University Daily Kansan, June 11, 1981
City Commission accepts Oread land use plan
By MARC HERZFELD
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Oreau neighborhood, once the site of violent clashes between police and anti-war demonstrators, is now embroiled in a less violent controversy over the adoption of a plan to change the area's zoning.
Tuesday night, the Lawrence City Commission resolved the issue, accepting by a 4-1 vote the plan favored by the Oread Neighborhood Association and opposed by a coalition of Oread landlords.
Commissioner Donald A. Binnis, who cast the only vote against the plan, said that the zoning guidelines would cause student rents to rise because building
new apartment complexes would be prohibited in most of Oread.
"The demand for student housing will never decrease." Binsn said.
BINNS TOLD THE CROWD of more than 100 people at the meeting that the vote was a "farce."
Bimns supported the Oread neighborhood's current zoning, which is mainly for residential-dormitory use. The newly-accepted Oread Neighbourhood calls for an increase in land zone either for a single families or duplexes.
Commissioner Barkley Clark disagreed with Binns' prediction of a student housing shortage.
"I think we have enough student housing in Oread right now," Clark said.
The Oread Neighborhood is bordered by Massachusetts on the east, Ninth Street to the north, 17th Street to the south and the University's campus along the western edge. Oread, however, does not include KU's campus.
Clark said that already-existing apartment complexes would be allowed to remain under the new zoning as non-conforming but legal land uses.
Buildings are designated as "non-conforming" when zoning for an area is changed but the already-existing building at a lot is allowed to violate the new zoning.
"There will be some down-zoning, no question about it," Clark said.
Down-zoning, or reducing the number of people allowed to live on each lot of a residential area, would be conducted by building an on a block-by-block basis. Clark said.
Binns charged that the new zoning plan would result in "wholesale down"
The president of the Neighborhood Association, Jeff S. Southard, told the Commission that the new zoning plan was needed to preserve the blocks in
Using a 1978 Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Office study, Soutland said that more than half of the land in Oread was used by single families. If all the land now zoned R-D were used for apartment complexes, the population of the neighborhood could triple, from 3,400 to more than 10,000, Soutland said.
Oread with single family homes that were still zoned residential-dormitory.
John W. Lungstrum, a Lawrence attorney represented Oreana landlords, said that down-zoning would hurt property values.
LUNGSTURM SAID THAT LANDOWNERS in Oread often bought lots for their potential value to developers. If the lots were down-zoned, the land would be sold and moved into building single-family homes was not as profitable as building apartments.
However, the Neighborhood Association president said that downzoning would increase land and home value, because potential home-buyers would be assured that an apartment complex would not be built on their
Tim Millner, 936 Ohio, said that his house was on land now zoned R-D, and that he would have no protection from the lease because of the high-density housing without down-zoning.
Miller said that Tuesday's vote was actually decided in last April's election, when Commissioners Tom E. Gleason and Nancy Shontz replaced Bob Schumann and former mayor Ed C. Carter. Schummm and Carter had voted against the plan when the Commission reelected it 3-2 in 1979.
conflict of interest because Gleason had been president of the Neighborhood Association.
One Oread landowner, Jarl D. Ingram, 1903 W. Fourth, accused Commissioner Tom Gleason of a
"My personal interest in the plan is almost nil." Gleason said.
"Five thousand dollars for one block of bicycle path? That's too expensive," Binsn said.
The Commission voted 3-2 to appropriate funds to build a bicycle path on Kentucky Street between 14th and 15th streets. Binns and Mayor Marci Francisco voted against spending the money for the path.
IN OTHER ACTION concerning the Oread neighborhood, the Commission voted unanimously to study traffic patterns and crossing safety on Tennessee, Kentucky and Massachusetts streets between Ninth and 19th streets.
Francisco opposed the path because it would be built on the sidewalk and not on the street.
Summer building hours announced
By JULIA SANDERS Staff Reporter
Open hours for various University of Kansas buildings have been rescheduled for the summer.
The Kansas Union Bookstore,
Satellite Union Bookstore and Jayhawk
Bookstore will be open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Monday through Friday, and
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on some Saturdays. They
will be closed Sunday.
Watson Library hours will be 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p. p. Friday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p. p. Saturday. It will be closed Sunday.
Library will be open during the summer, but hours will vary.
The Computer Center will be open 7:30 a.m. to 2. s. Sunday through Thursday and 7:30 a.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Spencer Art Museum hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Spencer Research
There will also be expanded hours at Robinson Center to accommodate KU students, faculty and staff this summer.
The complex will be available more hours than any previous summer, according to Tom Wilkerson, director of KU's RECREATION Services.
The Robinson Center summer hours are:
p. m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday 1-8:30 p.m.
SWIMMING POOLS- Pool A
Monday, Wednesday and Friday open
lap swim 8:30 a.m. to 8 a.m.;
Recreational swimming 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Pool B: Rec swim 3:30 to 8:30 p.m.
weekdays.
WEIGHT TRAINING ROOM—Weekdays 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., noon to 8:30
Pool A and B: Faculty/staff swim
11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. weekdays.
Weekends: Saturday Pools A and B, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Sunday Pools A and B, 2 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
GYMNASIUMS - Weekdays p. 8 to 30.
p. 30 to p. 30. except for intramural
activities Tuesday and Thursday
tuesday to 9:30 p. 8 to 8:30 p.
sunday p. 8 to 30 p.
RACQUETBALL COURTS-Available any time facility is open except when raquetball classes are in session or special events are scheduled. Court time must be reserved one day in advance at the Robinson Service Center.
A Sunrise Fitness Program is also available. The program will focus on activities in aerobic dance, aerobic exercise and weight training. The program will be conducted from 6:30 a.m to 8 a.m. weekdays from June 8 to a.m. July 31. Any interest may register the week of June 8 while attending one of the initial sessions in Robbins.
Access to Robinson is restricted after 5 p.m. to students, faculty and staff with valid KU I.D.'s. Spot checks will be made after 5 p.m. weekdays. Wilkerson said.
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