Wednesday, February 4, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Architecture students to design house for city
By Jeremy M. Doherty
jdoherty@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
With the approval of the Lawrence City Commission, the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design now can play a real-life game of building blocks.
The five-member commission approved the purchase of a lot at 933 Pennayland St. for $15,000. The city will donate the lot to the School of Architecture Graduate Building Studio. University architecture students will design and construct a three-bedroom house that will be sold to a low-income family.
"We don't want to overlook any possible projects that could provide housing for low-income families," said Lynn Goodell, director of the Department of Housing and Neighborhood Development. "I think it's worth a shot."
The project is a first-time partnership between the school and the department. Goodell said the project could become a yearly activity.
The city will spend $62,000 in U.S. Government grant money for the project's materials and for subcontractors' fees. The funds will come from a Community Development Block Grant, which is awarded to the city each year by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
City Commission Meeting
Design outlines submitted by Dan Rockhill.
Yesterday, city commissioners:
Approved a request to purchase and donate a lot to KU School of Architecture and Urban Design for an affordable housing project to be designed by students.
Approved a resolution opposing the Internet Tax Freedom Act. This legislation would set a moratorium on many forms of state and local taxation of Internet services. Commissioners said the legislation would cripple traditional street retailers and would provide a tax shelter to online pornographers.
Established a no-parking zone on the west side of Jana Drive between Harvard Road and Holiday Drive.
- Denied a request to establish Quail Creek Drive as a one-way street south from Camelback Drive to Augusta Drive.
professor of architecture, showed that although graduate students would design and build the house, plumbing and electrical work would be subcontracted.
The house will have three bedrooms, one full bathroom and one partial bathroom. Goodell said the city would try to sell the house for $70,000 to $75,000.
She said the school of architecture would repay the city's $62,000 investment in the project.
State of the City address praises downtown growth
Speaking from a studio at Sunflower Cablevision, Lawrence Mayor Bonnie Augustine summed up 1997 as a year for new consumer opportunities in her State of the City Address yesterday.
Augustine said she was passionate about University of Kansas students finding inexpensive and reliable off-campus housing.
"Some of the houses need to update the infrastructure," Augustine said. "We want to see upkeep of the buildings. Some students could be taken advantage of when they live someplace and pay high rents."
The bulk of the mayor's address was devoted to praising new growth and economic development downtown
nomic development downtown.
"Downtown is looking better than ever," Augustine said. "Exciting additions such as the Gap on Mass and Borders on the 700 block of New Hampshire bring not only a great look but even more activity and vitality."
Augustine said that downtown businesses contributed nearly 12 percent of all retail sales in Lawrence, or about 100 million taxable sales.
On the issue of new programs in 1998, Augustine spoke of a planned expansion project at Memorial Stadium, which would provide relief to sanitary and sewer systems along 9th Street.
Augustine's term as mayor of Lawrence will expire in March.
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