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University Daily Kansan, November 19, 1981
Additions requested in development plan
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning commission refused last night to adopt the comprehensive plan for downtown redevelopment until the city's staff could incorporate all of the corrections that have been made to it.
one plan, developed by Robert B. Teeka Associates, the city's Evanston, Ill., consulting firm, was accepted Nov. 3 by the Lawrence City Commission, but in a three-hour editing session they added more than 70 specific revisions.
"I've read all of the letters and recommendations to the plan and in general I support most of it," Planning Commissioner Max Lucas said. "One of the things that does bother me is that no one has seen it in its final form."
THE PLAN CALLS for forming eight specific development districts. The retail core of the plan contains three concepts for expansion of existing retail structures and building more free-standing department stores.
The planning commission expressed a desire to maintain as many of the
historic buildings in the area as possible and to identify areas for bicycle parking, as well as pointing out the type of a supermarket downtown.
Dean Palos, Lawrence's advance planner, said that the area around Ninth and New Hampshire streets could be a possible site for a grocery store that could accommodate the needs of the neighborhoods in the area, as well as the employees who worked in downtown Lawrence.
When reviewing the revised plan, the Planning commission emphasized the policy goals and objectives and added the importance of the three concepts.
"I believe that the maps labeled alternative one, two and three are relatively unimportant," Lucas said. "They just represent what one person, you know, should people feel is a possible way to meet those policy goals and objections."
THE PLANNING COMMISSION was hesitant about making too many changes in the plan because it wanted a developer more freedom of movement.
can become cast in concrete," Planning Commissioner Kurt vanAchen said. "But that is not its purpose.
"It is meant as a guideline for development—not a dogmatic statement."
Hank Booth, planning commission chairman, said that he didn't think that any of the three specific concepts for suburban mail would lead to any suburban mail.
The problem with any plan is that it
Neighborhood groups were concerned that alternative three, which called for a retail cluster of shops near the college, would be a private club, would be a "mini mail."
"I think that in any development competition, we would reject any plan that called for the suburban mail app approach for Lawrence has already proven that it's not interested in any massive mail approach for downtown."
PUBLIC DISCUSSION at the meeting last night generally praised the revised plan.
"I think that the fear about downtown development has dissipated," said Barbara Waggoner of the Citizens for a Better Downtown. "The city had had a
chance to develop a sense of com-
 consensus about redevelopment."
After the planning staff has incorporated the changes, they will be given to both the planning commission and the City Commission for their review.
Booth said final adoption of the plan commissioned by the state planning commission's Dec. 16 meeting.
The planning commission also accepted the repat of the controversial bluffs development.
Developer Duane Schwaas has run into stiff opposition in his plans to build 2-10 room townhouses in the bluffs between the intersection of Sixth and Iowa streets.
SCHWADA NEEDS A building permit to start construction. A permit had been issued in May, but it was revoked by the city in July because the City Commission decided that Schwada had received the correct platting requirements.
Planning Director Garner Stoll said last night that he didn't know if the replat would allow Schwada to another building permit.
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