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Downtown mall controversy stirs citizen's group to distrust city
By LYNN ANDERSON Staff Reporter
University Daily Kansan
Staff Reporter
"Your distrust in your local government is so evident that I am offended."
Those words, voiced by City Commissioner Ed Carter at last night's commission meeting, exemplified a widening gap between housing downtown development in Lawrence.
On the other side are citizens who resent what they consider unnecessary secrecy and lack of public participation.
On one side are those, such as Carter, who feel that the on-giving negotiations between mail planners and private citizens are a necessary first step in the development
"I don't think we're really that far apart," Mavark Baryck Clark said.
But the discussion belied his words.
CARTER'S **REMAKES** were pointed at the office where they had given the commissioners a set of standards for downtown planning. The standards stressed openness and public access.
CBD also had expressed support for a bill in the Kansas Legislature that would allow joint use of tax increment financing and bond revenue bonds for downtown development
The package of financing sources would encourage commercial developers, and it is strongly supported by Carter, Clark and other city officials.
Under state law, tax increment bonds, which are repaid through property taxes, can be used for downtown development. The laws also require that such as Lawrence to also use revenue bonds.
But CBD had qualified its support by insisting that the bill have "safeguards" to guarantee public participation.
"The procedures used thus far in planning in Lawrence have had something of a destabilizing effect," Barbara Waggoner, a member of CBD, said.
WAGGONER SAID she feared the bill could give mall planters a "weapon for random violence" through secret meetings of non-elected groups.
Carter's emotional response to Waggoner was echoed by Clark, who promised that "the hoops the city must jump through to get tax increment financing are numerous."
Clark insisted there would be "plenty of room" for public input.
Carter once appeared to lose his patience, saying, "For you all to continue to fight this bill is stund."
Commissioner Don Binns agreed, suggesting that local citizens groups did not trust the commission.
"I think there's an underlying assumption on the part of many people in town that we're out to do them in," Binns said.
Although no resolution came from the discussion, the commission agreed to study the CBD standards.
EMOTIONS ALSO were unleashed in a last-minute discussion about the process of selecting the city's mayor.
The subject was raised by Clark, who said he had been interested in years trying to bring more continuity to the office of manager with the commission and the city manager.
The current process is traditional but informal. Each year the office of mayor rotates among the commissioners who serve and the highest number of votes elected.
"I see this as fine-tuning the present system." Clark said.
If that tradition was followed, Clark would be succeeded by Carter, Binns and then Commissioner Marci Francisco.
But in the process suggested by Clark, the commissioners would elect the mayor from their ranks and he would serve a two-year term.
AND IF the process was initiated next year, as Clark desires, it is possible that
It was that possibility that drew fire from a group of Lawrence residents, who said the move was a threat to Francisco and to their right to have her as their mayor.
Binns or Francisco would not get a term as mayor.
They insisted it was much more than fine-tuning.
"A lot of people will regard it as a breach of faith if you do it before 1983," he said.
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TOPEKA-A a controversial bill that could pave the way for the financing of a proposed downtown Lawrence shopping center in a stage in the Kansas Legislature yesterday.
The House Local Government Committee voted 12-4 to recommend a slightly amended version of the bill that mall developers must attract a developer for the project.
The proposal was passed by the Kansas Senate, 38-2 last week and must next be considered by the full House.
The bill, sponsored by State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Dawrence, would allow Kansas municipalities to issue industrial revenue bonds to support downtown redevelopment projects.
Under state law, only tax increment bonds—which are repaid through property taxes—can be used for downtown redevelopment.
There was little discussion on the proposal or on the testimony given during Monday's hearing on the bill. Only the amendment was talked about at length.
THE AMENDMENT would place restrictions on cities and counties issuing
industrial revenue bonds on projects more than three miles outside their taxing areas.
Under the proposal, a city or county would have veto power over an outside governing unit's plans to issue industrial revenue bonds in the local taxing area.
"We're not surprised it was amended," Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, said. "We're just happy it moved out of committee."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, was one of four persons who voted against the proposal.
"We never did discuss the proposal or its possible effects," she said. "When something is moved through that fast, they get stuck." They just greased it right through.
The amendment approved yesterday by committee is expected to slow the bill's progress. Mall proponents, however, were not directly affected would not directly affect the mall project.
About three weeks remain in the 1980 session.
Because of the amendment, the proposal will have to go to a conference committee if approved by the full House before being sent to the governor.
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Many representatives have been opposed to cities using IRBs outside their city limits," he said.
Ernie Moser, secretary of the Kansas League of Municipalities, said he thought the amendment might even help the bill's chances in the House.
Committee members spent more than 40 minutes debating the amendment, proposed by State Rep. Larry Erne, D-COffeville.
But proponents said the change probably would not prevent the bill from reaching Gov. John Carlin's dek this year.
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The chairman of the House Local Government committee, Victor Kearns, R-Merrigan, said however that he thought the meeting should be by the House or in conference committees.
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