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Civic expansion concerns northeast residents
By DAVID STIPP Staff Reporter
A close look at the invaders shows them to be nothing more than parking meters in one of the parking lots serving City Hall. However, the illusion of invasion is for Alumbrun a special effect with a special meaning.
Across the street from Ray Alumbaugh's house at 634 Rhode Island, a swarm of comic book-style space invaders with pod heads on stick bodies appears to be closing in. Partly obscured by a small ridge, the pod heads are bearing down on Alumbaugh's house from the direction of City Hall.
The parking lot he faces used to be occupied by buildings that were part of his neighborhood, an area of old houses and small businesses at the north end of East Lawrence. Alumbaugh is afraid the encroachment of the pod heads means his home may also be swept away by the march of progress.
"The way they're buying things up for parking lots around City Hall that need to need, they might take my house too. Bumbaugh said in a recent interview."
Though Alumbaugh sees the growth of parking space for city administrators as the main threat to homes in his neighborhood, the tide of asphalt seeping into the area from the direction of City Hall is just one of several factors that bodies ill for the city face. Despite a city-approved neighborhood plan that calls for East Lawrence to be maintained as residential area for low- to moderate-income families, the north end of the neighborhood appears to be
ALUMBAGH, A 64-YEAR-OLD RETIRET who has lived at his small, well-kept white house for 19 years, is afraid he would be unable to find a new comparable house for the amount the pay him if his house were condemned.
on the road to extinction as a residential area.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Office's 1978 study reported, "The residential homogeneity is disrupted by commercial uses in the environment and their presence is probably related to the deteriorating conditions."
One reason for the decline is the possibility that downtown Lawrence may grow into the neighborhood.
Because they are living next to the site of a recently proposed downtown mall, some neighborhood residents are reluctant to invest in needed improvements to their houses. They think that their property may soon be sold by commercial development, and that such investments would be wasted.
On June 23, the City Commission will meet with a representative of the Robert W. Teskas consulting firm about possible sites for a downtown mall.
As a result of these expectations of commercial development, and the fact that many homeowners in the area simply can't afford needed repairs to their aging homes, the neighborhood is deteriorating and dilanded houses.
ABSENTEE LANDOWNERS HOLDING AREA lots, in expectation of commercial development, sometimes find it cheaper to let vacant houses deteriorate rather than to fix them up to rent. The 1978 neighborhood study shows the percent of the structures East Landowners have deteriorated or dilapidated, compared to 15 percent in the Oread neighborhood.
A. A. Transure, 640 Rhode Island, said that his house needed a new roof, but he didn't want to invest in one because his property might be condemned.
"They just might flatten my house for a parking lot to go with the mail," he said.
Transue, 57, has lived at his single
story frame House for 35 years. He said the city's recent decision to consider a downtown mail proposed by the J.C. Penney Inc., which would be half a block from his house, was only the second time that have threatened his neighborhood.
"Except for about the first five years I was here, the city's kept everyone in turmoil in this neighborhood with one development plan or another," he said. "I think it's time they tell us what their intents are down here and mean it."
ECHONG THE CONCERNS OF ALUMBAUGH and other neighborhood residents, Tranase emphasized his greatest fear was that he wouldn't get enough money from the condemnation of his house to buy another like it.
He estimated that he would have to spend as much as $75,000 to purchase a new house comparable to his present one, but that he would probably get no more than about $30,000 if his house were condemned.
Transan's estimate of $30,000 was taken from an appraisal made for his house by the city when it was considering condemning it for the Haskell Loop project several years ago, a month before he put a highway through East Lawrence.
"It would be hell to start making $500 to $400 house payments again," Transe said.
"But I don't imagine it would do any good to fight. I talked to my lawyer about it, and from what he said, it seems like you can do a lot if you have a money, but if you had a lot, you wouldn't be living in this neighborhood."
ANOTHER EAST LAWRENCE RESIDENT living near the proposed mall site, Patty Breshears, 735 Connecticut, is also worried about the prospect of commercial development swearing into her neighborhood.
Breshears sees a bad omen in a 1979 city planning study, done for a commercial developer, which estimated
acquisition costs for every residence in East Lawrence north of Ninth Street. The study, she suspects, is a sign that hornes in her neighborhood may fall to the wrecker's ball during the next few years.
"It may be one, or it may be 10 years,
but I don't look for this end of town to be
here after that," she said.
Breshears added that the city's condemnation last year of the Anderson building for a parking lot near City Hall and that what the city wants, the city gets.
"If they can condemn buildings uptown," she said, "they can do it to us. If they really want houses in this area, they would be able to. It would be as easy as pie for them."
Breshears said many residents in her neighborhood were very attached to the area, including her next-door neighbor, a member of the neighborhood's oldest residents.
SMITH, A SPRY 85-YEAR OLD who is sometimes seen by his neighbors clambers around on his roof making repairs, has lived at 742 Connecticut since 1922. He is determined to keep his house well cared for over the years, in which he lives with his invalid wife. Because he was busy taking care of his wife and doing maintenance work on his house, Stuart did not have much time to respond to questions. However, he expressed his stand on the possibility of commercial encroachment in short
"They're going to have to blast me out!" he said.
Not every landowner in East Lawrence north of Ninth Street is displeased by the prospect of community development in the neighborhood.
The wife of Park Hetzel, Jr., RFD 2, said she and her husband were holding several lots in the area in anticipation of commercial development.
"You never know when they're going to put businesses in,"she said.
Schwada, who is involved in two renovation projects in the area, said he did not foresee much development in the neighborhood in the new future.
"IT MOT COUNTING ON any kind of development down there," he said. "There's not a lot of interest for them in the area that I'm aware of."
Despite widespread expectations of commercial development accompanying downtown growth in the north part of East Lawrence, Buford M. Wetson, a city attorney, said he had no intent to change the residential nature of the neighborhood.
downsizing from commercial to residential in that area," Watson said. "On that basis, I think you would have a neighborhood that would keep the neighborhood residential."
"Three or four years ago, we initiated
Watson added that the proposed mall plan did not call for any development east of Rhode Island Street, the area in which residents of the neighborhood
Regardless of the city's policy toward the neighborhood, the fate of the north end of East Lawrence residential area is an open question. But if the invading army of parking meters near Raymond Avenue former homes that dot the neighborhood are any indication, such survival is increasingly in doubt.
Diamonds, gold, other jewelry comprise KU metals exhibition
A full-carat diamond in a gold setting, valued at nearly $900, sparkles through a specially designed glass case at KYU Visual Arts Building at KYU Visual Arts Building.
The exhibition, sponsored by the jewelry and silversmith department and the Society of North American Goldsmiths, is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and will run through June 26.
"This is probably the biggest metal exhibition in the country this year," Jon Havenner, assistant professor of jewelry and silversmiths, said.
HAVEREN IS ONE of nearly 230 artists featured in the exhibition that includes artists from across the United States.
The department began collecting pieces for the exhibition in February and assembling them in special cases before opening. Haverney did much of this work.
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