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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 19, 1974
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Westward Growth Is City's Only Alternative
By ANN GARDNER
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"Go west young man" Horace Greeley advised Americans in a New York Tribune editorial more than a century ago. According to city planers and developers, it is important for the city of Lawrence today. In fact, for Lawrence, west is the only way to go.
Flood plains surrounding Lawrence on the sides make westward expansion the only viable option. Brian Kubota, landscape architect. The danger of flooding from the Kansas and Wakauria rivers prohibits development of the east and south portions of the city, he said.
DICK McCLANTHAN, Lawrence city planner, said the high cost of extending city services north across the Kansas River would also prohibit northern expansion.
Although McClanathan had no definite population statistics for the west Lawrence area, he called it "one of the fastest growing areas of the city."
The zoning plan for west Lawrence is outlined in a 1964 zoning commission report. The area is primarily residential, but could be expanded with commercial enterprise, McClanahan said.
Industries locating in any area of Lawrence would probably provide a limited amount of pollution, he said, and would be unable for location near a residential area.
INCREASED DEVELOPMENT in west Lawrence and the subsequent increase in population would require extension of city roads and additional roads, McClainnaid said.
Proposed sites for new schools are at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and 27th Street (where the driveway is) or Drive and one-half mile north of 15th Street. According to McClanathan, any decision to construct these schools would be made by a board when the population warrants school.
A bypass system has also been projected for west Lawrence, but McClanathan said the highway probably wouldn't be necessary until after 2000.
Although westward expansion is almost a necessity for Lawrence, other factors make account for the residential district, according to John McGrew Real Estate. The main attraction for the west Lawrence area, McGrew said under construction four miles west of the city.
MCGREW SAID CLINTON could even cause a "leap-frogging" effect on development west of Lawrence. The leap-frogging effect could occur if development jumps to the Clinton area and builds back toward the city.
The McGrew agency is developing three housing areas in west Lawrence. Deerfield Park is a 160-acre tract of land west of Iowa Street, between Sixth街 and Peterson Road. During the last two years, about 50 single residence homes have been built in the area. A school and 20-acre park, located on McGrew Avenue and Princeton Drive, is the focal point of the development, according to McGrew publicity.
Alvaram Estates is McGrew's newest addition in the west Lawrence area. It is north of Kascal Drive between 15th and 23rd Avenues, which is divided by the division of Alvaram Estates, is almost surrounded by the Alvaram Hills Golf Course. Both divisions are equipped with underground utilities and a complete set of installations equations set forth by the developers.
A SINGLE-LEVEL dwelling in Alvamar Estates must contain at least 1,400 square feet of floor space. A total of 1,800 square feet must be included in a multi-level house. The roof must be other than a composition roof, and at least 25 per cent of the front of the house must be masonry. Each house must have an entrance compared to five feet required by the City of Lawrence. A two-car or larger garage must be included with every house.
Yankee Tank Suburban Estates is a housing project planned for 1976. The development is planned around a 104-acre Yankee Tank Creek, west of Lawrence.
Sixty homestates are planned adjacent to the lake, with an additional 100 homestates overlooking the lake. The preliminary plans also include a major shopping center, which McGrew publicity said could somebody be buying Center Development" of Lawrence.
The McGrew Agency is just one of several developers active in the west Lawrence area.
AS A LANDSCAPE architect, Kubota works with developers. He has divided much of the land in west Lawrence into lots for planning traffic routes and street patterns.
"I tell them how they can best utilize a chunk of ground," Kubota said.
Lawrence Suburbs Grow West of Daisy Hill
Revenue Sharing . . .
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city will have to have a two year extension when the lease expires in October, 1975.
The city has studied four possible sites for the facility. They are an area north of 12th Street and east of Haskell Ave., the southwest corner of 19th Street and Haskell Ave., and a *a-terre* tract north of the city water plant near *Seed* and Indiana streets.
WATSON HAS INDICATED that the bedding should include facilities for lifting and kneeling.
Kallsen has prepared a memo for the city commission recommending the site north of
The city has also designated about $600,000 in revenue sharing funds for land maintenance and maintenance facility for city vehicles and equipment. It will replace the existing parking lot.
The existing structure has been described by members of the city staff and commission as an "eye-sore" and a "visual barrier" to off and an otherwise attractive neighborhood.
THE CURRENT LEASE rate for the city is about $47,000 a year, he said, and there's "no question" that the rate will be higher because it is too expensive. If the city can renovate the police building at a cost of $500,000, Kallsen said, the renovation could pay for itself in 10 years in terms of money that the city would spend to spend for leasing at the current rate.
Exactly how feasible the renovation of the building would be, and how much good the city could expect to get out of the building as office space, he added, is still being studied.
the water plant. That site is particularly advantageous, he said, because the water and park departments are nearby, the site would require little preparation and there might be a railroad spur on the east side, meaning that a railroad spur for the facility could be built if needed.
Kallen said final approval of a site wouldn't be made until hearings had been held before the Lawrence-Douglas County Judicial Commission and the city commission.
Use of the remaining $265,000 the city expects to receive, he said, will be determined at a later date, depending on what new needs arise.
The biggest allocation from the funds, $400,000, will be used for renovating the firepole department building. About $200,000 will be used for revenue generating funds already allocated to the museum building, and another $100,000 will be held for possible use by Lawrence Memorial Hospital for improvements or expansion. Up to $120,000 a year, Kallen said, will be allocated.
LAWRENCE IS in line to receive about $1.4 million in the remaining three entitlement periods provided for under the original revenue sharing legislation. The city has already committed or planned the $25,000 or about $355,000 of those funds, Kalsan said.
THOSE FUNDS, Kallsen said, would
It will take new legislation by Congress to extend revenue sharing beyond 1976. In the process, it is proposed that money under a new category of special revenue-sharing will soon be available for use.
replace funding now available from existing federal programs such as Urban Renewa
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Emick said he would like to see the city get funds of that kind and assume more direct control of housing and renewal projects.
"We know a lot more about where the money should be agent than the people in Wichita."
To the extent that special revenue sharing, would decentralize the process, he said, it would be a good thing for the city, and would save on the administrative costs of filing applications to Washington every time the city wanted to embark on such a project.
Clark noted that Lawrence had been "deplorably late" in applying for federal assistance for housing and renewal projects, largely because past city fathers had been reluctant to "ride the waves of red tape" to get the funding.
Kallsen said details of special revenue funding have yet to be worked out by the House and Senate.
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