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City landfill might serve two counties
By JIM McLEAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Douglas County commissioners made tentative plans Thursday to delay action on a proposed county landfill and to investigate the use of using the Lawrence city landfill first.
The county is required by state law to have a landfill by July 1, 1976.
A proposal for Douglas and Jefferson counties to operate a joint landfill at the Hamm Quarry north of Lawrence was viewed by county commissioners as a poor economic decision if the city of Lawrence chose not to participate.
Buford Watson, city manager, said he was almost certain that the city commission would agree to a proposal to accept the refuse of both counties.
Watson said that Lawrence wanted to continue to operate its own landfill until it was full so that the land could be made suitable for other uses, such as a public park.
City officials said they believed that the
crime landfill would meet State
regulations.
A disadvantage of the city landfill is its distance of 16 to 18 miles from Baldwin, Arthur Heck, county commission chairman, said. However, the city site presents no challenge to the Hamm Quarry location and several other sites that are available, Heck said.
The county has spent several thousand dollars on its search for an acceptable site, Heek said, but most sites suffer from flooding or ground water problems.
Watson said the cost to the counties for a hammer site was $12,500, the estimated cost of $3 a ton for the Hamm Quarry site. The estimated cost for a ton of retail last year at the Lawrence site was $146,000.
Heck said that if Jefferson County commissioners would consider a proposal to use the city's landfill, Douglas County commissioners would put one together.
The possibility of using the Hamm Quarry wasn't dismissed by the county commissioners. State guidelines require landfill to provide for 10 years of landfill needs.
Skeet Smith of the N. R. Hamm Construction Co. said he would be willing to discuss plans for using the quarry at a later date, but couldn't guarantee a commitment
City officials estimated that the existing landfill would last about five years if it accepted refuse from Douglas and Jeferson's site. The new site is estimated to last for twenty years.
Heck said a proposal to use the city's landfill, would be put together conditional on a lot of environmental concerns.
People's lobby called powerful
Common Cause, a citizen's lobby dedicated to making government more responsive to the needs of the public, has become the most influential lobby in Washington, Richard Colyer, area coordinator for Common Cause, said recently.
The main purposes of Common Cause are to restore the confidence of citizens in their political institutions, make the government accountable for its actions, and the principle of self-government, be said.
Colyer said the group attempted to eliminate corruption in political and governmental spheres and to reduce the influence of special interests or donors who give large amounts of money to a politician's campaign.
"Common Cause is the most powerful and persuasive lobby in Washington today," he said. "In the last 18 months to two years it has had more direct influence on major social legislature for the good of the people than any other group."
Colyer said the group already had about 250 members in the Lawrence area.
"What we are doing on campus is starting a separate campus drive," he said. "The campus community is more of a closed community than the normal Lawrence community."
Board OKs 11th & Miss. plan
By JANET MAJURE Kansan Staff Reporter
A zoning variance passed Thursday by the Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals and Mississippi to present their proposed site plan to the city commission.
George L. Catt, attorney for property owners H. W. and Ferne L. McBride, made a request to permit the owners to build a parking lot within 15 feet of Mississippi. The zoning ordinance requires a 25-foot front yard.
The board's decision must be passed by the board, before the zoning variance can take effect.
The McBride's own the Stadium Apartments and the property on Mississippi street opposite the stadium. Catt said the owners planned to remove two houses and
The extra 10 feet would allow the property owners to provide the needed number of parking spaces, he said. A screening fence would be built around the parking lot.
Catt said he agreed that a need existed for an ordinance limiting the proximity of buildings to the street. He didn't think, however, that the proposal would infringe on any adjacent property owners because of the property affected faced the stadium.
two fourplexes from that property to build
24 unit apartments.
The board agreed that the proposed apartments would improve the appearance of the corner and that the unique location of the property qualified the owner for this variation.
Georgia Bell, 1115 Indiana, was the only caller to voice any opposition to the law.
park in the McBride's parking facilities. She said the Santees, former property owners of the Stadium Apartments, had given her that privilege.
Bell's house is inaccessible by car from Indiana because of the sharp drop from the street. Bell said the McElhires wouldn't allow their property to park in her back yard.
Tom Groene, board chairman, said Bell's problem didn't involve the property facing Mississippi. He suggested that she bring up the problem at the city commission meeting when it considered approval of the entire site plan for the proposed apartments.
In other action, the board granted a 90-day extension to Jerry Larue that would allow him to build a fence around a trash receptacle. A variance was given to Larue in October, but he hasn't started construction.
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Prof free on bail after his car allegedly hits ticket-writing cop
A University of Kansas associate professor is free on $3,000 bond after an incident Wednesday morning in which a Security and Parking Department patrolman was allegedly struck by the professor's car.
Steven Lewis, associate professor of social welfare, was charged with aggravated assault in a warrant issued by the Douglas County attorney's office.
Mike Thomas, director of security and parking, said Thursday that Patrolman William Morrill had been writing a ticket on Tuesday morning when Lewis had emerged from the
Morrill was taken to Watkins Hospital with leg injuries, and was released Wednesday. Thomas said it would be hard for them to find other injuries were until a few days had passed.
Information about the incident was delayed while witnesses' testimony and other reports were prepared for possible court action, Thomas said.
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