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CiTy OF ATLANTA
CITY HALL ATLANTA, GA. 30303
Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING
COLLIER B. GLADIN, Director
November 7, 1967
Members of the Board of Aldermen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia
Gentlemen:
During the past two to three months the Planning Department has been conducting
a study of community problems in the Northwest Browntown Area. The study developed
out of the Browntown zoning issue on August 10, 1967.
The Browntown zoning issue concerned a hearing before the Zoning Committee
on a request for a change in zoning of a portion of property coverning about fifty acres
and located north of Browntown Road and west of James Jackson Parkway from light
industrial to apartments. The purpose of the rezoning was to allow the construction of
510 low cost housing units under the "turnkey" program for public housing.
However, due to concern by residents of the area that current school, park and
sewer facilities are already inadequate for the existing population and would be further
overburdened by the new development, the Zoning Committee recommended adversely on
the request for rezoning. In the Planning Department's efforts to find new ways in developing
citizen involvement in the planning process, we assigned two planners to conduct a study
so that both residents and city officials would have a sounder framework for dealing with
the community's problems.
Enclosed herewith is a copy of the study entitled "Northwest-Browntown Area,
A Community Study". It is hoped that upon review by the Planning & Development. Committee
the study will be adopted as a preliminary plan for the Northwest Browntown Area.
Sincerely yours,
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Collier B. Gladin
Planning Director