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2 . 6HOI[CM OF YIIKS;Y ]PRIOXIE CY AIRM Mr. Su her stated, that out of the twelve Renewal Areas so far identified, the Sample Street area at present offered the best chance for a significant and successful project. This is a 100% clearance area, with clearly identified boundaries, making the planning simple. The Linden area has great merit, too, since Linden School is scheduled for rebuilding, in 1960, and the Commission could obtain the land for an enlarged school site, while the City could get partial credit towards its 1/3 share of the project cost for the School Building expenditure. The unfavorable factors in the Linden area are: 1) his would be partly a clearance and partly a rehabilitation :roject. 2) Oational and regional experience with rehabilitation is very The above two factors suggest that the planning of this area would take much more time than in the case of the Sample Street area. Since the Commission should show fairly quick results to obtain community support, Mr. Sucher proposed starting with the Sample Street project now, and beginning work on the inden area when the preliminary planning on the first project is completed, in about 4 - 6 months. Mayor oorde asked whether the "Circle Avenue" (Linden) area would not be pref arable from a selling standpoint. He felt that we could acquire quite ail area, inclusive of a playground, and still wind up with a housing section The School money is already committed and will be spent, but if we can use the money School City is putting ih it as a credit against the purchase of the site, and the Housing Authority also participating, our sell- ing point would be much greater. The Mayor also felt that the present climate in the community is not industrial, in view of the existing vacant factory buildings. It was ght out that the cost of widening Sample Street in the Project Area would be about $600, 000, according to an estimate by the City Engineer, and that the cost to the City of the whole Redevelopment Project, including the widening, would be approximately $800, 000. Mr. Pl�ce stated that from what he had learned he was afraid a combined cleara ce- rehabilitation public housing project might drag . on for years.