Wednesdav. Januarv 28.1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 7
City commissioners reject tougher environmental code
By Jeremy M. Doherty
jidoherty@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A report that would have toughened up enforcement of Lawrence's environmental code failed to capture support at last night's city commission meeting.
Changing the code would require University of Kansas students, Lawrence residents and corporations who own or rent property to pay steeper fines for environmental violations.
The code outlines the expected quality of maintenance for structures within the community, particularly those structures affecting
residential neighborhoods.
Among the measures called for were increases in fines for environmental infractions, such as overgrown lawns. Under the code changes, minimum fines would have risen from $50 to $100, and maximum fines would have risen from $100 to $1,000.
Commissioners and citizens voiced their dissatisfaction with the eight-point environmental report.
David Dunfield, a spokesman for the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods, said the fines were unfair.
"How can people be expected to pay $1,000?" Dunfield said. "That's very onerous."
chose to back away from the report. Commissioner Bob Moody said revisions were in order.
The commission unanimously
"I don't think there's consensus among the neighborhood groups," Moody said. "Maybe these groups need to come together as an entity and tell us what they want to do."
Moody said he would like to see the code enforced through a system that did not cater to individual complaints.
"I think that creates more problems," Moody said. "I've heard of neighbors nearly coming to blows because one person turned the one adjacent to them in to the city. We ought to enforce the code on a uniform basis."
Recruiting crusade
Johnny Schwaller, Omaha, Neb., senior, and Chris Willits, Leawood senior, take advantage of the warm temperatures to promote KU Crew Club. Schwaller and Willits walked across campus yesterday to bring attention to the club and to recruit members. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Caller-paid cellular bills on horizon
NEW YORK — European callers pay. So do Asians. But in the United States, the person receiving a mobile-phone call — not the caller — fools the bill.
As a result, many Americans switch off their phones to avoid unwanted calls.
Now, the U.S. mobile-phone industry is pushing to reverse this trend, which has stunted the spread of go-anywhere communications in the world's leading high-tech society.
The Associated Press
If AT&T Corp., Bell Atlantic Corp. and others have their way, most cellular callers within a few years will pay just like they do for regular land-based phone service.
AT&T, by far the nation's largest wireless company, put the issue in the spotlight by announcing Monday that it would test the option this summer and roll it out for its wireless customers by the end of the year.
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