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This is Robert C. Weinberg W N Y Z U critic at large reporting to you on this week's hearing for the city planning commission be held a PAN AM on Wednesday October nineteenth in City Hall United for the usual calendar item involving King is in the city map and in the zoning regulations and district as well as the capital budget there will be some special items on the calendar at the request of the mayor and the city were no Commissioner up for hearing on Wednesday is the designation of two areas suitable for urban renewal one in Holland known of the Millbank proly Circle area extending roughly from one hundred ten two hundred twenty to three three months and like Sigma of a new version and one in central Brooklyn known of the potent park area in the general neighborhood of Atlanta Gavin your poem spring and Armin am a new version of the importance of so designating these two areas has been pointed out by the mayor in a recent talk in which he outlined the need for speeding up the procedures for rehabilitating old structures which can be salvaged and selectively clearing building to blighted to be salvaged as well as adding essential community facilities and improving paths traffic pattern it is essential that these be expedited in important in a core section of the city where both these proposed new areas are located in the Harlem area another significant opportunity would be presented for the systematic and careful planning from an architectural viewpoint of the section surrounding the northeast corner of Central PA where as you know that that mean one hundred ten stream media the place most of us don't know is officially called probably circle but which is probably wholly underspin wish in appearance. It could be rehabilitated if not entirely rebuilt in order to provide a point in the whole I'm so close to haul me on the new swimming pool recently finished and Uncle Parke with an attractive setting worthy of its location among other items to be heard and when Dave hearing is a proposal to map the public park the property long occupied by the famous people change amusement park in Coney Island with the closing of the old fashioned powers upon plans are already afoot for using it at the site of the high rise apartment directly on the one product while this would obviously be a profitable venture and provide attractive homes for many people the Planning Commission will also consider the argument for public ownership of the property and of adding it to the already growing and well designed recreation facilities which the parks the pop and had been developing along Coney Island it's probably this is another example of a situation where the Planning Commission acts of Alberta between apparently conflicting points of view on the part of property owners civic groups and public agencies and then comes up with a recommendation the elected official which will be based on an impartial hearing of all sides supplemented by experts that study that is why it is so important that those who are interested in this particular problem as one as well as in the many other items that you will find listed on the city planning commission calendar when they are hearing to come to City Hall on October ninth you beginning at ten o'clock and make themselves heard the Robert C. wind blows reporting but I will you N.Y.C. on the city planning commission hearing on Wednesday October nineteenth.