Scope and Contents Area Planning and Development commissions began in Georgia in 1947 with Atlanta's Metropolitan Planning Commission; other commissions were formed after 1961. The functions of the commissions are to provide a means for area towns and counties to collectively consider economic development programs, to serve as an area clearinghouse of planning information, and to encourage area wide cooperation in developing highways, recreation facilities, tourism, and industrial development. The...

Scope and Contents This file series contains grant applications, third party contracts, review reports, and limited correspondence which are created as a result of the preparation of planning studies by the Office of Regional Planning, Com­munity Affairs Division. This office prepares these studies to investigate local problems, conditions, and prerequisites of economic development, ur­ban and regional planning, and governmental management. The supervision files reflect the administrative procedural steps of...

Scope and Contents This series is composed entirely, and only, of activity reports. These reports are arranged chronologically and alphabetically on a monthly basis. The material found in this series is similar to the commission's Logbooks (RGSGSERIES 66-4-13) and Newsletters (RGSGSERIES 6-4-14), but is most similar to the Annual Reports (RGSGSERIES 6-4-7). The material found in this series isn't very extensive in breadth or depth. It does provide clues of when projects were started. The various...

Scope and Contents These published annual reports contain an account of the area commissions' activities during the previous fiscal year. These reports concentrate on the activities of the Area commission's staff rather than those of the county and municipal commissions within its jurisdiction. The quantity of the information contained in these reports varies widely from commission to comm­ission. Most of the reports are very brief and contain very little information. The better quality of the reports...

Scope and Contents In 1954, the United States Congress passed an amendment to the Housing Act of 1949, which provided Federal assistance to communities of less than 50,000 population, for the purposes of planning their future development by using certain sociological, economic, and environmental criteria, i.e. future land use, economic bases, population studies, neighborhood analyses, etc. Under Section 701 of the Housing Act, Congress made this financial assistance available, through state planning agencies,...

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This series consists of newsletters published by the Area Planning and Development Commissions. These newsletters are listed below. The type of material found in them is limited to small news items (no depth coverage), all concerned with the commission's activities. These issues give an adequate account of the monthly activities of the commission. There are often missing issues within the dates.

Scope and Contents This series consists of loose material which contain summaries of the various programs and activities each commission completed in the fiscal year. This material is very similar to the Comm­issions' annual reports (RGSGSERIES 66-4-7). The logbooks usually have more detailed information, and contain a great deal more infor­mation concerning the various projects throughout the counties within the commission's area. The type of information contained in this series is the following: (1)...

Scope and Contents The published volumes listed below are some of the publications the Bureau of State Planning (now Dept. of Community Affairs) used for reference. They are studies of various aspects of community planning by persons other than the officers and staff members of the Bureau. Most of the studies were made by college and university departments of social sciences. The staff members of the Bureau used these studies as guidelines upon which to formulate their plans of creating the development...

Scope and Contents This correspondence is concerned with the planning programs conducted in the counties and municipalities of Georgia. The Bureau of State Planning and Community affairs was the state agency which approved the local planning 701 studies, and then arranged with the Urban Planning Agency for the financing of these studies. The correspondence and related material in this series is the prelude to the 701 studies listed in RGSGSERIES 66-4-4. The subject matter in this series consists of the...