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Tuesday, May 7, 1974
University Dally Kansan
City Continues Construction Improvements
By KENN LOUDEN
Kanxan Staff Reporter
Construction and improvements will continue in Lawrence as city planners and government prepare for the city's expansion and growth.
Phase one of the Lawrence comprehensive plan will be completed May 28. Ron Jones, city planning consultant said that the plan should be set aside land in Lawrence should be set aside for commercial purposes. The study will cost $16,000. The Lawrence city commission, city planners and the state planning commission are expecting to approve it by June 30.
Phase one of the plan is a collection of data and an investigation of urbanization trends around Lawrence. Jones said it consisted of recommendations for use of funds relating to new construction and building in Lawrence.
Phase two, which will begin in July, will consist of improvements and new construction.
Plans for Clinton Lake are continuing in good order. Mayor Jack Rose said, and the city is working on plans to reopen the lake.
The Clinton project was authorized by Congress in 1962. The lake will be formed by a dam on the Wakasua River about four miles north of the town. The lake will cover about 7,000 acres.
The dam is being built by the Army Corps of Engineers. Paul D. Barber, district chief fish and wildlife officer, states that the primary purpose for constructing the dam was flood control but that Clinton Lake will also be used for recreational purposes and water supply for surrounding
Ed Dischner, corps recreation director, said four areas would be developed for recreation. A fifth, Clinton State Park, which is to be located on the northeast part of the dam, will be developed jointly with the state.
The four recreational areas will be Bloomington on the peninsula around the town of Clinton, Rock Haven on the south side and Rochester on the lowest west side and the outlet area east of the dam.
Whereas the dam project is proceeding without difficulty, the proposed Clinton roadway has hit many snags. Mayor Rose Sand. That doesn't seem to be making sense.
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., introduced a bill into the Senate that would direct the Army Corps of Engineers to build a 4.1-mile highway from 22rd and Iowa streets to the northern edge of Clinton reservoir at a cost not exceeding $6 million. Lawrence and Douglas County would provide 30 per cent of the expenses.
Brig. Gen. James Kelly, Army deputy director of civil engineers, objected to the provision of the bill authorizing the Army to construct the roadway. He said the army shouldn't have to use its funds to construct it.
"City and county residents can't afford to subsidize the road and shouldn't have to, because the road will carry much traffic. It also connects Kansas City." Mayor Rose said.
The Mud Creek project, after a four-month stalemate between city and county planners and the Army Corps of Engineers, seems to be under way, Mayor Rose said.
Rose said the federal government broke a contract with Lawrence by not completing the Mud Creek channelization project as planned, which would return to the original proposal.
The original plan involves clearing the Mud Creek channel of debris and timber, straightening some of the bends in the stream, sloping the banks and constructing a high levee on the south bank of the stream. The plan will channel a section of Mud Creek tributaries about five miles northwest of the Kansas Turnpike slightly to the south-west.
Construction will begin this summer on a $4-million corrections center, which will be located east of the present courthouse jailhouse complex at 11th and Massachusetts streets. It will house courtrooms and the police and sheriff
departments and regular jail facilities for 50 prisoners.
The corrections center will also have separate sections for women and juvenile offenders. It will have recreational facilities, a place where parents may meet peers and spacemates may meet peer and space for health employment and social work services.
Marylee Brochmann, a member of the Douglas County chapter of the Kansas Council on Crime and Delinquency, said the committee was attempting to make sure prisoners would be provided with proper services in the new corrections center.
She said that a clinical room was included in the architects plans in the center and that they would recommend it to be used for permanent on-call doctor service for prisoners. This would include a brief medical exam for every prisoner entering the corrections center as well as regular medical service and check-ups.
After the city police move to the new corrections center, the present police station at 745 Vermont St. will be remodeled and city offices, now located in the First National Bank building, will be moved there.
Dennis Kallsen, assistant city manager, said construction of a new Massachusetts campus will start shortly in the planning stages. The bridge was built with a life expectancy of 50 years, but it is 60 years old. It isn't in danger of collapse and no emergency equipment is recommended it be replaced.
Some damage has been done to the bridge's superstructure, Kalsen said, and the bridge isn't large enough to accommodate Lawrence. A new bridge would be built on the north side of Missouri and 6th streets and between north and south Lawrence, he said.
As soon as engineers finish a geological study of the ground beneath the river, local voters will be faced with a bond election for a new $3 million bridge.
Walt Craigan, chairman of the county commission, said the bond election may be sometime this summer. He said he expected it to be approved.
Preliminary plans call for the new bridge to be twice the size of the present one, Cragan said. The new bridge will be built just west of the present one. After a new bridge is completed, the old one will be torn apart and another bridge will be built in its place.
Lawrence will have two bridges, each
will carry 100 vehicles. Each bridge
will carry commercial traffic.
Cragan said Finney and Turnipseed, Topeka consulting engineers, are considering the construction of bicycle paths and sidewalks on the bridge. He said the bridge would probably be completed within three years.
Later this year, the city will begin construction of a $6 million secondary sewage treatment plant. Lawrence has a primary plant, but it has been judged inadequate.
The secondary treatment plant, which will be built as an addition to the primary treatment plant south of the river on 8th Street, will take out more suspended solids from sewage water before returning the water to the river.
The secondary treatment addition, which should be in operation in about two years, will be financed 75 per cent by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The remainder will come from increased charges for sewer service.
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., will be expanded soon. Although final plans haven't been drawn yet, hospital administrator Don Lenz said construction is underway for two and one-half years. Proliminary cost estimates range between $9 and $14 million.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital trustees are taking steps to acquire land west of the city.
The new facility will provide private rooms for flexibility in operation and privacy for the patient. It will provide for expanded operating room facilities, expanded emergency and out-patient services and in-npatient psychiatric services.
The new hospital would provide additional services such as an occupational therapy lab, a pulmonary function laboratory and an outpatient surgical
Don Schaake, Neighborhood Development Program (NDP) director, said his department planned more improvements in North and East Lawrence.
The NDP plans to help rehabilitate low income housing in those areas of North and East Lawrence that meet the federal specifications. Other improvements will include installing mid-block lighting, repairing sidewalks and paving alleys.
The Lawrence to K-7 section was delayed about a year because a property owner refused in 1972 to grant right-of-way through his property. His suit was finally
Highway K-10 has been made four lanes from Kansas City to K-7, but the Kansas Highway Commission officials said it would be on Highway K-10 is four lanes all the way to Lawrence.
Schaake said that some of the funds may be used for improving the landscape and walkways in South Park but that such action would have to be approved by the city.
The sites are at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and 27th Street and at a site one-half mile west of Kasol Drive and one-half mile north of 18th Street. McClamathan said any decision to construct these schools would be reported to the state board when the population warrants schools.
A bypass system has also been projected for west Lawrence, but McClanathan said the highway probably wouldn't be necessary until 2000.
John McGrew, president of McGrew Real Estate, said that his agency was developing three housing areas in west Lawrence and Vineyard Tank Suburban Estates.
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Dearfield Park is a 168-acre tract of land west of Iowa Street, between Sixth Street and Eighth Avenue.
Dick McClanahan, city planner, said several new school sites have been proposed.
McGrew said that the preliminary plans also included a major shopping center, but that no one had been contracted to build one yet.
The four-lane K-10 won't run parallel to the existing highway, a spokesman for the commission said, but instead will be built on the same route as the full miles math of the present junction.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce said two more shopping centers should open in Lawrence by the end of the year. A K-Mart center will be built at 31st and 41st streets, the shopping center will be built around an A & P supermarket at 23rd and Ousdahl streets.
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Yankee Tank Suburban Estates is a housing project planned for 1976, McGrew said. The development is planned around a lake on Yankee Tank Creek, west of Lawrence.
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