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Local Issues
Bond would revamp city schools
Rv Flicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
On November 6, the Lawrence School Board will ask voters to approve a $31.8 million bond that will be used to build a new high school, remodel Lawrence High School and expand two elementary schools.
More than $23 million would be used to build a new high school one mile west of 15th Street and Wakarua Drive. Seven million dollars would finance the remodeling of Lawrence High School, including renovation of the electrical, air conditioning and plumbing systems of the 36-year old school; $275,000 would be used to build more athletic fields near Holom Park for use by the schools and the community.
Six hundred thousand dollars and $150,000 would go to constructing additional classrooms for Wakara schools. And Sunset Hill Elementary School.
The additional operational costs for two high schools are an estimated $900,000, which will pay for utilities, insurance and support staff such as custodians, secretaries, librarians and administrators.
Supporters of the bond issue say
More than $23 million would be used to build a new high school one mile west of 15th Street and Wakarusa Drive. Seven million dollars would finance the remodeling of Lawrence High School, including renovation of the electrical, air conditioning and plumbing systems. $275,000 would be used to build more athletic fields near Holcom Park.
the new high school is needed because the elementary and junior high enrollments are growing. About 400 new students enrolled in Fall 1990 in Lawrence schools. The board anticipates that secondary-school enrollment will increase by 600 students in 1993 by 1,200 students by 1996.
high school was built, the students attending it would be those who lived north of 15th Street. Students living south of 15th Street would attend the old high school. Small hubs would be drawn around both schools, allowing students to attend the school that was behind walking distance. The board said they had committed itself to providing additional bus transportation as well.
The board decided that if the new
The board said using this boundary policy provided sociocconomic and racial balance in the two senior highs. Future boards would have to conduct extensive public hearings to change this policy.
Citizens for Education, an opponent of the bond issue, agrees there are space problems, but it suggests it would be more prudent to expand the
present high school and build a fourth junior high. Members of the group said the school board's solution to student population growth by building a new high school did not include long-range planning to handle growth at all levels: elementary, junior and senior high.
Opponents also point out that predicting the future needs of the community is difficult because of the uncertain events of the Middle East, the possibility of an economic recession and a political crisis, they say, is a short-term bandage to a bigger problem that Lawrence will face.
The school board said if the bond issue failed, the board would consider other options, including additional mobile units at $35,000 each, double shifts at the high school and larger class sizes. It also has stated that the board will ask the question of a new high school back to the voters at a future election.
If the bond issue passes, the new high school is scheduled to be completed in 1993 or 1994.
Proposed Roadways
South Lawrence Trafficway
The South Lawrence Trafficway is proposed to help alleviate traffic through Lawrence. It would incorporate existing portions of 31st Street, County Road 13 and Clinton Parkway.
Existing roadway
New right of way
Interchange
City seeks parkway approval
Ry Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
The city of Lawrence is asking taxpayers to pay for a $4 million bond for a road that would complete an essential loop of roadways around the city.
The Eastern Parkway is a proposed route of an undetermined length that will extend from K-10 near the East Hills Business Park to somewhere in the vicinity of U.S. 54, north, near the Kansas River bridge.
The road will be a two-lane highway constructed with a four-lane right of way. The purpose of the road is to help traffic flow directly from K-10 to the downtown business district and for residents living in
the central, northern and eastern parts of the city to have quick access to K-10.
City officials say traffic with a destination of the downtown business district, municipal airport and North Lawrence is filtering through residential neighborhoods. The traffic has been increasing on Barker Avenue, Haskell Avenue and Harper Street.
According to a study released by the city in September, the average daily traffic on 23rd Street east of Haskell doubled from 11,000 to 22,000 vehicles per day from 1982 to 2006. According to a study from 9,600 vehicles per day in 1982 to 10,000 in 1990. The Eastern Parkway will provide a direct funnel for the traffic to the businesses and remove it from the residential streets.
The cost of the Eastern Parkway has been estimated at $10.5 million. Voters are being asked to support $4 million for general obligation bonds. This will provide $1.3 million to the corridor and environmental study, right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation. The balance of the bond, $2.7 million, will be issued only when other sources such as federal and state funds are available.
If the bond passes, the additional taxes would cost an owner of a home valued at $75,000 an average year. The banks may pay off the life of the bond.
The parkway and the trafficway are separate voting issues, but they are joined together in an agreement between the county and the city to maintain equal balance of growth. In other words, they are approved by the voters.
Opponents of the parkway speculate the road corridor could have a detrimental effect on the environment of the area. Also, area neighborhoods are uneasy about the route that the parkway could take. However, all of this is unknown because a corridor study has not been completed. The study will take 12 to 15 months to complete.
If the parkway is approved by voters, it would be completed by 1997.
Debate flies on trafficway issue: Its expense overall effectiveness, environmental impact
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
Douglas County commissioners are asking voters to approve the construction of a roadway that officials say would ease traffic congestion in the area and would not harm the environment in the process.
But opponents contend that the road will hurt the environment and that it will not ease traffic. They say businesses must to support business development.
The proposed South Lawrence Trafficway is a 14.1-mile road that would loop around the city, connecting K-10 to Interstate 70.
Supporters say the road would be an answer to the increasing traffic problems in Lawrence.
"As of 1986, approximately 4,500 cars would pass at the intersection of 23rd and Iowa streets in one hour," County administrator. "It is projected to be more than 5,000 an hour by the year 2010 unless we build the trafficway. Our city needs this road to be reduced but will be reduced on the residential street."
Stage one includes construction of a two lane roadway and right-of-way land acquisition for the entire four-lane trafficway would also be bought in Stage 1. If financing is available, stage two would be obtained from Haskell to Louisiana would be advanced from Stage 3 to Stage 1.
McKensie said the cost of the trafficway's first two stages would be $41 million.
Stage 2 consists of a two-lane roadway from Yankee Tank Lake to Louisiana Street. At the end of this stage a two-lane roadway will be open along the entire Trafficway route.
Stage 3 consists of six separate construction packages that include building the second pair of traffic lines on segments of the trafficway.
The trafficway has been planned to have 11 access points for traffic with four elevated interchanges.
McKensie said the Kansas Department of Transportation estimated the cost of the entire project, a road with four lanes, at $60 million. In June, KDOT allocated $27 million to Douglas County for the道路.
Mike Amyx, Douglas County commissioner, said the road was an excellent value for taxpayers because 89 percent of the project would be financed by federal and the Kansas Turnpike Authority.
McKensie said taxes would not increase because Douglas County residents had been paying for the $4 million bond since 1985, when it was approved by the Douglas County Commission.
The trafficway was not constructed at that time because a Lawrence resident, Les Blevins Sr., sued the county for the right of the taxpayers to decide the issue. He said the Douglas County Commission did not have a carte-blanche authority to approve the trafficway.
The case, Blevins vs. Hiebert, ultimately was decided by the Kansas Supreme Court, which ruled that the county could keep the $4 million bond but that it would not be legal to have a county grant again without voter approval.
Blevins said the county was being shortsighted by stating the cost of only the first two stages.
Nancy Hiebert is a Douglas County commissioner who also was on the commission in 1985. The county agreed with Blevins to put the issue to the voters and abide by the outcome of the election.
Opponents say that the cost-estimates for the construction are too low and that taxpayers will end up paving more.
The county spent $390,000 for an environmental-impact study to determine the route of the road and the effort required the road would have
"Stage three will be to change the two-lane road into a four-lane highway," Blevins said. "How much more will stage three cost?"
Blevins has stated at both city and county commission meetings that he estimated the total cost of the trafficway to be in excess of $100 million instead of the projected $60 million, because other expenses, including road maintenance, had not been included in the estimate.
Supporters of the trafficway also say the road will not hurt the environment.
"I feel like they're not telling us the whole truth," Blevins said. "They're not telling taxpayers the full amount that they will be spending in the next 10 to 20 years because they know taxpayers wouldn't go for it. The main reason is not a road traffic but to make a road for business developments."
The 4-inch-thick environmental and engineering study concluded that construction of the roadway would not hurt the environment.
Project supporters say Baker Wetlands would benefit from the construction because the county has agreed to buy 15 additional acres to create an artificial wetlands for misplaced species. The water runoff from the road also would be encased so that it would not pollute the land.
Opponents discount the study and say the environment would be significantly altered by the additional traffic that the trafficway would bring.
Clark H. Coan, spokesperson for Save The Baker Wetlands, said the wetlands would not benefit from the roadway. He said the construction of the road would destroy 12 acres of wetlands. He also said the 15 acres were falling behind in valuation to accommodate the loss was not acceptable solution.
"You can't recreate wetlands." Coan said. "It's like cutting down old growth and planting seedlings in its place. It's not the same."
Joseph Collins, an environmentalist and author of seven books on Kansas wildlife, said the trafficway's effect on air, water and land could not be gauged adequately until the road was constructed.