University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 25, 1992
Land owners doubt parkway's purpose
By Andy Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence property owners whose land would be affected by the Lawrence Eastern Parkway grilled Lawrence City Commissioners and the project's engineer last night about the purpose of the $14.7 million road.
Ed Mulcahy of JBM Consulting Engineers from Kansas City, Mo., presented the commission with a report that detailed the route for the 3.5-mile parkway, which would connect downtown Lawrence to Kansas Highway10.
Starting at Seventh and New York streets, the proposed parkway follows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad track until the Noria Road, two miles east of the city limits. It would follow Noria Road until it connected to Kansas Highway 10.
Mulcahy said the purpose of the parkway was to help relieve traffic congestion in east Lawrence.
"The parkway presents three benefits," he said. "It is consistent with the long-range planning of the city, it is removing large traffic volumes from
residential areas and thus it reduces traffic and pedestrian accidents."
He also said that the parkway construction would raze two businesses and three residences, and that highway and city officials would help relocate or move homes and businesses that would be torn down.
The explanation of the road's purpose did not satisfy Dwane Schake, who lives on East 11th Street. The parkway would take out more than 70 acres of his property, he said.
"There are no assets to this," he said after the meeting. "It won't alleviate anything. It seems to be a great waste of money to taxpayers."
Plans for the parkway would knock out Murphy Furniture Service, 409 E. Seventh St., and the owner of the busiest relocation would impact his business.
"We need to look at my long-term stability of the business," Mike Huckabee said.
The commission will hear the concerns of property owners and neighborhood associations when it meets with the Douglas County Commission during the next two weeks.
The Visit 2020 task force of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce recommended to the Lawrence City Commission various ways to improve the cultural, artistic and historical characteristics of the community. The task force, which hopes to have the recommendations in place by the year 2020, made the following suggestions to the city commission at last night's meeting:
Task force plans to improve cultural image of Lawrence
- Establish a town square or town center with a garden-like setting.
Establish a town square to offer a New Continuing Education Center at the University, which would create more room for seminars, conferences,
University, which would create more room for sen exhibitions and other community activities.
Development of a resort complex at Clinton Lake.
KU campus.
Development of a link or corridor between the downtown business district and the city
Almee Brainard. Daily Kansan
jan Kubota, head of Visit 2020
The 'task force wants an increase in the kind of tourism our community
Task force to attract tourism
Kansan staff report
Promoting Lawrence's cultural, historical and artistic aspects is important to attract tourists to the area, the author of a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce task force told the Lawrence City Commission last night.
Brian Kubota, head of the Visit 2020 task force, said cultural diversity in Lawrence was a selling point for local tourism. a 980 million industry.
already attracts, visitors whose interests lie in academics, the arts and history. 'Kubota said.
The task force made a list of more than 20 recommendations, ranging from re-examining local sign ordinances to building a new continuing education center at the University of Kansas.
Kubota said the goal for the task force was to see the recommendations implemented before the year 2020.
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