University Daily Kensan
Thursday, August 23,1973
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New Rules to Raise Parking Fees, Fines
New parking and traffic regulations will become effective August 28, 1973. Major changes in the new regulations will deal with the collection of parking violation fees, a new color-coded system of permits rather than specific zone permits and a new policy that will treat students and faculty of the University equally.
According to E. W. Fenstemaker, lieutenant in charge of parking for the traffic and security department, it has been a long standing theory of the University that an automobile is not a necessity in the educational process.
Because the use of an automobile is viewed as a special privilege, the state of Kansas will not provide funds for parking in our county. The county has its own funds for maintenance of the lots. "IT IS A FEELING throughout the district that persons who use the parking lots should pay for them," said Mr. Sullivan, who said this applied to both students and faculty.
The August regulation change will provide a color-coded permit system that allows members access to parking lots close to the buildings that they frequent. The lots around the campus will be color-coded based on building height, and several different lots having the same color.
There are still problems arising with many employees about parking registration. Because of the inflationary cost of maintenance material and labor, it is necessary for the price of the parking permits to go up. Fenstemaker said.
PERSONS WHO OBTAIN a specific color parking permit will be able to park in any zone designated under that color. This process will allow greater mobility for permit holders and a greater potential usage of the lots, he said.
"Permits will no longer be restricted to any specific lot." Fenstemaker said, "except on special conditions and for special or emergency parking permits."
Application for regular permits will be subject to approval by representatives of
the University Parking Board during enrolment. Special cases in need of the more highly restricted zones will file their applications with the five-member Parking Board.
VISITORS WILL still be exempt from payment, and at the time they received the ticket, they will receive a parking fee.
However, visitors who park in an illegal or hazardous manner will be subject to the same regulations that apply to students and faculty.
Parking violation fees are organized under four groups.
Violations in Group I are parking in wrong zones, non-designed parking areas, guest areas, restricted areas or unmarked areas. This group also includes fines for legally parked vehicles that do not have ermitts.
Group II parking violations are displaying a mutilated permit, not displaying a registration sticker, not displaying a stickers holder, not displaying stickers and displaying obsolete stickers.
AFTER THE AUGUST CHANGE, fees for Group I Volunteers will be $5.
There will be no fee assessed for Group II violations if they are corrected within seven days. If the warning is ignored, however, the fine will be $5.
Forged or altered parking stickers or permits will constitute a Group IV violation. Persons receiving Group IV fines will have to pay $25 fine and tow charges, suffered to pay a $2 fine and tow charges.
GROUP III WILL consist of violations that are hazardous. These are blocking a drive or roadway, restricting normal flow of traffic, parking in a designated fire lane, parking adjacent to a fire hydrant or storing equipment in university premises without authorization.
Group III violations will entail a $10 fine plus an automatic tow. Violators will be subject to all previous unpaid violations and tow charges.
Any parking violation fee that remains unpaid after 14 days of receipt of the ticket is subject to a fine.
Realty Meets Reality Of Burgeoning Costs
By DON ASHTON
Kansan Staff Writer
Country dreamers, leaf-treaders, soil-
owners, gardeners, your visitors
are moving more expensively.
The value of farm land is at its highest
coût in 22 years, according to a recent
research. Farmers should be wary.
Nationally, farm real estate values jumped 13 per cent in the last year. Douglas
Max Good, owner of Brown Real Co.
maximizes in dealing in local farm properties
only.
"That's about right for here." Good said.
Values are probably up from 10 to 13 per cent.
"You don't see too many farmers buying more land," Good said. "They can't afford it. The average farmer has been priced out of the market."
IT'S NOT NEWS to students that rental properties in the country are scarce. Good said they were almost a thing of the past. There is not much available to buy either, so renters must get them. Getting back to the land is even getting to be an expensive proposition for farmers.
LAND, LIKE ANY other commodity, is worth what people will pay for it. There is only so much land. The supply is constant and the demand continues to *p*<sub>row</sub>, mostly
Although land prices vary locally, depending upon the current state of the economy, they are generally stable.
provements, availability of services and potential, Good quoted some average figures.
He said upland farms now sell for about $400 to $600 an acre, pasture land from $300 to $500 an acre, bottom land from $600 to $100 an acre, and timber land for up to about $200 an acre.
LAND BORDERING the Clinton area is going for about $800 an acre. The Clinton Lake project has inflated prices in many areas, Good said.
Average prices can be misleading, however. The cost of a piece of land will depend on what you want to do with it, how much it would want it and how much you can afford to pay.
Other real estate brokers, like Good, have watched the suburbs expand from the metropolitan areas of Kansas City and Howard's Douglas and surrounding counties.
AMONG THE REASONS given for the growing exodus to the country are high city taxes, heightened interest in leisure activities, investment potential and urban squeeze. Even trailer parks are running out of room.
Locally, the demand for rural property is greatest west of Lawrence and south, around Vinland. Suburban growth has raised the value of property in West Lawrence. Acreage in Vinland will be increased for its historical and visual appeal, good roads and proximity to the University of Kansas and Baker University.
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