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Thursday, April 15, 1976
University Dally Kansan
20-year plan ...
From page one
couldn't be developed for specific reasons.
"The landowner may not want to sell."
Zim said, "and if we don't expand the city landlord, may produce a landowner monopoly."
Some of the guidelines presented by the planning Commission seemed to be taken from others.
"This is not a Los Angeles or San Francisco," Zinn said. "We don't have our urban sprawl in Lawrence and it's doubtful that we ever will - we have urban growth."
Several residents at the hearing supported the chamber's criticisms.
"If our population is going to double in the next 20 years, we're going to be in a lot of trouble."
Finally, he said, the plan appears to be an idealized concept of what ought to be.
"MANY OF THE COMMUNITY goals contained in the plan have no practicality whatsoever," Zinn said. "It's fine to dream—it's important to dream—but to dream at the expense of the community is ill-founded."
Chairman Davis said he agreed with many of the Chamber's criticisms and that they seemed to reflect the opinion of most Lawrence residents.
"Looking around the community, there is not a consensus of agreement that this is a
good plan." Weatherwax said. "It's an inconsistent document in my judgment."
HE SAID THAT A MAJOR problem with the plan was that groups both for and against city growth could find support for their arguments in it.
Saying there was a need to recognize that Lawrence would expand rapidly in the next 20 years, Weatherwax pointed to changes in the city since 1950.
City Manager Buford Watson said that although he agreed the plan should be changed, he thought that a guideline for community development was important.
"THE HAS BEEN GLARINGLY lacking in the past," Watson said. "Although I choked on some of the words occasionally, I have been in that, with some changes, can be used."
"Back then Iowa Street wasn't in, Lawrence High School wasn't built—there were wheatfields where it is now," Weatherwax said. "I wonder where all of this growth would have gone if we had had this plan 20 years ago."
Some of the goals presented in the Planning Commission's guideline are:
—Strive for managed growth to avoid the
difficulties of sustaining enterprise growth.
- Insure a pleasing community image through development.
—Encourage maximum social interaction of citizens.
Library budget . . .
From page one
Less than half the requested amount was allocated for equipment, $14,784 instead of $30,000. The libraries were, however, given the $80,140 needed for the new Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) automated data collection system to replace the present cataloging system.
hoped there would also be an extra allocation next year, but amounts added outside the official budget made it difficult to make long-term plans.
Glinka said regular equipment needs included new chairs, desks, book trucks, typewriters and file cabinets. In addition, he said, special demands have been made for areas of steel shelving, new microform equipment, music equipment and materials to furnish the new art library, which will be furnished by Forsman Spencer Art Museum.
RUTH MILLER, member of the executive board of the faculty assembly, said there was a lack of all kinds of equipment. She said the library staff put in requests for equipment each year but rarely got what it wanted.
"You get so little of what you ask for." for,
say, "you feel like making a photocopy of
your book."
Sherlen Hawkins, microforms librarian,
said some of the machines in her department
were 20 years old and most of them
needed to be replaced. Of the 27 machines,
four are out of order and, she said, these
now would never be repaired.
Another major problem is the lack of staff. The budget gave the library five of the 7.5 unclassified (faculty) staff requested but only four of the requested 13 classified.
Nancy Bengel, circulation librarian, said
the need for classified (clerical) staff was crucial.
SHE SAID SHE WAS also concerned about the number of student assistants. The library has requested $21,656 in student wages, but allocations haven't yet been
Bengel said the lack of staff in the circulation department meant that books weren't getting shelved quickly enough and the stocks weren't being kept in order.
Watson Library is now open 86 hours a week. Kehde said it should be open 100 hours and had been open 93 hours in 1968. Other libraries, such as Spencer, Marvin and the music library, and departments of Watson, are on government Documents, are open even less.
"When patrons criticize us for not shelving books, we get frustrated," she said, "because we know that we can't shelve books."
The number of student hours also decides the number of hours the libraries can stay one year.
SPENCER LIBRARY is open only 45 hours, Kehde said, which is very in convenient for many students, because it can't be checked out as easily from there.
Several of the library staff expressed fear that next year's budget would be harder on the libraries, since this year they had been promised priority.
"It makes you wonder if you missed the peak and an earl ever going to get it back,"
Shankel said this wouldn't be so.
"I believe the libraries will be kept as a palette," he said. "At least that's my position."
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-Base growth of residential and commercial areas on planned unit development.
- Provide an optimum living environment by equipment based on sonic or physical principles.
—Provide maximum employment opportunities.
-Provide adequate facilities and a high level of service in the areas of municipal services, transportation, education, and parks and recreation.
Preserve the historical buildings and structures of the community.
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