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Wednesday, September 18, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Commission considers installation of 'sneaky meters'
By MIKE MEESKE CITY REPORTER
City Reporter
By MIKE MEESKE
A new type of parking meter, called a "sneaky meter" by Mayor Jack Rose, was studied by the Lawrence City Commission yesterday.
The new parking meter is a possible
parking lot with existing parking meters in
the downtown area.
Genie Siemens, distributor for the manufacturer, owns parking meters, equipment and one to the issuer.
A one hour parking meter, Siemens said, would show the time purchased for three minutes. Then the time indicator either is covered by a shield or drops out of view.
Siemens said the parking meter was significant because each person who occupied a vacated space must deposit a coin, and pennies wouldn't be accepted by the
He said this would eliminate much of the gambling that occurred when a customer went into a store on time that had been left on the meter.
meters.
Studies have indicated, he said, that the new meter decreases the number of parking tickets and increases shopping time. Users are usually unable because each user must insert a coin.
The University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center not only offer
Buford Watson, city manager, said the meters were being studied because inflation and free lots had decreased parking revenue. The parking meter fund, he said, paid for a large portion of free parking and its maintenance.
and fines proposals were deferred until nex week for further study.
The commission also debated the
In other action, the commission passed on first reading a motion to repeal the provisions of a factory-built housing ordinance.
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The commission moved not to take tax funds to pay for free parking, so the meter
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possibility of increasing present parking fines instead of using meters to increase revenue. One of the plans suggested was to double the current fines.
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Larry Platt, representative of GFC Properties Incorporated, said that any factory-built housing that he would develop in Lawrence would meet the uniform building code. The commission agreed last week that if the housing did meet the code, the factory-built housing ordinance wouldn't apply.
The commission also adopted changes in a new sign ordinance. A permit fee will be doubled as a penalty for sign owners who haven't paid the fee.
Moving-message signs and time and temperature signs were excluded from the moving-sign ordinance.
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