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A RESOLUTION
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, through the work of the
Chamber's Housing and Redevelopment Committee, has supported vigorously from
the outset the efforts of the Mayor's Housing Resources Committee to relieve the
city's shortage of housing for low income families.
As a result of its investigation of this problem, the Housing and Redevelopment
Committee delivered to this Board in August, 1967 a report entitled ''The Low-Rent
Housing Gap in Atlanta, '' which included specific information underlining the critical
nature of the housing need. This Board was informed by the report that the process
of rezoning land suitable and feasible for multi-family, low-rent housing appears to
be the single most difficult obstacle in the task of providing, during a five-year
period, some 16,800 units of the type housing required. The Board also was made
aware that available vacant land is scarce within the City of Atlanta for any use, and
outlying areas have not seen fit to qualify for programs which allow construction of
federally-insured housing of the type which would help meet the current need.
A resolution by this Board in September, 1967 urged immediate steps by the
City of Atlanta Planning Department and the Board of Aldermen to adopt an updated
land use plan, from which a new zoning ordinance could be evolved. The resolution
further declared: "...Any new zoning plan adopted by the City of Atlanta should make
provision for adequate land for multi-family housing and open up land for increased
density of housing in all quadrants of the city, in order to serve the best interests
of a changing and progressive City of Atlanta."
Since that time, diligent study has been given by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
to a proposed "package zoning plan,"' the purpose of which would be to rezone simul-
taneously several sites of land throughout the city for development in public housing.
Be it resolved that the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors reit-
erates its position in spppore of eines ee eS pee to all quadrants
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And be it further resolved that the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
supports the principle of the package zoning proposal as an approach well worth con-
sidering toward the efforts to alleviate this serious problem in our community.
Submitted to the Board of Directors
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
April 10, 1968
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, through the work of the
Chamber's Housing and Redevelopment Committee, has supported vigorously from
the outset the efforts of the Mayor's Housing Resources Committee to relieve the
city's shortage of housing for low income families.
As a result of its investigation of this problem, the Housing and Redevelopment
Committee delivered to this Board in August, 1967 a report entitled ''The Low-Rent
Housing Gap in Atlanta, '' which included specific information underlining the critical
nature of the housing need. This Board was informed by the report that the process
of rezoning land suitable and feasible for multi-family, low-rent housing appears to
be the single most difficult obstacle in the task of providing, during a five-year
period, some 16,800 units of the type housing required. The Board also was made
aware that available vacant land is scarce within the City of Atlanta for any use, and
outlying areas have not seen fit to qualify for programs which allow construction of
federally-insured housing of the type which would help meet the current need.
A resolution by this Board in September, 1967 urged immediate steps by the
City of Atlanta Planning Department and the Board of Aldermen to adopt an updated
land use plan, from which a new zoning ordinance could be evolved. The resolution
further declared: "...Any new zoning plan adopted by the City of Atlanta should make
provision for adequate land for multi-family housing and open up land for increased
density of housing in all quadrants of the city, in order to serve the best interests
of a changing and progressive City of Atlanta."
Since that time, diligent study has been given by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
to a proposed "package zoning plan,"' the purpose of which would be to rezone simul-
taneously several sites of land throughout the city for development in public housing.
Be it resolved that the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors reit-
erates its position in spppore of eines ee eS pee to all quadrants
of the cay Howeve T 304 pbhe-Her o-and-Redew 23
And be it further resolved that the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
supports the principle of the package zoning proposal as an approach well worth con-
sidering toward the efforts to alleviate this serious problem in our community.
Submitted to the Board of Directors
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
April 10, 1968