University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1984
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Battle over Catholic Center may be nearing end
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
A year and a half of controversy surrounding the proposed expansion of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, may come closer to a settlement later this month.
Center officials and area residents have been fighting since April 1983, when the center announced plans to build a church, a chapel and a student center at the southeast corner of Crescent and Engel roads.
On Nov. 27, Douglas County District Judge James Paddock will hold a hearing on a motion from B. G. Barr, president of the Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association.
Barr, 1605 Crescent Road, filed a motion in September asking for summary judgment in a suit he filed earlier this year.
In summary judgment, the judge reviews the information in a case and rules on the case without a trial.
AFTER THE CITY Commission approved the center's site plan for the expansion in February. Barr filed a suit against the city claiming the site plan violated city ordinances. He is asking for summary judgment on this action. The city also is asking for summary judgment.
By August 1833, the Kansas City Archdiocese, of which Lawrence Roman Catholic churches are a part, had purchased four adjacent lots west of the center. In September the center moved four houses of the lots.
The fight between the center and its neighbors began when the center announced its plans for expansion on the 2.26-acre lot. The Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association was
formed then in opposition to the project.
THE CENTER ORIGINALLY wanted to build a 424-seat church with 106 parking spaces, a chapel to accommodate 100 and a student educational center for about 150. These were to be finished in 1985.
asked that the size of the development be reduced, but center officials maintained that they needed the space. Mass for the Catholic Center is now said at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Residents thought that the development would cause traffic problems and that it was too big for a residential area.
In November 1983, the City Commission asked center officials and neighborhood representatives to work out a compromise. The two sides failed to find a solution before the City Commission in February. However, some revisions of the original plan were made.
Under the revisions, the church would have 32 seats and 98 parking spaces. The chapel was dropped from the plans.
BARR FILED HIS motion in
The neighborhood association
September saying that the site plan violated city ordinances because there were not enough parking spaces. City ordinances require one space for every four seats in a building.
The allotted 98 spaces met the requirement for the church seating, but Barr claimed the seating for the student center should have been included.
This is one of three main points Barr is arguing, said John Nitcher, a lawyer representing Barr and the association. Nitcher said yesterday that if Paddock ruled in favor of Barr, the site plan would be invalid and the center would have to file a revised plan.
ON THE RECORD
A MUPED VALUED at $400 was stolen from a student between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 11 a.m. Wednesday in the 1500 block of West 24th Street, Lawrence police said.
A BICYCLE VALUED at $85 was stolen from a student between 4 and 6 p.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of Missouri Street, police said. A thief or thieves used wire cutters to cut the bike lock.
A STUDENT WAS TREATED and released from Watkins Hospital after he received a dislocated shoulder at about 2 a.m. Saturday when he was assaulted by four or five men in the 300 block of East 19th Street, police said.
Includes air fare, hotel accommodations, most meals and ground transportation. Depart January 2, 1985 and return in time for the beginning of KU spring semester. Call Jane Hopkins at Maupintour for full details.
IT'S A FACT:
The Kansas Natural Resource Council gave Rep. Charlton a 100% rating on energy and environmental issues
Representative Betty Jo Charlton is a member of the House Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. She sponsored legislation:
- to give the Kansas Corporation Commission more authority over utility rate increases and the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant
- to clean up hazardous waste sites and prohibit burial of toxic wastes in our state.
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