University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 11, 1989
Housing-project plans anger Lawrence group
By Dave Wakefield Kansan staff writer
Members of the Breezedale Neighborhood Association asked city commissioners last night to halt a public housing project planned for their neighborhood, but commissioners sent the request back to housing authority members.
Earlier this year, the commission approved plans of the Lawrence Housing Authority to build a scatter-site house in South Lawrence at the 33-39 Winona Ave, lot. Through the scatter-site program, single-family houses were to be built on individual lots throughout the city.
The housing authority decided to scatter sites in order to give low-income residents the opportunity to live in other socio-economic neighborhoods, said Barbara Huppe, housing authority director. Before the program began in 1972, all low-income housing was built in East Lawrence, she said.
Some Breezedale residents bitterly protested the plan for a four-bedroom house on Winona Avenue. After a Sept. 25 hearing, the housing authority agreed to build a three-bedroom house because of concerns about lot size.
Despite the change, Breezedale residents said last night that the purpose of the meeting was misrepresented to them and asked that the commissioners halt the project.
The association was told that the Sept. 25 meeting was to discuss several options, said Bill Bell, representative of the Breezedale association. One option was whether the house would be built, but resident learned at a meeting that the property already had been purchased, he said.
"We are angry because of the manner in which we were treated," he said. "We were lied to. We were told there would be options."
Bell gave commissioners a study that he said showed that the property values of houses next to scatter-site houses dropped.
But Mayor Bob Schumm said that if the commission changed any action taken by a designated authority of the city, a dangerous precedent would be set.
"This opens up challenges to the hospital board, to group homes, and to Habitat," he said.
City manager Buford Watson said he did not think the commission had the authority to change a housing authority decision.
"Once you delegate authority, have approved the purchase and have already purchased the property, you can't rescind the authority," he said. "You can't say 'Go. Stop. Go.'"
Commissioners voted to request housing authority members to review the decision and act as they saw best.
Former student kills himself in a game of Russian roulette
By a Kansan reporter
A former KU student died Monday night after sustaining a fatal gunshot wound to the head, Lawrence police reported.
Travis Geery, 20, originally from Tecumseh, attended KU during Spring 1988.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said Geery apparently shot himself while playing Russian roulette in a trailer in Gaslight Village mobile home park, 1900 W. 31st St. The game involves loading a six-shot revolver with one bullet, spinning the chamber, aiming the gun to the head and pulling the trigger.
According to the police report, a friend at the scene called the police at 10:55 p.m. Geery received medical attention at the scene and in an ambulance but died at 11:36 p.m. before reaching Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Mulvenon said police believed that in addition to the reporting party, another friend was in the trailer. Geery apparently lived in the trailer and was the only one playing with the gun.
Student's ride in police car ends in court
Lawrence police have ruled that the death was accidental. Carol Moddrell, Douglas County Coroner, said no autopsy would be performed in the case.
By a Kansan reporter
The KU student arrested Friday for taking a police car while under the influence of alcohol was charged with two misdemeanors and released Monday morning at a Douglas County District Court bond hearing.
James L. Wilson, 20, 1067 W. 24th Terr., received a reduced charge of temporarily depriving an owner of a possession without consent as well as driving while intoxicated, the court reported. The original charges were automobile theft and burglary as well as operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
Wilson was released on his own recognition by District Court Judge Jean Shepherd, and he must appear at an arraignment at 4 p.m. Oct. 19. His bond was set at $1,500.
Police report
A suspect took belongings valued at $240 Monday from a student's unlocked vehicle in the 1000 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police reported.
▶ A student's unattended purse and its contents, valued together at $33, were taken Monday from Hoch Auditorium, KU police reported.
▶ A KUID and bus pass valued together at $50 were taken Saturday from Watson Library. KU police reported.
A KUID, bus pass and cash valued together at $70 were taken Saturday from the lobby of Lewis Hall, KU police reported.
▷ A KUID, bus pass and driver's license valued together at $60 were taken Friday from an unreported location, KU police reported.
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