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University Daily Kansan, January 16, 1981
Wood Creek plan alarms tenants
By LINDA ROSEWICZ
Staff Reporter
If the owner of Wood Creek Apartments proceed with plans to convert the complex to condominiums, most student residents won't be able to afford to stay. a KU student resident said yesterday.
The student, who asked to remain anonymous, said students who lived in the complex did not have the capital to invest in a condominium.
"My husband and I live here because the rent is so cheap," the woman said. "We have to worry about tuition and book costs—we don't have the money to buy into a condominium. We would have to move."
THE COST OF renting at the complex, 255 N. Michigan Street, is $310 a month for two-bedroom townhouses and $490 a month for three-bedroom townhouses.
An associate manager of the complex said residents should not panic about being "thrown out into the streets" if conversion to condominiums was made.
made.
"We haven't finalized our decision to
convert the apartments yet," coumager David Davenport said. "We don't know if we are even going to do it."
He said the conversion was being considered in order to maximize profit on the 128-apartment complex, but he noted that changes if the conversion was made.
WOOD CREEK APARTMENTS are used by Modern Management, Inc., Developers of Wood Creek.
"We're not trying to get back at the students or anything," Davenport said. "This conversion is not an excuse to evict any of our tenants."
An attorney for owners of the apartment complex appended Jan. 7 to Lawrence city commissioners to allow the defense of the complex into condominiums.
A MAJORITY of the five-member commission decided to allow the change, over the objections of two commissioners, Don Binsn and Marci
Blins said he rejected the request for replatting and rezoning the property for condominiums because the rent was
lower at the complex than at comparable housing in Lawrence.
"Many low-income people live in Wood Creek," Bins said. "Students and all residents would be forced to move out instead of purchasing condominiums. There is just not enough low-income housing left in this city."
Francisco said zoning approval was given with several variances to the city's regulations for condominiums, and he said she thought was bad precedent.
"WHY SHOULD we go out of our way to help them do that?" she said of the owners' plan.
Lendley Black, a KU doctor theater student, who lives in the complex with his wife and two children, said he would not have his family if the conversion was made.
"Even if I had the money to do it, I don't really think I would buy our apartment." he said.
Black said that the rent he had paid to live in a two-bedroom townhouse for the past four years was low enough to keep him satisfied.
"I DON'T think I would want to, or be able to spend the money to buy the place, though," he said.
More than 200 people join in a march to commemorate the 52nd birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The march, sponsored by the GSP Caucus and Blacks in Communications, was from the Kansas Union to Daisy Hill. The groups march in hopes of having a national holiday for the late civil rights leader.
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