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Wednesday, August 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Kaw bridges progress
The automobiles that cross the Kansas River on Massachusetts Street every day will have a new bridge in November, according to Ron Anderson of Anderson Construction Co. Holton, contractors for the bridge.
Co., Holton, contractors for the bridge.
The $1.8 million structure, which spans the Kansas River at Vermont Street, is being built next to the old Massachusetts Street bridge and will be used for both north and south traffic until a second bridge can be built.
traffic in the first bridge is completed, the old Massachusetts Street bridge, which was built in 1912, will be torn down and work on the second bridge will begin.
The old bridge has been closed to heavy traffic, restricting any vehicle with a load of more than eight tons. A state highway department survey last spring indicated that more than 18,000 automobiles crossed the bridge each day.
The second bridge, costing $1.9 million, is scheduled for completion in late 1979 or early
1979. Anderson said.
1979, Anderan said.
When both bridges are completed, each will have two lanes of traffic. Massachusetts Street both bridges and Vermont River going south.
Neighborhoods affect city plans
that wounded city commissioners directed the Lawrence-Douglas County planning staff to develop growth plans for several city neighborhoods. Pinkney, the neighborhood surrounding Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and Oread, the neighborhood east of the University campus, were given priority.
Lawrence neighborhood associations have recently become involved in formulating plans that would clearly outline the expansion and future land use in their areas of the city.
By JANE PIPER Staff Writer
Staff Writer
ACCORDING TO JAMES HEWITT, planner II, the plans haven't been started yet because of personnel shortages on the planning staff. He said the Pinckney neighborhood planning would begin when the city hired a long range planner, which should be before Sept. 1.
during when the city hired a long-range panel, which described "The neighborhood associations will be directly involved," he said. "We (the planning staff) will work with them quite a bit. In a major way, they will determine how the final plan turns out."
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"We needed the general guide, before we could start on the specifics." Hewitt explained.
Following completion, the plans will supplement the city's Plan 95, a comprehensive growth plan for Lawrence through 1995. Plan 95 charts expected population fluctuations over the next 20 years, outlines industrial growth, transportation and housing needs, parks and schools.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD plans, which will outline direction of growth, will incorporate information about current land use, traffic flow, utility use, drainage and landscaping. They would serve as guidelines, not law.
... serve as guildmen, so they would all set up some goals, objectives and policies." Hewit said. "That's what we're working for."
He said each neighborhood would eventually have a unique growth plan. He said Pinchley's school would deal with the hospital, while Oreedneighborhood's would include the University and much student housing and old West Lawrence would attempt to preserve historic sites.
historic sites
Part of the planning staff's job will be to identify areas suitable for new housing or the redevelopment existing housing. Hewitt said. The staff will also make recommendations to the city commission about zoning changes and possible financing methods, but the commission must make the final decision on proposed changes, he said.
make the final decision for proposed changes, we said.
Much of the research for the Pinkney neighborhood plan has already been completed. The planning commission, in cooperation with the hospital, has already identified eight areas around the hospital that are suitable for doctors' offices.
Hewitt predicted, however, that completion of the plan would take several months. He said later plans would be completed more quickly, after the staff has gained experience.
The agencies and services that are available to University of Kansas students in Lawrence are prolific. These agencies offer emergency food, clothing, legal assistance, drug and birth control information and counseling.
Community services are prolific
Many of these agencies depend on volunteers to serve not only the University but also the city of Lawrence.
Volunteer Clearing House, 114-B Kansas Union and in the Red Cross Wing of the Community Center, refers volunteers to 50 agencies in Lawrence. These agencies include ECKAN, United Wheels Program, Penn House and Ballard Center. These agencies educate elderly, elderly and inaped persons. The offices work together under one board of directors and try to match the volunteer's interests to the agencies' needs.
ECKAN MULTIPURPOSE Center, 1201 E. Thirteenth is designed to meet the needs of low-income and elderly persons. The center winterizes houses and makes home
repairs. It also offers classes for persons studying for the General Equivalency Development test.
United Wheels Program is designed for low-income people who need a ride. It is for specialized emergency use and is not a free ride for students.
Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St., provides emergency food, clothing, medicine, household items and furniture to low-income persons and welfare recipients. The supplies are either free or provided at a nominal cost, depending on availability. It also offers counseling and emergency transportation for welfare recipients.
Penn House can help to obtain low-cost legal assistance.
BALLARD COMMUNITY Center, 708 Elm St., provides a variety of services, primary care and emergency com-
flict. Services include emergency clotting, housing and day care services.
Headquarters, Inc., 1602 Massachusetts St,
is开24 hours, seven days a week.
This agency maintains a 24-hour hotline and a walk-in facility staffed by paraprofessionals on information on both prescription and street drugs and birth control information.
Headquarters also offers guided affective imagery and bio-feedback. Both are methods for self-growth and non-drug altered states of consciousness.
BERT NASH Mental Health Clinic, Fourth and Missouri streets, provides mental health services to residents of Douglas County. The clinic deals with all kinds of psychological, personal, emotional and family problems for people on annual Fees are on a basis of number of dependents. No one will be turned away for lack of money.
Consumer Affairs Association, 118 Kansas Union, handles general consumer complaints and landlord tenant disputes. The agency also maintains consumer buying information on such things as housing, tires and automobiles. It also assists persons working through small claims court or can refer the consumer to other sources of help.
For Pinckney neighborhood residents — first on the list to receive a neighborhood plan—a comprehensive growth plan is their neighborhood would be a welcome relief from urban stress.
"Our biggest problem is the expansion of the hospital and its facilities," Mona McCoy, president of the Pincock Neighborhood Association, said recently. "The chief complaint now is that housing is taken out with every new addition. It drives people out of the neighborhood. We'd like to have some concrete plans."
MCCOY SAID THE MOST important requirement of the neighborhood plan was that it should have as little impact as possible on good housing already existing. She said housing preservation could be accomplished through careful zoning.
Zoning recommendations are also a top priority of the Oread Neighborhood Association, according to James Flynn, its president. He said the association hoped to rezone the neighborhood, which is now zoned predominantly for residential-dormitory, a high density classification.
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A major goal of the association, he said, was to maintain the current population diversity of the neighborhood. Many houses in the area are occupied by KU students.
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"We will also encourage people to maintain and upgrade the older residences," Flynn said. "MUCH OF THE INITIAL research needed to develop growth plans was done in a 1972 study. The Lawrence Area Neighborhood Analyses," prepared by the city's planning staff and the Institute for Social and Environmental Studies at KU. The study identified the nature, cause and extent of blight within each neighborhood and recommended solutions. Heavy emphasis was placed on housing.
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Another outgrowth of the study, and one that is outlined as a policy in Plan 96, is that every housing unit in the city is regarded as a basic resource. The deterioration or removal of houses is to be regarded as a negative impact on the city, the report said. It is a policy that has met with the approval of the neighborhood associations.
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