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Thursday, November 18, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by RICHARD VERHAGE
Class Over But Sleep Beckoned
At 10:10 a.m. Wednesday everyone was gone but who had a room for 100 all to himself as he slept Erainbay Erainbay, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, through the end of a lecture class in Haworth Hall.
'Guide for Growth' Plans Lawrence Urban Future
BY CAROLYN ROTHERY Kansan Staff Writer
The population of Lawrence will almost double by 1985 to 720,000. It is such a short period of time that put great demands upon the city.
The city of Lawrence has developed a comprehensive program to direct its growth and case the eventual strain. The program includes tables for improvements and lists priorities which must be met.
Developed in 1964, the comprehensive program was part of a master plan format called "Guide for Growth". Although it was meant to become outdated, it is the only guide for the urban future of Lawrence and serves as a public document for the city planners and citizens. The plan is not a law document but a conditions warrant new ideas.
The City Planning Commission spent two years developing the master plan that it published in 1965 and then rebuilt in 1966 by the City Commission.
Dick McClanathan, the acting city planning director, said he has no idea who draw up a master proposal to draw up a master plan in Lawrence. He has been acting as director for four months.
RON SHORT was the city planner before McClanathan. Short left the post in July. Before short took over, the city planning department worked with students from the University of Kansas, in what McClanathan described as a part-time basis. With the assistance of administration majors working on advanced degrees, but they had no professional training in city planning. Short was the first city planner planning director for the city.
Lawrence is one of only seven areas in Kansas with a city planning commission or a comprehensive plan. More than half of the major areas, Manhattan, where Kansas State University is located, recently adopted a resolution to have a city planning commission. K-State is the only school in the state bringing a major in city planning
Outlined in the "Guide for Growth" is a mandatory referral system of public improvements. The Commission, Planning Commission to balance the proposed action against the government into the overall view. The
planning commission gives its recommendations but the city commission is not bound to follow the planners' advice.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MASTER plan are presented in outline form with fow specific facts and details, including dealing with proposed projects. However, there are some things which are relative certainties, such as the Clinton Reservoir which will be located six miles to the southwest of Lawrence, and enrollment at Lawrence is projected to be 21,000. 1973
These two developments will change the physical plant of the city and strain existing facilities in the area. Mr McClanathan said Both will produce extreme traffic problems, centered around the western edge of town, as access roads to the lake are built.
Also involved in the Clinton Reservoir and lake project is the problem of sanitation. McClanahan said the county is now considering a use of the use of septic holding tanks in land in Douglas County. This would eliminate the problems with waste the tanks have with the city.
A VAST NETWORK of major roads belting the city by by-passes has been proposed to help clear debris from the highwayways Kansas 10 and U.S. 59 which pass through the city, and highways 63 and 64 will bring traffic into the city which is not local traffic. These by-passes will allow the non-local drivers to shorten the city safe and quickly enter overcrowded driving situation.
THE MASTER PLAN calls for money to carry suggestions to be made to the state for all improvements, and to make use of available federal funds.
McClanahan pointed out, however, that one of the proposed projects, the revitalization of the downtown area, will not be eligible for federal aid because the Department of Housing and development has given residential area priorities for its grants.
The city plan covers three basic parts of city operation: land use. major thoroughfares and community facilities. Under the facility headings come plans for sewer systems, such as water systems, sanitary sewer systems and storm drainage systems.
THE PLAN does not cover changes in the university and its physical surroundings or specific representations for particular areas.
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Traffic movement has been one of the most important areas of projection in the plan. A proposal for a new design of through roadways, which being studied by the state, county and city road offices, and many of the suggestions of the city's master们 are received favorable resolution from the State Highway Commission to McClanathan.
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Lawrence's zoning code, adopted in 1986, is a set of rules governing the use and management of buildings in the city may be used. These laws decree where houses can be built and how they may be designed. Many much parking space a building must have in order for person working there to be located on the premises.
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The ordinance attempts to insure the safety and happiness of residents in the city. For instance it provides that lights in a commercial parking lot can not be placed in front of disturb people in nearby homes.
BY GARY NEIL PETERSON Kansan Staff Writer
Concerning businesses, the onine ordinance states where a business is located and how it should be constructed and what kind of things can be sold or used.
Lawrence, like other cities, has a zoning ordinance which helps planners adequately provide a safe and secure environment and wans of the city's citizenship.
Ken Jorgensen, Lawrence's building inspector who is responsible for enforcing the city's zoning ordinance, said he has been charged with the zoning codes and that they were adequate for Lawrence.
ALSO IN THE ZONING ORINANCE are provisions that prohibit the construction of buildings in the neighborhood people will not be bothered by raids.
Beauification of the city is also important in a class which requires parking at a properly screened from adjacent streets by a fence or trees and shrubbery.
Jorgensen said that the ordinance need periodic enforcement. He threatened the addition to the zoning ordinance would regulate noise and atmospheric pollution, adding that he would deal with cars and motorcycles, would probably be enforced by the police department.
Air pollution would be controlled by state and federal agencies but zoning could help, according to Jorgensen. It could
There is generally a non-
conforming clause in a zoning
ordinance and it is usually
to as the grandfather clause
AN EXAMPLE of non- conforming use which Jorgensen would like changed is as follows: A house of single-family dwelling and a house of three parking spaces for each two dwellings unit. If that house were converted to an apartment house, it would be one parking space for each guest room or apartment unit.
It is possible that if an older house were converted to apartments, there would be parking spaces and not enough space for spaces and not enough area would exist on the premises to provide for those parking spaces. Consequently, street parking is also arise over street parking areas also arise over street parking.
An appeal can be made to the Board of Appeals for a variance from the ordinance. In most cases it would be granted, according to Jorgensen, if it would be asked to the person seeking the appeal.
KU IS NOT UNDER the jurisdiction of the Lawrence zoning codes, according to Jorgensen. He will say that the state has issued a new rule for the planning of university property. However, fraternities, sororites and private residence halls do have to meet the specifications of the zoning code because they are privately owned.
cover local problems not provided for in state and federal legislation.
Some ordinances require destruction of the property if conformance is impossible.
One change that Jorgensen would like to see would allow users to continue. A non-users license is required which existed before the law and therefore is not required to meet the standards set forth in the law.
Asked if the Lawrence zoning ordinance was strictly enforced, Jorgensen said it was enforced as well as possible with the time and
HE ADMITTED THA':
he demands a change occurreliages a legally required a change in zoning, such as a house being converted to an apartment house, and he and his friends have missed such a change.
personnel he has available.
Jorgensen said it was hard to discover all changes. He cited the example of those residences east of the University campus. Most of them were zoned properly but there were parking problems, he said.
Also, if someone had a furniture shop in his house, which was prohibited by the zoning ordinance, the building industry's office would know nothing that it unless someone informed it.
Jorgensen said that was the way much of the zoning or-inance enforcement was done—on a complaint basis.
When someone comes to the building inspector's office for a building permit, the plans for the building are reviewed and approved and Jorgensen checks it.
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thoroughly with the zoning ordinance. Jorgensen said that if the plans did not conform, no charges would be filed until corrections were made.
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Commenting on sub-standard housing *Josegenius* said the housing bill was much he said that since Lawrence and its residents housed with good standards
Explaining the control methods in the zoning code, Jorgensen sons worked downtown. Lawrence were structurally unwound and when they did so, they built a building permit for remodeling, they were required to bring the project to completion.
According to this law, residents have to meet certain minimum requirements, and if they did the house quite livable, jorgensen said.
No more housing problems existed in North Lawrence than any other section of the city. Joanne McKay and North Lawrence had an improvement association which worked with the building inspector's office.
Occasionally, houses became run-down and dilapidated, because of owner neglect or abandonment, and the city had to pay for repairs. I think that about 200 such houses had been torn down in Lawrence.
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