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Wednesday, August 20, 1975
University Daily Kansan
City Commission
From page 1
cording to George Williams, public works director, the city will be concentrating its efforts there until most of the housing meets the requirements of the code.
City Manager Buford Watson
INSPECTION FOR the rest of the city is done on a complaint basis. This means that before the city inspects a house, a neighbor, a tenant or someone else will have to sign a complaint stating that the house is substandard in some way.
In addition to the housing code issue, the commission was also faced with charges of inefficient management in the sanitation department.
Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering, compiled a report which he mailed to the city commissioners and the mayor to criticize the city's incentive system, which allows sanitation workers to go home when they finish their routes. The workers report for work for four ten-hour days each week, and their staff, many only work five to seven hours.
McKinney also criticized the city's routing system for pickup and other management problems in the sanitation department.
MOST OF THE COMMISSIONERS are opposed to the incentive system and have been criticized for not implementing it.
--general the goals and objectives remained the same.
Norman Forer, assistant professor of social welfare, has been advising the new sanitation workers union. He and a committee of students are preparing a report that they said would counter McKinney's report.
Arnginger said she would like to see the city try eliminating the incentive system and going to once-a-week garbage pick up in returning the system to own a private building.
"WE SHOULD TRY TO be fair to the
WE SHould as well as to the citizens," she said.
Watson said he had been gathering information about contracting with a private company.
The city has asked that a 25 per cent increase in sanitation charges be included in the 1978 city budget. It has not asked for the city to have may have to later, according to Watson.
Before any decision is made on the best way to streamline the operations of the sanitation department, the commissioners and Watson will meet with McKinney and Forer and evaluate the results of both studies. A decision will be made in the fall.
Comprehensive plan . . .
From page 1
"A GOOD PLAN CAN last forever with
a cover-up -uditing and amending," McClain
said.
A large portion of the preliminary work on the plan entailed surveying existing facilities and conditions in the city. Jones, his staff and the city-county planning staff spent about a year and a half completing this phase of the study.
One of the major adjustments made in the new comprehensive plan is an effective way to review the plan annually and to amend it as necessary, he said. The plan should be formally reviewed every 5 years and informally reviewed each year.
An enormous amount of time has been required of Jones, the city-county planning staff and the city-county planning committee to approve 300-400 page proposed plan for Lawrence.
AFTER THE SURVEY, the city-county planning commission was asked to meet almost weekly to go over the various sections of the plan to determine whether they were solidly based on documented information and sure the sections were clearly written.
Jones and his staff explained the basic goals and objectives of the plan to the community in two public meetings in March.
The opinions and ideas of the citizens who attended these meetings affected some of the decisions.
The public will have the opportunity to respond to the proposed comprehensive plan again sometime in September or October, Davis said. The planning commission is required to have at least two public hearings on the plan, then they can amend it as they see fit, adopt it and send it to the state and federal governments for their approval.
LAWRENCE MAYOR BARKLEY Clark
would also admit being adopted within six months.
City Manager Buford Watson said he would be glad to see the plan adopted by the planning commission and by the city commission.
"We have held back approving several improvement projects to see how the comprehensive plan would treat them," he said.
"Often when people call us up wanting a rezoning of some part of the city, we tell them to wait until we see what zone the comprehensive plan puts their land in," Watson said, "especially if it is a borderline case.
"I don't think that the comprehensive plan will solve all the problems of the city," he said. "But I think it was time to bring the people in." He also corroborate what people are thinking today.
"A plan is a living document and it needs to reflect the ideas of different people within the community." Watson said.
CLARK SAID THE comprehensive plan
and the goals developed by the Goals for Lawrence Committee would be the two basic documents under which the city would plan and operate in the future.
In late July, the comprehensive plan was completed as far as separate components were considered. This led to the most difficult part of evolving a workable plan was in store for the planning commission and the consultant; showing clearly the interrelationship between them.
"It doesn't take a planning genius to recognize that when you extend a utility line or build a four-lane road straight out into the county or build a new school that there will be land development around these improvements." Davis said.
He said planning expertise was needed at this stage of the plant's development more than once.
"NOW WE HAVE TO blend the components together to form a strong rationale for the entire planning system to follow," Davis said.
Davis said the planning' commission's main function was to see that the plan was tightly written and included the rationale changes before it was presented to the public.
"It helps if the rationale for an object is added in the text," Davis said. "People can understand why a certain area of the environment should be located in a specific neighborhood if they are told the reasoning underlying the decision."
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