CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1983
Page 6
Safety, appearance questioned
Safety, appearance questioned City denies request for tower
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Renorter
The Lawrence City Commission last night denied a request from Topeka FM communications to build a 100-foot communications tower on West Sixth Street.
Topeka FM Communications asked the city for permission to build the tower at 2441 W. 6th St. The project would have included a tower and a building to house equipment for the tower on the site.
The Lawrence Planning Commission approved the tower several weeks ago, but the city commission denied that proposal and sent it back to the planning commission for more study. The planning commission said it would not act on a proposal it already had approved.
While Ed Collister, Lawrence attorney, described the tower to the commissioners, three men from the Topeka firm carried a section of the solid steel tower into the middle of the commission room.
The main purpose of the tower would have been commercial, he said. The company wanted to build the tower to have telecommunications in Lawrence.
"In Lawrence, Kansas, you can't communicate unless it is by telephone. Two-way radio communication is not
available in Lawrence like it is in other areas," he said.
With the tower, businesses would be able to have mobile communication with more privacy. Collier said. With the tower, businesses could not be picked up by scanners.
but the proper way is BUT. THE LAWRENCE residents who live near the tower fought the request.
Pete Rocha, 2531 Bemer, fought the request saying that the tower would be in his front yard, and would be unsafe and unattractive.
Speaking for area residents, he said one of the biggest fears was that the tower would fall on a house or a garage.
"We took a tape measure out. Most of us were within 85 feet of the tower. It sounds to me like they didn't measure or their information is inaccurate. My Craftsman tape is pretty accurate," he said.
Mayor David Longhurst said that safety was not his greatest concern the aesthetic qualities of the tower were.
Recha said he was also concerned about the appearance of the tower.
"Even if it is narrower or shorter, it would still be in my front yard. Now they have a gravel drive and the fence is painted five different colors," Rocha said. "What is to say that it wouldn't be another eyesore?"
DOUG FLAIR, an engineer with Topeka FM Communications, said
Lawrence offered a limited number of places to build a communications tower.
"You have to see over the hill and we want to serve the Clinton Lake area. It has to be within two or three miles of the metro area with no foliage blocking it."
it, he said.
If the tower was moved further from the downtown area, the power would be weaker and probably would not be able to penetrate the cement buildings, he said.
A cold weather policy submitted by the Lawrence natural gas task force was also looked at by the commission.
Ralph Turner, chairman of the task force, said the policy would keep utilities from having winter months, even if customers had no paid their bills.
"There is no intention in relieving customers of paying past, current or future bills. But, the utilities would not turn off if the temperature was expected to drop to 30 degrees or below," he said.
THE COLD WEATHER rules recommended by the task force have already been accepted by the Kansas Corporation Commission. Turner recommended that the city commission have the Kansas Public Service Company incorporate the same rules into its policy.
The competition in past years between residence halls, scholarships halls and Greek houses during the Red Cross Blood Drive was discontinued without the knowledge of the non-Greek living groups, the service chairman at Templin Hall said yesterday.
By the Kansan Staff
Blood-donor competition canceled
Marty Hall, Parkville, Mo. sophore and the chairman, said the discontinuance of the contest was "most distressing because residence halls see a lot of this kind of oversight."
senior and coordinator of the drive for the Interfraternity Council, said the misunderstanding had occurred because of a lack of communication between himself and Association of Residence Halls president Allen Robe.
Doug Schoerke, Deerfield. Ill.
CHOERKER SAID THAT IFC and Panhellenic, which sponsor the drive, had decided it was too difficult to do accurate bookkeeping for the contest.
Schoerke said he had made an "ample effort to call living groups and tell them there wouldn't 'be a contest.'"
Alan Rowe, AURH president and Emporia junior, said the communication failure was unfortunate and that in past years residence halls had
donated more blood than the Greek houses. By failing to notify the halls of the dates of the upcoming blood drive they were "going against the overall goal" of collecting as many pints as possible.
Dennis Strickland, Bucyrus junior and vice president of the IFC, said, "I hope we don't need a contest to get people to donate blood."
The blood drive will also be today and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Schoerke said that despite the contest confusion the predicted goal of 275 pints of blood for the first day of the blood drive had been reached
Indian Center loses city's approval
Bv the Kansan Staff
Planning Commission rejected the petition on Aug. 24 because both pages of the two-page document needed to be notarized, said Linda Finger, city planner for current affairs. Only one of the papers had been notarized.
A ruling from a Douglas County District judge yesterday validated a petition opposing the Lawrence Indian Center. The ruling also canceled the 3-2 approval the Lawrence City Commission gave the center last month.
Because the petition was validated,
District Court Judge Ralph M. King
said the commission needed a three-
fourths majority to approve the site of
the Indian Center and the 3-2 vote was
not sufficient.
NEIGHBORS IN THE area circulated another petition but it was invalid because they did not submit it before the 14-day deadline.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said the court action would not necessarily bring the issue before the judge. But he said it would sure what action would be taken next.
The Lawrence-Douglas County
said she expected to see the issue on the commission's agenda again.
"They are going to want this back because they see it as a greater threat, she'll think it will change their neighborhood. However, I don't see that problem."
City Commissioner Nancy Shontz
Mayor David Longhurst said he voted against the new Indian Center in September because the issue did not sit well with the neighborhood residents.
"I thought the trade-off was too great. The neighborhood objected. In fact, almost everyone in the neighborhood objected," he said.
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