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Tuesday, December 11, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Importance of Planning Stressed At Conference on Land Usage
The importance of land use planning was the theme of five speakers in a conference held in St. Louis, July 28-30, 1995.
The conference, entitled "Space for Me,
You and Them," was sponsored by the Land
use committee of the League of Women
Voters. After the morning conference, State
Rep. Mice Glover, D-Lawrence, spoke on
"The Kansas Approach to Land Us."
The panel was moderated by Tom Galloway, assistant professor of architecture and urban design. The first speaker, Don Williams, senior research scientist at MIT's Earth Institute (CRINC), gave a global view of the land use problem in "Introducing the Earth."
Williams showed slides that illustrated man's attempts, successful and unsuccessful, to improve the land use landscape. He raised the issue, efficient land usage became more important.
RICHARD PERKINS, assistant professor of systematics and ecology, also took the course.
He criticized wasteful use of resources that can't be replaced, such as phosphorus. He also pointed out that naturally is replaced by the weathering of rocks, he said. When phosphorus in the soil is washed into the ocean due to poor use of the land, it is virtually irretrievable,
doing or when they will show up," he said.
"We don't know the effects of what we're
The United States uses more water than falls on its surface every year and is dipping into its ground water reserves, he said. Perkins predicted that a water shortage could be the next possible crisis in the United States.
THE PROBLEMS of the land use planer were discussed by Robert Wiseman, assistant professor of geography. Planners are needed to impose order, be said. To do this, the planner must be able to predict the future, define alternatives, and decide how to work toward the most desirable solution, Wiseman said.
A planning commission can be hampered by being understaffed, underbudgeted and forced to work with weak controls, Wiseman said.
He said zoning ordinances could be easily circumvented by vested interests wanting variations in a zoning. Planning commissioners would be responsible for implementation of public utilities, Wisenan said.
TRANSPORTATION planning is possibly the most important factor of all, Wiseman said. Transportation improvements have the effect of making certain property more accessible and therefore more valuable, he said.
Wiseman said the decision in the early 50s to widen Iowa St. to connect the Kansas
New Act Requires Dealers To Guarantee Used Cars
As of January 1, the sale of any used car "as is" will be prohibited by the new Kansas Consumer Protection Act, according to Linda Triplette, director of the University of Kansas Consumer Protection Association (CPA).
"For a used car, the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose means the car is fit to be driven," she said. "Dealers should have to have to stand behind what they sell."
Triplets that under the new law, all goods and land to carry a guarantee that they will be delivered must
Triplett said seven complaints concerning used cars that developed serious problems within a short time after the purchase had been sold with the CPA in the last two months.
ILLUSTRATING one of Wiseman's points, Dacoff said that in the 38 largest urban areas there are 7,000 governing bodies, so that there is always someone to make a zoning variation for a special interest group.
Most of the cars, Triplet said, were five to eight years old and none of the dealers gave an expressed warranty but told the buysers that the cars were in good shape.
"A good test, according to the mechanics
pulled, would include testing the lift to check
that it is working."
Turnpike to US 59. The plan was to funnel traffic through off of Massachusetts St., but its effect today is to divide the section of Lawrence west of Iowa from the rest of town, Wiseman said. As a result, the intersections of Iowa St. and 9th, 15th, 19th and 23rd streets are the most dangerous intersections in town," he said.
underneath the car and test driving the car," Triplett said.
Darwin Dacoff, professor of economics,
said land was the only original resource.
Ducoff endorsed site value taxation, a form of property tax which puts increased tax on land value and less on improvements.
Daucoff said that with site value taxation, a homeowner would no longer have to fear higher taxes on home improvements. This is because the tax rate is less and includes less reluctance to urban renewal.
Although such "as is" sales will be outlawed by the new act, Triplett emphasized that the new law would apply only to sales made after January 1.
Michael Davis, associate professor of law and member of the Lawrence Planning Commission, gave the lawyer's view of land.
"At least three of the dealers say they sold the cars 'as is,'" she said, and they therefore disallowed any responsibility for the condition of the cars.
DAVIS SAIID that mocs. lawyers viewed land as a commodity, and that situation was unfortunate. He said the commodity view of land was common because of the ease of setting dollar values on land and the difficulty of seeing environmental values.
Glover said that there were 17 separate agencies involved with planning in the state of Kansas. Glover is a member of the Landmarks Council of the Kansas House of Representatives.
The committee has made little real progress or recommendations Glover said, because it is waiting for federal legislation to be written. The committee would have specific figures with which to plan.
"Good planning should pay for itself; it must," said Glover. Good planning will pay in dollars and cents and this will convince me that I would do more than ideas that have been well planned, he said.
Triplet said that a prospective buyer of any used car should have the car thoroughly inspected by a good mechanic before he bought it.
Glover said that organization of planning on a statewide basis is a very technical and complicated problem but people can't just shrug their shoulders and walk away.
Accepting Entries
Entry blanks are available from the KU Design Office in Marvin Annex B for the 20th annual Kansas Designer-Craftman Show, which will be here from Feb. 10 to March 3. Jan. 18 is the last day works will be accepted for the show.
A collection of memorabilia belonging to the late Doris Fleeson Kimball, famed political columnist has been presented to the University of Kansas by her daughter, Doris O'Donnell of New York City, Kimball, a 1923 graduate of KU, was a personal friend of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. She died in 1960.
KU Bus Schedules
in brief
The University of Kansas bus system will be running on a revised schedule during final examinations, Cindy Steineger, Kansas City, Kan., senior and chairman of the Student Senate transportation committee, said Friday.
Steinger said all buses would start their routes one hour later in the morning and the Ridge Court route would run one half hour behind the usual schedule all day.
Collection Donated
The buses will run on this schedule Dec. 13 through Dec. 21.
NOTICE:
All Men Interested in Fraternities - Register Now for the Interfraternity Council's Spring Membership Program in the Dean of Men's Office, 228 Strong Hall.
Profs Seek to Aid Search
A letter about the appointment of an executive vice chancellor will be sent to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes by the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (KU-AAU7) as a representative of the executive committee meeting yesterday.
The letter will ask that the person appointed to the new position has demonstrated sympathy and understanding for the problems of faculty and has strong identification with the faculty. The letter will also express KU-AAUP concern over what is happening to students in selection and offer KU-AAAP help in selecting the new vice chancellor.
*Members of the committee expressed concern about access to Dykes after the new petition.*
J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of history of music, said he hoped that
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wnoewe was chosen would be an administrator trained by university faculty. In other business, the committee decided that Kenneth Cogger and Charles Krider, assistant professors of business, would conduct a survey to determine a more definitive position on possible KU-AAUP bargaining.
Correction
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The KU registrar's office incorrectly listed a spring semester American Studies course in the preliminary course announcements in Friday's Kansas. The course listed as AmS 283 (47), Top Fam-Rel America, should have been AmS 285, Varieties of Religious Experience in America.
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