UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday. January 13, 1994
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Mobile home residents fear that new Target store threatens neighborhood
By Cheryl Cadue
Kansan staff writer
Commercial development chased one neighborhood out of south Lawrence, but residents of the Easy Living Mobile Home Park, 3323 Iowa St., say their neighborhood is not budging.
"We don't want to be boxed in," said Alice Helmer, resident of the park. "We are a neighborhood. We live in a mobile home, but our home is not mobile. We just can't pick up and move any time we want."
Residents of Nieder Acres, a subdivision southwest of 31st and Iowa streets, won city commission approval last year to rezone their neighborhood for commercial development. Target Inc. took up the offer and planned to build a discount store there.
The residents decided to rezone because of the retail stores and other businesses that were being built around the developments, said Martha Nieder, former Nieder Acres resident.
"The bottom line is, everyone wanted Target to come in and say they'll take the whole neighborhood," Nieder said. "We were smack dab in the middle of a commercial area and not in a viable place for a neighborhood."
Nearly all of the 21 residents of Nieder Acres can now sell their property and move. But south of Nieder Acres, the 217 residents of the Easy Living Mobile Home Park fear their neighborhood will be lost to commercial developers.
To further complicate the matter, Target announced plans this month to build a larger store, requiring almost nine more acres in addition to the 10 acquired originally. The additional land would shrink the buffer zone between development and the mobile home park.
Jo Andersen, city commissioner, said Target's expansion plan was a mistake. She said the city should adopt the Southern Development Plan, a new development plan for the area bordered by Kasold Drive, Louisiana and 31st streets and the proposed South Lawrence Trafficway. Under consideration by the commission, the plan would provide a guide for residential, commercial and industrial development in the area.
"There are 217 people in that mobile home park," Andersen said. "We're not taking their needs into account, but we did when 20 Nieder Acres residents wanted top dollar for their property."
Andersen said she would like to see residential and office development behind Target. Helmer said the Easy Living Neighborhood Association, which protested the rezoning, agreed with Andersen that the mobile home park needed buffering, not further commercial development.
Roger Schenewerk, landscape architect for Target, said current plans for a buffer included building dirt barriers and planting trees.
Alan Jaskiewicz, president of the neighborhood association, said Target had shown good faith in meeting other requests from the park residents.
Right on target There will be a new Target south on Iowa Street.
Source: Kansan Staff Research
Dawn Campbell / KANSAN
"I've seen the developing coming," he said. "People were just scared basically. I said, 'Let's just improve the situation.' And I think we've done a pretty good iob of it."
Jaskiewicz said the new Target plan addressed the association's main concerns over flood control, a better access road to the mobile home park and Target's plan to move its loading dock out of view of mobile homes.
Helmer said that she was glad she would not have to look out her window and see trash dumpsters but that she still would like to know that her neighborhood will not be threatened by further commercial development.
Grieving friends and family find help through counseling services
By Liz Chadwick
Kansanstaffwriter
Murders such as that of Jessica Baker, a former KU student, leave grieving friends and families in need of help.
According to police reports, in December, Baker was shot and killed in her home at 1723 Tennessee St. The man who allegedly shot her, David R. Jenkins, shot and killed himself shortly after the incident.
"A person who has lost someone due to a murder can be very confused and scared," Harnish said. "They may feel anger and/or have uncontrolled crying. In cases such as this, I usually recommend long-term therapy."
In the wake of such tragedies, the surviving family members and friends of victims of violent crimes are left reeling, said Mike Harnish, a crisis counselor at Headquarters Inc. of Lawrence. He said they often suffered from traumatic stress syndrome, a condition shared by many veterans of war.
"The emotions of a person suffering a loss due to violence are strong and free-flowing." he said.
Harnish said suffering people should call a counseling service like Headquarters, which takes 16,000 calls a year.
"Headquarters is good when that counselor isn't available to the person," Harnish said. "We're open 24 hours a day. In a quarter of a century, we've never been closed. A counseling service such as ours helps people in the short term."
In addition to the emergency counseling offered by Headquarters, counselors — such as Melissa McDaniels of Parkview Hospital in Topeka — offer individualized grief therapy.
"The first step of therapy is to educate the person on the different stages of grief." McDaniels said.
She said she drew heavily on the teachings of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a physician whose book, "On Death
and Dying." describes the five stages of grief about death. The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, grieving and acceptance.
"Second, I find out where that person is at in the grief process," McDaniels said.
The survivors of murder victims have special problems that differ from those who have lost loved ones through natural causes, McDaniels said.
"They often feel a lack of control over the violent event that occurred, and they often feel guilty at not being able to protect their loved one," she said.
At this time there are no support groups in Lawrence for survivors of violent crime, said Pat Davis, director of community development for Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center of Lawrence.
However, long-term counseling can be found. The phone number of the 24-hour crisis counseling center at Headquarters is 841-2345.
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