University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1982
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Commission to study zoning request further
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission decided last night that it needed more time to study what some commissioners called a massive rezoning request for East Lawrence
Planning Commissioner Kurt von Achen said the request to rezone the lot to a single-family rating was the largest he could remember.
The request involves 500 to 600 lots in East Lawrence that lie generally south of Ninth Street, east of Rhode Island Street, north of 18th Street and west of the Santa Fe railroad tracks.
THE LOTS now have multiple-family, industrial and commercial ratings.
He said that because the request was large and complicated, the commissioners and the city-county department needed more time to study it.
The commission decided to recess its meeting until Nov. 8.
About 50 people attended last night's meeting at City Hall. The 20 people who spoke appeared divided over the proposed zoning change.
Mark Kaplan, president of the East Lawrence Improvement Association, said that the request was designed for a policy of permitting single-family residences in the East Lawrence area.
Kaplan said that although rental housing was important in East
Lawrence, the zoning change would be an advantage to people who owned houses and had families.
THE ZONING CHANGE, if implemented, would mean safer streets and a quieter neighborhood, Kaplan said.
Lynn Beetts, 1333 New Hampshire St., said multiple-family housing, which often was allowed under present zoning, caused problems.
Multiple-family dwellings, such as duplexes, lead to more noise and traffic than single-family residences, she said.
Many of those opposed to the change were real estate developers or agents.
Dick Edmondson, Lawrence real estate agent, said that changing the zoning to a single-family rating would make it more difficult to obtain in some cases.
Edmondson said he owned about 30 properties in East Lawrence.
30 properties in East Lawrence. Chet Fitch, 1416 Pennsylvania St., said that East Lawrence needed improvement and that a single-family rating might prevent such improvement.
If the planning commission decides Nov. 8 to recommend approval of the zoning change, the Lawrence City Commission would consider the recommendation at its Nov. 16 meeting.
The planning commission also decided to recommend a zoning change for 1.6 acres on Pennsylvania Street. The recommended change is from a multiple-family rating to a single-family rating.
KU on Wheels missing at least $50,000
By DON KNOX and CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporters
An investigation into the KU on Wheels bus system has confirmed that at least 80,000 in student money is now outstretched for a lawsuit against the case said yesterday.
Harry Warren, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said police investigators did not know exactly how much money was missing from the sale of KU on Wheels bus passes. He did say, "We had no more than $200,000 was involved."
was arrested Sept. 15 on five charges of felony theft involving $29,425. McMurry had overseen bus system funds since 1974.
STEVE MCMURRY, former student senator in charge of the bus system.
WARREN HAS said that he is still considering whether to file more charges in the case, McMurry was originally scheduled to face a man with a criminal record. Warren said yesterday that he had requested that the hearing be continued.
McMurry's preliminary hearing is now scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Nov. 1 in the Cleveland Courthouse.
An investigation into accounts that McMurray may have held at University State Bank is also continuing, Warren said. He said that the time it took to
transcribe the bank's records was the only problem with that part of the investigation.
KU administrators were tipped to the possible embezzlement when a check for a bus pass bounced in a University State Bank account that Warren said apparently belonged to McMurry. David Adkins, student body president, removed McMurry immediately after his arrest.
JIM DENNEY, director of the KU police department, said yesterday that investigations by his detectives also were continuing.
Denny said the police investigation had been slowed merely because of a
shortness of time, not from uncooperative sources.
An internal audit being conducted into Senate bus system records also has not yet been completed, said Joyce Jordan, KU internal auditor.
JORDAN DENIED reports that missing Senate records had caused a delay in the University audit. She said the records were audited at pre-1980 Senate transportation records.
In a related matter, the Senate Transportation Board will meet Tuesday to discuss selection of a new coordinator. The board made a preliminary recommendation ago to hire either a graduate or undergraduate student to replace McMurry.
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