University Daily Kansan
Friday, September 12.1975
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Housing units planned to aid needy elderly
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Staff Writer
Lawrence needs a new housing project for the elderly, regardless of whether it's built by a public or private developer, Doris Kearse, an architecture professor at Lawrence Housing Authority, said yesterday.
She said the project was needed because of the waiting list for Babcock Place, a project for the elderly that the housing authority manages. Babcock Place is Lawrence's only subsidized housing project for the elderly.
Kaiser met with Kyle Andreg, community development director, yesterday to discuss the housing authority's proposal for the project and the requirement of the city comprehensive plan, which it must meet. Kaiser said the comprehensive plan would require a massive and unmissable sites for a project of this type and how many units the project could contain.
THE PROPOSALS are being submitted in response to a notice issued July 28 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to invite proposals for subsidized housing projects under Section 8 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, was issued for eastern Kansas by the Topesa Foundation to facilitate Banking Administration, a division of HUD.
Three private developers are also planning to submit proposals for projects for the city.
She said HUD would authorize the construction of 700 units in eastern Kansas and would probably authorize no more than 100 units and one protect for Lawrence.
The housing authority's proposal would include plans for 100 units, according to KC.
SHE SAID THE project could be operated more efficiently by the housing authority than by a private developer because the estate owner is managing two subsidized housing projects.
The housing authority manages Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts St., and Edgewood Homes, a project for low-income families, at 1600 Haskell Ave.
Management of the new project would be different from management of Edgewood and Babcock because different laws govern the projects. Edgewood and Babcock are public housing projects, which means they were built by the federal government but
receive no regular operational subsidy
Kaiser said.
She said the new Section 8 project would be built with private money but would receive a regular operation subsidy from FUD.
Kaiser said she would present the proposal to the Lawrence City Commission at its meeting Tuesday night. She said the department was working with directors who reviewed it Wednesday night.
Kaiser said she hoped HUD would decide on the four local proposals by the end of the
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the commission's vote was void. If the necessary signatures were obtained, then the PUD change could occur only with a favorable 4 to 1 city commission vote.
Since the vote was 3 to 2, Counts said, it was already invalid.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said that he wont'award the city had made a mistake in its calculations, and that the mayor should have made the matter Tuesday at its regular meeting.
Wildgen said there was speculation that some names might be withdrawn from the petition, bringing it below the 20 per cent threshold. The solution had been reached at the meeting.
Originally the developer, Lloyd Burzi of Mark I Inc, had requested the 27 apartment units be moved immediately. The compromise delayed the move until after the access road from the units to 23rd Street is built in 1979.
Counts said that no one was planning to withdraw his vote. She thought that the compromise was invalid since the petition had the needed signatures before the meeting, and that the petitioners shouldn't have to go before the commission again.
"The question of a better plan doesn't enter into the situation," she said. "It's a question of law. The PUD can't now legally be changed."
Commissioner Carl Mibbeck said that if the matter was brought before the commission again, he and Commissioner Benins voted against the change against the change-in-favor of the petition. Mibbeck Bimbs voted against the change at the last commission meeting.
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