In June 1948 the county announced that it would be moving forward with 'finding' an additional $25,000 to pay for the remaining homes in the area. The Garden Hills Civic Club pushed for the development of a park citing the need to "provide a badly needed recreational area for the young people in the section," and to "eliminate a breeding place of crime and a cesspool of filth." The county moved forward with their plans, and in October evicted nine families, with the intent to evict another twenty families, all of whom had been renting back their previously owned homes. Despite the eviction of twenty-nine families, the county had not yet bought sixteen of the properties from owners, and cited in October 1948 that the funds to do so had been exhausted. In November 1948, the Fulton County Commission, approved $50,000 in additional money to be raised to purchase the sixteen properties "before the end of the year," and Commissioner Jim Aldredge praised Chairman R L Doyal for his "continuous efforts to develop the area and deplored criticism directed at the Chairman by a Buckhead newspaper."
