Wednesdav. November 12. 1974
University Daily Kansan
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City Commission decides on location for city garage
By JILL DOLES
City Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission finally took the plunge last night and approved a site for the proposed city garage after eight months of controversy and indecision.
The commission voted four to one to place the garage at 2nd and Indiana streets, the first choice of a study done by city staff in April and the second choice of the Oblinger-Smith Corp. consultants in planning, design and development.
Commissioner Barkley Clark dissented, favoring the site at 23rd and Haskell streets that also was favored by most of the 90 votes against last night's commission meeting.
"We need a city garage and this is the only site we can get the number of votes we need," Commissioner Nancy Hambleton said in justification of her position.
Hambleton said she was satisfied with the
decision, and she didn't think the garage would have a great impact on the neighborhood if city vehicles used Maine Street as the access road to the garage.
Mayor Jack Rose limited public discussion on the garage site selection to 10 minutes and against each proposed site. This allowed the audience 10 minutes for questions.
"The commission has a real need to discuss it among themselves and come to a conclusion."
He said the public had had ample op-ion regarding the website noted that there had been two lengthy public meetings, site visitations, planning commission meetings, and two hearings concerning the commission.
The assistant city manager and the planning staff conducted a survey of five proposed sites last April and recommended site at 2nd and Indiana streets be chosen.
The city commission approved the hiring of a consultant at a cost of $6,000 in August and signed contracts with Oblinger-Smith in September.
"We haven't looked at any sites worse than he said, he said. 'I don't think we could find one.'
Ken Kallenbach of Olbinger-Smith presented the corporation's recommen-
He said the firm strongly recommended he install a present garage at 5th and Mississippi streets.
Obilinger-Smith considered 13 sites in their original study. Four were eliminated after preliminary investigation. Later, five more were extended to the commission for consideration.
Initial and long-term economic costs, neighborhood impact, operational impact, site usability and timing were the criteria for the study.
Heverdahl describes raft voyage
Rv.JOHN MORRIS
Reporter
The Ancient Egyptians could have crossed the Atlantic Ocean and settled in Central America, America, Heyer Heverdahl, author of *The Ra Expeditions*, said here last night.
He spoke to an over-capacity crowd of 300 in Dyce Auditorium.
Herdahl, an explorer, archaeologist and ethnologist has left evidence to cross the Atlantic Ocean in rafts.
The first expedition in Ra I was abandoned after 56 days at sea because the raft was damaged and was in shark-infested water, Heyerdahl said.
After Heerhald explained his theory of
infinite oscillations, he presented a
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Ra II, the second raft, successfully transported Heyerdahl and his crew from Morocco, Africa, to Barbados, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, the subject of his presentation last night.
Ra I failed, Heyerdahl explained, because
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Hyeraldi's raft was built by Indians of Peru near Titicaca because they were still familiar with the ancient art of constructing rafts at each end, sails and a cabin. The raft left Africa with six tons of cargo, a monkey, various birds and about six crew members, according to the film. Hyeraldi said a raft was necessary to navigate ocean waves.
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it had been built by a group that was familiar with only one-bow rafts. This group of craftsmans lives near Lake Chad in Africa.
The similarity between the reed boats
Heyerdahl
used today on Lake Titicaca in Peru and on Lake Chad in Africa and those used many centuries ago in ancient Egypt is one factor that led to Heloderry's theory, he said.
The reeds were papyrus, and although they will rot and sink in stagnant water, he said, they stay fresh and buoyant in open sea water.
The reed arrived in Central America with a damaged wooden rudder, but the crew was able to salvage it, according to the film. The craft had traveled more than 3,000 miles in 57 days.
Ra II was designed according to ancient Egyptian diet of nuts, dates, raisins, hardwood
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Heyerdahl has now crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in rafts.
“It's not likely that I'll take another sea voyage,” he said.
His first rift was made from balsa logs, and the trip was from Peru to a small island east of Tahiti. The venture was documented in his first book, "Kon-Tikl."
Carlyle S. Smith, professor of anthropology, was one of three anthropologists who accompanied Heyerdahl to Easter Island. Heyerdahl's book, "Akuaku," describes this expedition. Two collections of archaeological data also were collected.
Smith said he didn't accept or reject Meyer's theories. He said he always let James work on it.
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Allan Hanson, associate professor of anthropology, said he disagreed with Heyerdahl's theories. He said the theories were based on the idea that cultures were characteristic of the people who colonized them.
This approach was popular in the 1920s, Hanson said, but modern anthropologists try to see how a particular civilization could have developed from within another.
He said Heyerdahl was a good writer, speaker and story-teller.
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The commission quickly rejected the site at 12th and Haskell streets because of the uncertainty of the East Lawrence loop project and the 2nd and Minnesota streets and the unknown availability of the land and lack of interest from commissioners.
The commission also rejected the 19th and Haskell streets site after much opposition from the audience. There was no demand from the audience favoring the site.
Roha Wales, 1826 Haskell St., presented petitions with 822签字. She said people in the neighborhood opposed the site of the church and to the neighborhood to the neighborhood and to the city.
Lee Miller, 1111 E. 1900 SL., also made an annual to the commission opening the site
appeal to the commission opposing the site.
"We feel that the impact on the neighborhood is the most important thing for you to consider," he said.
A resident of the Pine Tree Cooperative, 149 Pinecone Dr., said 100 of the 180 residents had signed the petitions. He said many of the residents had small children and were concerned for their children's safety.
Several other residents of the neigh-
borhood expressed concern for the trees at the
Olbinger-Smith favored the site because the land was owned by the city, it had the best accessibility of the five sites and was second lowest in cost.
Many of the residents favored the site at 23rd and Haskell streets because they said it was a neighborhood, Representatives of the 19th and Haskell residents, Old West Lawrence Association, and the Pinneyneigh Neighborhood, favored the 23rd and Haskell streets site.
The site was also preferred because it was adjacent to the county maintenance garages, making it feasible for future consolidation of city and county operations.
"The best site in the entire city with the
possible exception of 19th and Haskell in terms of accessibility is 23rd and Haskell." Clark said. "It is the only one of all of the areas that has no negative neighborhood impact."
Clark's statement for acceptance of the site died for lack of a second.
The site unsuitable for development because of drainage and topographical problems of the site. George Williams, director of public works, expressed concern over the slopes and possible problems of moving the large boulders up the inclines to the access roads.
Mary Francis Ruhl, owner of the majority of the property at the 23rd and Haskell
The 2nd and Indian streets site was chosen over objections by residents that the increased traffic would harm the neighborhood. The presence of a garage would devalue their land.
Hambleton said she didn't think the
impact would be as great as the residents feared. The garage would be located behind the water plant and would be out of view. The property would also be used to make Maine Street for access to 8th Street.
The site at 2nd and Indiana streets ranked third in overall economic costs and also conformed to present heavy industrial zoning.
Rose said the city was proposing something that any privy citizen had a less desire for.
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Commissioner Fred Pence moved for the adoption of the 2nd and Indiana streets site. Clark moved for an amendment making the use of Maine Street a matter of policy.
Total cost of the garage at the 2nd and Indiana streets site will be $131,500, not including about $100,000 more for major structures. The amount needed because of the hospital expansion.
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