysis are av<lil~~lc in ihc ?l~nning Dcparc~e~c fo: ~ct~:: c ~ ~x&~:~~tion by interested parties.

he ?.ann143.215.248.55 Dcrarc~cnt ~3rces tout the hou~ing problem in

.:. .. on~ of t .. e major prool~ms facing the City at this ti..1a,

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~ sizni~ican: ~olicy de cision Dust j j Ll~dc housin; to he const ructc rl should b2 o~ th e 2;0. l... CJ. C :l a~ <1 :: '~ :-: (; ~. :.: - -:::(;d i i_;.;7"4 ~cnsity--outlying loc ~tion ty?e or wjc: hcr h i gh risc- hi J ~ dc~sitJccnt~&l are a housing should be co ns i dc rct. Ane t : er ~ro~:e= is ~te poli c y oi relocation i n urb~n renew~l and other trea t=a nt ~c~ivities. Sjo~ l~ t he dis?laccd fa~ilics and i~divi du als b e reloc&tal i~ t~ c g2ncral area of the proj e ct or should a tt e~pts be cade to =e loca~e

he= in _ou:lyi ng area s? ~ hes c are only a few ite~s on w~ic~ p olicy

decisions are necessary in or der to insure that the low-cos : housi~g prog ~ara ~cets the goals set fo r it at aach of the critical :i~e phases ovar the next seve ral years. .... �