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Bluffs area controversy sparks suit against city
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
The already-clouded issues surrounding the Bluffs development became more murky by a lawsuit filed in Douglas County District Court Monday.
The controversial west Lawrence development has prompted city commissioners to go into four closed door sessions, the most recent being held Tuesday night, when commissioners learned that the developer, Raymond Brennan, had ceased to care and its chief building inspector for failing to issue a building permit.
The suit, filed by Richard Zinn, lawyer for the developers named City Commissioners Marci Francisco, Tom Gleason, Barkley Clark, Nancy Shortz and Donald Binns as defendants. Also listed as a defendant was Gene Shaughnessy, the city's head building inspector.
The Bluffs in a hilly area just east of the intersection of Sixth and Iowa streets. Area residents have protested against the proposal to build two 10-room townhouses in the area.
THE LAW SUIT is the latest in a series of events that have stalled the development.
Commissioners had approved a building permit in May, but it later was rescinded when Shontz, Gleason and Sanders to deny the final plot of the development.
At Tuesday night's City Commission meeting, commissioners deferred action on the suit until Sept. 15, when they would for both sides could be present.
The suit asks the City Commission be forced to reinstate the building permit it rewoked in July. It also seeks more damage to the developer says it has submitted by the delay in the 0.8-acre development on Fifth and California streets.
Commissioner Clark said the suit, which is scheduled to be assigned to a district judge Friday, was a legislative tool against the Commission.
"I think the reason for filing the suit was that they (Vangard Corporation) rights before the site plan was discussed by the Commission's meeting," Clark said.
GERALD COOLEY, lawyer for the case, said he not responded to the Vanguard petition.
"We have received a copy of the petition, but I haven't had time to make any modifications made," Cookey says. "But we have taken a timely and appropriate response."
Cooley said the Commission would not hold another public hearing on the disagreements. He said the pending suit did not keep the Commission from making a decision on the site plan for the development at their Sept. meeting.
Mayor Francisco saw the suit as a way to bring the issues to the forefront.
so the law is as a signal that we have our position "clear" Francisco said.
"There is some concern on the part of the Commission over the legalities of the plating process used at the development.
"If the developer is unwilling to remedy what we feel are procedural errors, then the court may be the appropriate place to settle it."
RESIDENTS NEAR the development are concerned about the increase in traffic and the increased water runoff that would occur from the hard surfaces of the development, said Robert the attorney for the protecting residents.
"Step by step, there has been a constant effort to diminish the rights of the public and owners," he said. "We are opposed to the development because we feel the change of zoning was contrary to the plan the city has made for this area—one of the most beautiful in Lawrence."
Courses using computers offered at the University of Kansas since 1978 have nearly tripled, causing overcrowding at existing terminals, the director of the Academic Computing Service said yesterday.
Students find crowds a terminal problem
"It is clear that we are doing a task," said director Jerry Niaumba, putting, "and Director Jerry Niaumba."
The number of courses using computers offered at KU has skyrocketed since 1978, when only 460 such courses were offered in all disciplines. The number of courses jumped to 1,273 in 1980, but the number of terminals has not kept pace with the increase in course offerings. Niebaum said.
COMPLIANTS FROM time-pressed students are common. George de Medina, Lawrence junior in chemical engineering, said that it was hard to get into the engineering computer center, especially when course deadlines were near. The best time was late at night, she said.
"A good way to get computer time is to get into the center computer just
before midnight and stay until 2 or 3 in the morning," she said.
"Every man, woman and child is in computer time," she said.
People who don't have cars are more restricted in the times they can work with the computer terminals because they walk home alone, de Medina said.
Jane Bacon, Overland Park senior in business, also mentioned the virtues of nocturnal computer work.
"It all depends on when your
p院ms are due, when you work and
when you retire."
"As long as you're in before midnight, we almost stay overnight there," she said.
She mentioned the ease of getting on the computers during summer session as compared to the spring and fall semesters.
DAVID FILE, Beloit sophomore in aerospace engineering, said that hour breaks between classes could be used but that they were not practical except
for typing programs into the terminals.
Letting a program run between classes translates into an inevitable break in the student's train of thought when he stops working with the program to attend his next class.
"It's said that 10 percent of a population is debugging it," he said.
The bigger the block of time available for searching for mistakes, the less total time it takes to find them. So the minimal time available between classes is best spent doing something else, he explained.
"Computer time is valuable, and n'g
is valuable when it gets scarce,
he said.
Working with computers in the evening or late at night also takes up large blocks of study time, he said. The computer systems are under peak use, the response times the time it takes for a computer to print a program, is much longer.
"Waiting for the printouts can be a hassle," he said.
...museum affirmed File's remarks.
"Our activity is very peakish," he said.
He compared the peak usage of the computers to the peak power usage of a utility company. Inadequate planning concentrated usage can result in a brown, he said. Under peak demand, computer response time becomes slower.
THE ACADEMIC computing center has hired a billing programmer to provide usage statistics to help the center manage for the purchase of more terminals.
To explore possibilities for alleviating the problem, the academic computer center has launched a 90-day trial of two different types of computer services in September. The center intends to serve that most improves servies, be said.
The new systems would not let any more than the allotted 1400 people call in simultaneously, but they would speed up the computers' response time, Nordland said.
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