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Thursday, September 4, 1975
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PUD not easy zoning plan
Staff Writer
By JAN KENNETH LOUDEN
PITD isn't easy
Although, a University of Kansas student thinks pud refers to an easy course, to Lawrence city planners PUD is a complicated zoning ordinance on which they have been working for two and one-half years.
A PUD is designed:
According to James Hewitt, senior planner, PUD, which stands for planned unit development, is a technique of land development that is designed to give developers more flexibility in exchange for a common open space that anyone in the
-io encourage innovation in development.
-To provide for the growing demand for all types of housing and for the convenient location of their facilities.
To provide greater opportunities for housing, recreational facilities and business.
—To encourage more efficient use of land and public and private services.
To insure preservation of land and property values.
—To speed land development.
Hewitt said that under PU, a developer takes a minimum plot of 20 acres of land and presents his plans to the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission. His development, which divides the plat into lots, and an application for zoning change.
Copies of the plan are sent to the director of public works and to utility companies to be reviewed.
After the planning commission passes the plans, they are sent to the Lawrence city
Dutch sociologist to visit KU, lecture
Barbolomew Landher, a noted Dutch sociologist and authority on international law, will lecture on "innovation and Differences" in World" at 4 p.m. today in Blake Hall
Landherer was a visiting professor at the University of Kauaas during the fall semester of 1986 and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and a former director of the Peace Palace Library in the Hague. Landherer is also the staff of the United States Library of Congress.
Landbeer is visiting KU at the invitation of the department of sociology and will remain in Lawrence through tomorrow to meet with students and faculty. He is visiting the United States to attend a conference in St. Louis on international law
commission. If the city commission approves them, a final plan goes to the city planning staff. The city planning staff approves the city planning commission for final approval.
However, Hewitt said, if the planning commission rejects the final plan, the developer must start at the beginning and create new set of plans to the planning commission.
The PUD ordinance will speed construction in the long run, he said. It allows for building a home on residential and commercial zoning. This is faster than making the city approve separate lots for residential homes and businesses. It also lets to include commercial businesses, he said.
Hewitt said Lawrence was the first city in Kansas to use PUD. The first city zoning ordinance was adopted in 1968. It was changed in 1969 and is being revised again to conform with some new additions to the state PUD statute.
Most of the work on the PUD ordinance has been made in the past year, he said. He hoped the ordinance would meet with the commission's approval in about a month.
The commission must accept and give two readings to the PUD ordinance, which must be published in the newspaper of record before it is legal.
Although all of those involved in approving the PUD ordinance said they thought that it would benefit the city, some people still have reservations.
Commissioner Marielle Argersinger said she thought the city needed to beware of using PUD on marginal land, which is land in the south of the island. For example, she said, many of the lots at Four Seasons, a PUD in the south end of the island, are occupied by PUD owners who have to charge all property owners the cost of
However, she said, two other PUDs, Mendowbraw and Milton, are inimply involved.
development and upkeep of sidewalks,
sewers and streets in Four Seasons.
"When a PUD is good it’s excellent," she said. "The real problem is that if lots don’t sell, the city is stuck with them. When you leave it in planning you suffer for 20 or 30 years."
One problem that hasn't been resolved is architectural control. The city commission decided Tuesday to omit any mention of architectural control from the ordinance.
Mike Davis, chairman of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, said that in general the PUD ordinance was an extremely beneficial change.
It's still a difficult task to walk, he said. The ordinance must not be so strati that the developers can't utilize it, yet the city must control to make sure that it isn't misused.
Betty Lichtward, a member of the Douglas County Environmental Improvement Council, said architectural control of PUDs was necessary.
She said that without architectural control the developer could sell the lots separately to builders who might build anything.
The controls are necessary to prevent hedgepodge constructions that make the neighborhoods deteriorate and cause property values to dren.
"PUD is supposed to promote uniform development," she said. "There isn't any use in having PUD if it can be bypassed." Hewitt said architectural control was impossible because everyone's tastes were different.
However, he said, the city planners would examine PUIDs in cities that include archaic buildings.
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