Box 13, Folder 3, Document 43

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December 18, 1967

RESOLUTION TO THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN ~ CITY OF ATLANTA

PASSED BY THE ATLANTA CIVIC DESIGN COMMISSION ON DECEMBER 14, 1967

RE: ARBORIST FOR THE CITY OF ATLANTA

"THE CIVIC DESIGN COMMISSION URGES THE ALDERMANIC BOARD TO PUT
THE TREE ORDINANCE INTO EFFECT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE FOR THE
GOOD OF THE CITY BY THE IMMEDIATE APPOINTMENT OF AN ARBORIST,
THE COMMISSION SUGGESTS THAT THE ARBORIST BE A LANDSCAPE ARCHI-
TECT, WHO WOULD NOT ONLY BE TRAINED IN THE UNTERSTANDING OF
GRADES AND DRAINAGE BUT ALSO IN DESIGN FORMS AND PLANT MATERIAL,
DELAY WILL UNDOUBTEDLY LEAD TO MISUNDERSTANDING AND WEAKENING

OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ORDINANCE, ‘HEREAS THIS PARTICULAR
ORDINANCE IS AN OUTSTANDING ONE WHICH WILL BE OF UNTOLD FUTURE
VALUE TO THE GROWTH OF THE CITY,"


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