Tuesday, April 22. 1980
City commissioners favor downtown area expansion
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By LYNN ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
Lawrence city commissioners yesterday voiced unanimous approval for "creative and positive expansion of downtown and redevelopment of the city's master development plan.
At a study session, in which the commissioners took their views to the public for the first time, alternatives to downtown expansion were systematically ruled out.
Plan 95, which sets guidelines for city development, says the downtown should remain the city's regional shopping center.
Commissioner Barkley Clark called the vote "an important signal to developers" not to make bad faith proposals for the submarine or of later proposing submarine development.
at the start of the session, which was attended by a number of Lawrence residents, Clark outlined three options: to build a "corffield mall" in southern Lawrence, to do nothing, or local retailing at status quo, or to expand the downtown.
THE CORNIFIELD option, he said, was the choice of most cities the size of Lawrence. The problem, he said, was the resulting death of downtown areas.
"A cornfield mall sucks the life out of the downtown. just kill it." Clark said.
The choice of doing nothing, he said, uses legal questions because developers must support their own efforts and support for development from city officials. The outside malls are then left without the necessary space.
Clark said the downtown option was the most difficult but also the most valuable, and the rest of the commission agreed.
Commissioner Bob Schumm, a downtown merchant, said that although some residents fought against expanding the downstairs shopping area, most succorited it.
HE SWEPT aside complaints about the cost of downtown development by saying it was the cheapest alternative in the long run.
"There'll be a price tag, "Schuman said. "But the suburban alternative has a more expensive tag in terms of deterioration of the downtown."
Commissioner Don Binss said the issue of increased shopping facilities should not be subject to the demands of special interest groups.
"I'm concerned about the rank and file interests of people in lawrence," Binns said. "I'm convinced that they want a major judge." "I'm convinced that they convinced me it downtwown."
All the commissioners agreed that downtown plans should be incorporated with existing shopping to protect local merchants.
"I want shopping downtown in a way that complements it and dovetails with it as much as possible." Carter said.
The most persistent disagreement among the commissioners concerned the city's past role in promoting development. Carter said he could not understand why developers other than the Cleveland firm of Jacobs, Jacobs had not approached the city.
Commissioner Marci Francisco said it
was the commission's fault for not encouraging other developers and for letting them believe the Cleveland firm "had it all sewn up."
CARTER DISAGREED, saying it was the business of developers to approach a city.
"I think it's a bunch of nonsense and shows a lack of initiative," Carter said, "that developers say they've been frozen out."
Another disagreement concerned timing. Citizens who have met with developers, have scheduled a public seminar May 5 to explain the situation and what the state shall make in negotiations.
Most commissioners said they wanted to attend the seminar, raise questions about alternatives and then decide how to proceed.
Francisco, however, said the city should explore and adopt a set of standards for growth and force developers to honor them.
"I'd like to encourage growth down..." Francisco said. "But I'm really scared that if we allow it to happen without exploring alternatives, we could be in a lot of trouble."
"We want to be able to tell a developer, 'These are the kinds of things we're going to ask you to pay attention to'."
Francisco said that she had campaigned for her office with the pledge of pursuing the law. She was disliked the response of responding to proposals instead of taking an active role in preparing
Complaint may set meetings law
Staff Reporter
RV LYNN ANDERSON
A complaint filed last week with the state agency general against the governor and a city official for not enforcing parent "gray area" in state open meetings to be more clearly informed and unprotected.
The complaint, filed by Patti Hackney, Lawrence junior, alleges that Mayor Ed Carter and Commission Barkley Clark violated the Kansas open meetings law when they attended a closed meeting of Action 80. Action 80, a group of local private associations, was the first past year to draw up a proposal for a regional shopping mall for Lawrence.
But on April 10, Carter and Clark attended a meeting of Action 80 from which the public and the press were excluded.
In recent weeks, the commissioners have begun to advocate openness in discussions of shopping facilities.
The commission has five members. Three members comprise a quorum and two constitute a majority of the quorum.
HACKNEY CONTENDS that the participation in the meeting violated the law, and it was recommended to quorum* "a of a governing body attend a closed meeting to discuss the business of the group."
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But it is far from clear that the com-
promise was to stay silent. Smoo, deputy attorney general, Smoo said yesterday that the complaint raised "legal and factual questions" that hinge on what law would be imposed.
"If they didn't talk about the business of the governing body," Smoot said, "they were not subject to the law. Otherwise free association would be inhibited."
Smoot said that, as an example, two members were free to play a game of golf with Action 80 members without fear of injury. There was no official city business discussed.
THE ATTORNEY general's office will investigate by talking to participants in the meeting and getting a sense of the nature of the discussion, Smooth said.
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But he said the investigation would take time.
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"There is no real reason to rush, because no action was taken at the meeting." Smoot said. "We will take whatever time is necessary to do the needed research.
"I don't know the answer, and I deal with the question more than anyone in the state."
Kansas law has no precedent to follow in case, Smoit said. But a similar question asked at the school board board asked Smoot's office for an opinion. They wondered whether they would violate the open matters law by attending closed sessions and discussing group groups to discuss school board business.
Smooth said his office told the board such meetings would be illegal, and the board opened the meetings to the public.
If the commissioners were convicted of violating the law they could be fined up to $500. Smoot said his office had "discretion power" and could choose not to prosecute.
HACKENY, WHO said he had studied the open meetings law in journalism classes, she said she filled the complaint to create public awareness of the complaints its implications for Lawrence residents.
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Designer says products don't fill needs
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Gadgets of the future could include anti-statting devices, sinks that could be lowered or lightweight by weights that could be folded up for easy carrying.
At least those are some of the visions of Victor Papanek, an Austrian-born industrial designer.
He is also the author of several books on appropriate technology that have taken a critical look at the way American products have been designed and manufactured.
Papanek was at KU last night to deliver the keynote address in KU's celebration of Earth Day 1980, which officially begins today.
According to Papanek, developing countries are wasting energy and raw materials because the United States and Canada are not setting a proper example for them.
For example, pollution associated with cars actually begins with the destruction of the non-renewable resources used to manufacture then, he said.
Americans continue to exploit natural resources and pollute the environment, even as they tell themselves they should be conserving, he said.
HE SPOKE to about 100 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom on "Appropriate Design for Human Needs."
Some products are wasteful long before they are used by the public. Pananek said.
Transportation of the raw materials contributes to the "energy drain," and
manufacture and use of cars results in a great deal of air pollution, he said.
FINALLY, CHEMICAL and visual pollution occur when cars are junked, ending one revolution of a deadly ecological cycle, he said.
"Before we possess something, we should be politely pollution it," Papanek said. "We should also ask ourselves if it can be easily repaired, if it is safe to use, if it can be rented, shared or租借."
Highly advanced societies should help underdeveloped countries improve their technology, but minimal interference in the use of such countries is important, be said.
Ideally, representatives of advance societies should try to give less-developed countries technological "hits" that allow them to be integrated into agricultural processes on their heath, said
ONE OF his students designed a com-
munity homes. Not only could the chair be used by the elderly, but it could also be built by retired carpenters and other craftsmen who worked on them.
Papanek and his students have taught citizens in developing countries to build houses out of fattened tin cans, sheds out of wood and furniture and out of old cloth and paper.
Papanek's inventions include a sink that
Papanek also has been especially concerned with the needs of the elderly and the handicapped.
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