5) ee ; ff E HERE |/ ee Lf 2 NEIGHBORHOO: DS DISSOLVED ~- jy | DUSTRY ON PARADE, ge eee LOOP... | THE TOWN DRE 1930 ses vol 1 no 1 LAWRENCE, KANSAS OCTOBER 19:75 HASKELL LOO ry e At the July 29 meeting of the Lawrence City Comm- miatur e LS Pp E 3 D WA Yet there were a group of individuals who disagreed issionit was decided by a 4-1 vote that the governing gol that the Loop was either valuable or necessary. These eee ei} a body would continue plans for the building of a road- = ja s 5) gel st ple -ll persons decided to go door-to-door in the neighbor - way called the Haskell Loop. \ | e \ i fat u hoods that would be most directly affected by the : Done \ Ve Vase |_| Loop. It is important to note that they did not go 2 or, eaten Hart Lawrence, be- \ ee ‘| RN, URWN to shopping centers blocks away from East Lawrence gins at the corner of 7th and Connecticut and meanders se * i 5 SS St SCH | to get signers. In the survey area polled, 234 citi- south and east until it turns directly east a ie = |X : > \ = st | zens signed their petition stating they opposed the ee ee Delware (eee fey) ean) be ie | Ne Grr ee | "I building of the Haskell Loop (See map). anywhere from 2-4 lanes wide, and is designed to & 6th |} \ “jd Se fe ee Pac Ae at ee : Ne een aa It was hard to figure. The city fathers wanted it. acs Se | 3 ie ft | | po eee | I The planning commission wanted it. The East : : : Sree z Hee + al “= a..8 Lawrence Improvement Association itself had voted ee ase AARP ui ere ye tione Groupe angi 2 | | Teed: j in favor of the Loop. Yet there they were, those | Bone setvigunlea yown. eee | enes Sant ——_’ | 234 signatures--of those living in the area. fea] | NER te ae a 2 in &) E y A —— The mayor, Barkley Clark, has said: ''There are Bigg] 3] 5 “| ee z e! ol Ml 2 Nas And then the hearing happened. The petitions were two primary purposes behind the road: (1) to pro- aes Fl silest dap * ere] me | resented, The city fathers spoke Argument raged vide a thoroughfare which will remove high volume ‘ = | = 83 A wy ee = ao a yeni: poke. traffic from residential streets in East Lawrence be foie Qe fe BOING Gb aa o a soo a. . Bese at ee oe a ae | | | a | | i ee. \\ ~~ ff To understand the shock that was felt by the petition- fo thé ih ant oe aclidias tie ee Cees Ha ae ee Selita Peg ee oem OPS when the comiissan voted Soot ee: 8 A eee ep de iieak you must understand the reputation of the current es es (tay id EAS Hae noted eae be se | 14 commission for being people-oriented. Frequently or as atid: oe the aaa Parke - fore eal | nl Sie 3 _}(_§ in the last few months the present commission had Pe ree ee ee pace e| Vastra bo rar pes ff responded positively to neighborhood opposition on will be an ever-increasing flow of traffic coming ce ;, | Soest we Sd Ul kev i Suddéniv. thig pase wake cmenielns = sad. into town from Kansas City on K-10, and that the t ie { 13m} sr] sl = me tee ee at ah De eee 8 meer oe route that ae cae «| ‘Survey Area | sist ee FORO O SOROS EBOOK HK Kk ee ee ee toy pol J gt Lt fd PUBLIC NOTICE supports the n 0 oop. = e- ef eh eee Eads ft eabEh) .] S| eee ap petition of opposition to the Has- ee arin Clty Bianer nas civeased ihe. |. © eo eee art Cha aoe og historic quality of the idea in his argument for the E a inal itatdeslonated it Loop. At the July 29 meeting he noted that since HEAVY BLACK LINE IS THE LOOP. THINNER Bit Sey Cb enavec COMBUDILY, 1930 all community development plans have included DOTTED LINE SURROUNDS SURVEY AREA. leaders, but, in this case, to refere to-th ed f P in P d y those whose lives will be most profoundly and direct- nces e need for such a road. ly affected by the building of this road. With such substantial endorsement from the most Al Hack, Chamber of Commerce Representative, diverse sources of civic and governmental authority, focused on the necessity of the Loop to the continued is it possible to doubt the value of the Loop to East health and well-being on the downtown business Lawrence? It would not seem so. district. It's a complicated situation and so we're devoting this issue of our paper to it. We're going to isolate parts of it and try to clarify it to you, to ourselves. Please hear us out. "The road will pass right near my front door, leaving my home and fam- ily on the industrial side of the road, with lots of traffic and noise. I'll soon be on fixed income. I won't be able to afford a move." Ramon E. Romero 916 Penn. ‘Why squander good, sound housing when the town is so short of living space? We have a lot of older people here that will never adjust to this road. I won't, because it will be in my back yard!" Hanna Leibengood 946 N.J. "I've lived in East Lawrence for over 50 years, andi know that we need a lot of other things besides a road. The children really need the base- @ball park. We need good houses for our poorer people. "We can also '@-improve our roads we have. We just don't have that much traffic here." A.R. Bailey 1120 Oregon "If this road comes in, I'll have to look over it from my front porch." Mr. Pringle 1005 Penn. Although their homes will be taken by condemnation proceedings (a bud- geted legal expenditure), those in the path of the Loop will be relocated. Those left on either side of the roadway will not be so lucky. The homes below, SW corner of 10th and Delaware, will face the road (foreground). Her House ii; Bisected in Street Dispute In Des Moines, in 1945, Mrs. Clara Cas- fn Lawrence, Kansas, in 1975, a mild ver- przyk, 44, crippled widow, refused offers | sion (they don't saw youin half anymore) of to move her dwelling to make way for a this is in process. 27 houses will be de- street widening project; the village coun- stroyed. Poor people will be relocated to cil ordered the house sawed in two. Mrs. places where property taxes are higher, Casprzyk, shown emerging from what is neighborhood spirit destroyed in an area left, is living in the one room untouched where people value it, value their friends by carpenters’ saws. (AP) and long-term relations.