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WEAVER OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING.AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY: JOHN 

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GENTLEMEN: 

THE NEWARK HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS ADVERTISED A PUBLIC 

HEARING ON A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE FAIRMOUNT UREA 

RENEWAL PROJECT PLAN TO CHANGE THS LAND USE OF A FORTION 

OF THAT PROJECT AND ALLOW IMMEDIATE CONSTRUCTION: OF 

FACILITIES FOR THE NEW JERSEY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND 

DENTISTRY, . THE NOTICE OF THE HEARING STATES THAT IT WILL 

BE HELD ON JANUARY 31, 1968, AT 10:A.M, AT THE COMMUNITY 

HALL OF THE AUTHORITY, 202 ORANGE STREET, NSWARK, 

WHILE DECISION TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE 

CHANGE IN THE FAIRMOUNT PLAN IS CORRECT, WE OBJECT TOA 

PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME AND FURTHER OBJECT TO THE 

TINE, PLACE AND METHOD OF NOTICE OF THE HEARING. 

IN OUR TELEGRAM OF NOVEMBER 30, 1967 To SECRETARY 

WEAVER, WE STATED OUR POSITION THAT A RESOLUTION OF ALL 

THE ISSUES BE REACHED BEFORE HUD APPROVED EITHER ‘THE’ 

AMENDMENT TO THE PAIRAOUNT PLAN OR THE APPLICATION FOR THE 

MEDICAL CENTER URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT, IN RESPONSE HUD ADVISED 

US THAT THE NEWARK EOQUSING AUTHORITY HAD BEEN INS 

FAIRMOUNT PROJECT PLA 1 WILL No? 

STFNDING CUESTI 

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COMPLEX HAVE BEEN SATISFACTORILY RESOLVED." WE CONSIDER THE 

DECISION TO PROCEED UNILATERALLY ON THE FAIRMOUNT APPLICATION 

TO BB A BREACH OF THIS UNDERSTANDING, 

LAST WEEK UNDER~SECRETARIES WOOD AND COHEN JOINTLY 

STATED CONDITIONS WHICH MUST BE MET BEFORE EITHER HUD OR 

HEW WOULD APPROVE APPLICATION FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. 

THESE CONDITIONS RELATR TO THE SIZE OF THE SITE, HEALTH 

SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE COMMUNITY RELOCATIONS OF PERSONS 

DISPLACED, REDEVELOPMENT OF THE SURROUNDING AREA, EMPLOYMENT 

OF NSIGHRORHOOD RESID: WS IN CONSTRUCTING AND OPERATING THe 

MEDICAL CENTSR, TRAIN OF NBICHGORHOOD RESIDENTS IN HEALTH 

PIELDS, AND COMMUNITY PARTICISATION IN THY RESOLUTION OF 

+ ONLY APTER MEETING THESE CONDITIONS CAN ETTERR 

OF THE TWO URBAN RENEWAL APPLIGTIONS OR THE APPLICATIONS TO 

HEW BE APPROVED, THE PRECIPITOUS ACTION OF THE NEWARK HOUSING 

AUTHORITY AND THE APPARENT APPROVAL GIVEN BY HUD TO THIS 

ACTION, WILL UNDERMINE ALL EFFORTS TOWARD AN AUTCABLE SETIIE~ 

MENT. : 

THEREFORE, & PUBLIC HEARING ON AMEN 



THE APPROVAL OF ANY APPLICATION TO CONVEY LAND TO THE 

NEW JERSEY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY PRIOR TO THE 

SATISFACTION OF THE CONDITIONS STATED IN THE JOINT LETTER FROM 

UNDER-SECRI ‘ARIES WOOD AND COHEN AND FULL CoMPLTA i B a io fe “e is fe 
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PROVISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSING ACT AND THE MODEL 

CITIES ACT WILL BE TREATED AS A DENIAL OF OUR COMPLAINT AND 

WE WILL SEEK JUDICIAL RELIEF, 

AS STATED AEOVE, WE FURTHER OBJEC? TO THE TIME, PLACE 

AND -METHOD OF NOTICE OF HEARING, ‘THE HEARING HAS BEEN SET FOR A 

WEEKDAY MORNING AT LO:A.M. AT A TIME WHEN MOST OF TRE MEMBERS 

OF THE COMMUNITY AFFECTED ARE AT woRK AND UNABLE TO ATTEND. 

THE HEARING HAS ALSO BEEN SCE LED FOR THE OFFICES OF THE 

HOUSING AUTHORITY WHICH ARE INADEQUATE TO CONDUCT A LARGE 

PUBLIC HEARING, SUITABLE LOCATIONS ARE AVAILABLE WHICH ARE 

FAMILIAR TO RESIDENTS OF THE \REA, INCLUDING THE CHAMPERS oF 

THE CITY COUNCIL, IN WHICH PREVIOUS HEARINGS CONCERNING THIS 

PROJECT HAVE BEEN HELD, THE REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT 

OF HOUSING AND URBAN RENEWAL DEVELOPMENT REQUIRE THAT “REASONABLE 

OPPORTUNITY SHOULD BE APF oRDED TO ALL PERSONS, INCLUDING REPRE-. 

SENTATIVES ‘OF ORGANIZATIONS TO APEFAR AT THE HEARING AND TO 



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WARREN 

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DEPT. OF HOUST AND URBAN RENEWAL 

WIDENER BUILDING 

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