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$150,000. He also said he planned to build a $200,000 home for himself.
"The interchange would increase tourism to the Lake Clinton and Perry areas and to the city of Lecompton," he said.
With the new interchange, cars would exit, use the county road to U.S. Highway 40 and continue to the Lakewood road. The state said that without the new exit he would go ahead with his construction plans. Residents in the new area would use the gravel county road to travel to and around Lakewood and use Highway 40 to get to Topeka.
THE WINTERS' and Ice do not think the proposed interchange is in a good location.
"The placement of the exit doesn't make sense," Charlene Winter said. "It would be farther to the Lake Clinton campus than it is from the present Lawrence exit."
"Besides, people would have to travel on the country road which isn't nearly as good."
County maps show that it would be about twice as far to the Clinton road from the proposed interchange as it is from the west Lawrence turnpike exit.
THE WINTERS PLAN to fight against the interchange and the Country Club Acres development.
"We would lose land for the interchange and if they had to improve the county roads we would lose more roadway miles." Mr. said. "We oppose this strongly."
ice said, "I can't understand the thinking behind this. When Lake Clark State University in Kansas City was improved to bring people through Lawrence to help business. Now a new tarnipike in town is getting people around Lawrence to the lake."
Kelly said he was aware of the opposition by the land owners but said the residents might not have a choice.
"We just have to show that the proposal would be in the best interest of the public," he said. "The land would be considered condemned and the land
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But Ice said, "We had to find some new land when Clinton came in, and it wasn't as good as the bottomland was. It was better. The economies about us, we lose more land again."
owners would be paid a fair price."
ROD FOGO, Wichita, chief engineer and general manager of the Kansas Turnipke Authority, also addressed the proposal. Although he took no stand on the proposal, he said it would cost $1.5 million to $2 million to build the infrastructure.
It would take an additional $150,000 to $200,000 he said, to operate it annually. The interchange would be built with the company in order to offer Heineman, a consultant engineer, said.
THE INTERIM COMMITTEE will decide if a feasibility study will be conducted. No date was given for the committee's decision.
Fogo said that a feasibility study would cost $25,000.
Beverly Bradley, Douglas County commissioner, said she did not know what part the county would play in the turnover decision.
"We'll have to wait until we know a little more before we decide if it will benefit the county," she said.
The county zoning commission did not approve Kiley's bid for subdividing his land, but Kiley said it was not important because of the size of the plots.
"We don't have to have zoning approval because each plot would be above the 5.2 acres needed to be exempt from zoning," he said.
Kelly said he was confident the interchange would be built and his $1 million project will be constructed.
"I'm sure it's going to go through," he said. "No one has ever gotten a proposal this far before and I sure we'll succeed."
Ice said that before a decision was made, the land owners hoped to have their case heard.
"Everyone thinks the farmer has it made out in the country, but we don't."
"We pay more taxes than most people and we end up getting told what to do."
75 percent said Lawrence needed additional retail. Sixty-six percent favored the additional retailing in the downtown area.
With the uncertain economy, Lawrence should not consider a new downtown mall, Hird said.
Steve Hird, co-owner of Westridge,
said that prospective renters are
curious, but nothing is panning out.
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Westridge, on the corner of Sixth Street and Kasold, and Southern Hills shopping centers, on the corner of 23rd and Ousdahl streets, have 23 store vacancies combined and it is unlikely those vacancies will be filled.
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Holt said that if Lawrence supported the new mail through taxpayers money, the mall would survive.
"Lawrence is not big enough to support a new mail," Hird said. "If we had a population comparable to Kansas with 80,000 people it is not possible."
RON HOLT, OWNER of the Holiday Plaza which has four vacancies, said that most of his merchants had recently sold their sales were ten percent below average.
West said that leakage, the problem of shoppers going to another city, is already happening to Lawrence on a large scale.
The new shopping mall, West said, would be a regional center, meant to serve Lawrence and the surrounding areas. Presently, the shopping areas in New York are of as nighborhood borders and differ in the types of goods offered for sale.
Murray Levin, associate professor of business and formerly a lawyer with a shopping mall developing firm, said
many major retailers would buy space in a regional mall but would not buy space in the existing neighborhood malls.
The type of shoppers in an enclosed, climate-controlled regional mail will be the "foot-browsing" type, Levin said. Specialty shops, clothing stores and major shopping retailers like Sears or Penney's, prefer shoppers who spend larger segments of time in a shopping area.
NEIGHBOORHOOD MALLS GENERALLY draw shopmers who have a specific product in mind. They would not go to major shopping malls. Instead, they park their cars and walk the streets where the product is located where that item is sold. Levin said.
Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs presented a proposal to the city commission which predicted the new mall's impact on the Lawrence tax structure.
In the proposed plan for the Iowa Street location, the company predicted that it would have $182,000 and $233,000. In addition, incremental property taxes would be nearly $30,000. The cost of the project was at between $18 million and $19.8 million.
The cost of a downtown mall would be much higher. West said. The cost of a city center mall would serve the area could cost as much as eight to ten times more than the suburban mall. In that case, city inboxes could be have to be issued, he said.
Co-Op to buy into Wolf Creek
TOPEKA-After five controversial years and $1.3 billion, nuclear power's future in Kansas may hinge on a rural economy, a study shows that the state needs more electricity.
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The plan is vitally important to the nuclear project's owners, Kansas Gas and Electric Co. (KGKE), Wichita, and Kansas City Power and Light Co. because it will provide $200 million for the financially-suiling utilities.
THE COOPERATIVE, the Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (KEPCO), Topeka, must convince the Kansas Corporation Commission during hearings that resume July 1 that future decisions should justify the purchase and that the cooperative examined all alternatives before making its decision.
The controversy involves an attempt by the state's largest rural electric cooperative to purchase 17 percent of the controversial and financially troubled Wolf Creek Nuclear Station being built near Burlington.
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Without this money, many of the interveners in the case said, completion of the project was doubtful.
Through the purchase, KEPCo would become a licensed utility with its own generating capability.
KEPCo represents 26 of the 36 smaller Rural Electric Cooperatives (REC) in Kansas. The super cooperative was formed in 1975 to give its 93,000 customers autonomy from the state's utilities.
DIFFERENT LEGAL, environmental and farm organizations are intervening in public purchases, representing the groups questioned officials of KEPCo and Wolf Creek co-owners in the first round of public hearings before the court.
Kansas Farmers Union, Hutchinson, intervened on behalf of its members who the organization, who said would suffer from an injury by buy power generated from Wolf Creek.
The union questions the validity of the study on which the cooperative based
Joe Muhholland, KEPCo manager of power supply and engineering, said that even if the lower projections were accurate, he still thought a 17 percent purchase of Wolf Creek was both necessary and economical.
Hudson, without taking a stand for or against the purchase, said KEPCO projected a 5.2 percent load increase in electricity demand and a 6.4 percent load increase or a 41 percent difference.
Hal Hudson, KPL director of public affairs, questioned projections the cooperative had made for the future power load of KP&L's system.
"Personally and professionally I feel that Wolf Creek is a good investment," he said. "We are basically a non-profit organization. Our only interest is in supplying the farmers with electricity as cheaply as possible."
REP. BOB MILLER, R-Wellington, said, "With proper conservation practices we can avoid the need we needed. We have a surplus of electricity in Kansas great enough to supply our energy needs for the next 10 to 15 years." Miller heads the House Energy Committee.
"The real question in the case is not whether KECPc should be allowed to become a utility or purchase part of a nuclear power plant," Ron Henickers. "The real question is whether we need any new plants at all in the state. All the hard power growth figures we have indicate that there is an electricity surplus in Kansas, and that this will be to the case for many years."
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THE STUDY, completed by the Southern Engineering Co. of Atlanta, GA., projected an annual electrical growth rate for the state of six percent customers would save as much as $200 million by purchasing part of the plant.
But Kansas Legal Services, Inc. (KLS), Topeka, which intervened on behalf of a low-income consumer, said the annual growth rate was closer to 2 percent.
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A SURVEY OF other Big Eight unions found that the amount of returned checks is not as big of a problem elsewhere.
"If it is more than $3,000 (in returned checks) I would be surprised," Bob Brock, director of the University of Missouri union, said Friday.
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said. "There isn't any. The Wolf Creek Plant will provide the most expensive power possible."
Betty Vodenhal of the University of Nebraska union, said that it had a very low percentage of returned checks. A study was done two years ago, and it found that only one percent of all checks were returned. Although the number has been done recently, she said the numbers had not increased dramatically.
Vodehnal said that small checks were generally more of a problem there.
"People think, 'oh that's only a couple of dollars.' Maybe the ones who are cashing smaller checks don't have any money in the bank," she said.
By KLS estimates, the plant will cost each customer in KEPCo an additional $3,000 over the next 30 years.
KCPKL1's Wolf Creek problem was aggravated by a bitter spill the company had to swallow Friday. The Missouri Public Service Commission, Jefferson County, said it not to charge its customers for its new Indian plant, in Platte County, Mo.
The commission ruled the plant could not be included in the KC&P/1 rate base because the extra power was unused and it would cost the utility $15 million this year.
The Kansas Legislature, concerned that the utilities were getting in over their heads with the Wolf Creek project, asked the governor to convert the plant to a coal-fired facility.
The company also requested a $36.1 million emergency rate increase for its Missouri customers Jan. 28 saying its financial survival was at stake. The commission granted a $25 million increase.
When the KCC hearings reconvene next month, KEPCo is expected to testify on what alternatives were
MULHOLLAND SAID the cooperative had investigated alternatives to the Wolf Creek project, but could not take advantage of the alternatives because of "procedural problems and scheduling."
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"Kansas Power and Light might have sold part of its Jeffries Plant. They offered powered from the KCP&I latan Plant and a Colorado utility offered. All of these plants are coal fired."
"We would still like to participate in these alternatives. But currently, there are none available." he said.
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"Apparently, KEPCo has had many opportunities within the last five years to buy generating capacity from many different sources," Jody James, a Lawrence senior in economics doing research on Kansas utilities, said.
Pat Donahue, attorney for KLS, said: "KepCp's proposal will not result in KLCs being large investors. The large investor-owned utilities. The 17 percent interest in the Wolf Creek generating capacity they propose to acquire is not sufficient to enable a viable business relationship held by Kansas Gas and Electric and Kansas City Power and Light."
Plant's problems linger
The Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant has been plagued by an almost endless string of problems since its conception by Kansas Gas and Electric and Kansas City Power and Light in April, 1975.
The plant, located three miles east of the John Redmon Dam near Burlington, was originally budgeted at about $1 billion and was scheduled to be finished in mid 1982. It is now more than $7 million. The plant and is expected to cost almost $1.5 billion.
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KANASS ANTI-NUCLEAR groups have often demonstrated at the plant, slowing construction even more. At one point, members of the Kansas Natural Guard and its supporters blocked the entrance to a forestry director for the Wolf Creek station arrived.
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In June 1980 a rainstorm caused flooding that submerged more than 100 safety related components under 18 inches of water.
The project was not even safe from the inside. Problems were compounded by bomb threats and the theft of $60,000 worth of tools from the site.
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