UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 18, 1997
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New housing target students
Building permit applications rose in the last year
Dave Morantz / KANSAN
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Highpoint, one of several new apartment complexes, sits above the intersection of Iowa and Sixth streets. While many Highpoint units are occupied, crews still are constructing some buildings.
By Ann Premer
Kansan staff writer
New apartment complexes have sprouted throughout Lawrence during the past year, giving KU students a wide choice of living arrangements.
Building permits for apartment units in Lawrence skyrocketed in 1996 — the city issued building permits for 954 multi-unit dwellings, said Jim Sherman, Lawrence building inspector. Multi-unit dwellings include apartments, duplexes, quadruplexes and townhomes.
He said the number of multi-unit dwellings in 1996 was unusually high, nearly five times that of the previous year.
"There were not even 200 in 1995," Sherman said.
The boom in new housing serves the large number of KU students living off campus. Although figures for the number of students living off campus this year are not yet available, Harlan Roedel, copy editor for University Relations, said about 20,000 students, or 80 percent of the campus population, lived off campus last year.
Several new apartment complexes are serving KU students as well as Lawrence residents.
Aberdeen Apartments and Townhomes, Highpoint Apartments, Pinnacle Woods Apartments and Tuck-
away will offer a combined total of 842 new apartments by November. All the complexes have plans to be included on KU bus routes.
"We try to target students as well as others. About 50 percent of our residents are students at this time," said Jeanie Morrison, property manager of Swan Management, about the Aberdeen apartment complex.
Morrison said that 65 units of the complex's 169 units were finished and that completion of the others was expected by November.
Construction of the Tuckaway apartment complex was completed at the end of July.
"We are completely finished and
completely full," said Dru Fritzel, co manager of Tuckaway.
Fritzel said the computer room and the exercise equipment and exercise areas helped to attract students.
"We have a good amount of students here."she said.
Aberdeen offers one and two bedroom apartments and the other complexes offer one, two and three bedrooms. Rental prices range from $450 to $970 depending on the complex and the number of bedrooms.
"We are making it kind of a luxury residence," said Sheryl Krzanowsky, district manager of First Management of Highpoint. "What we have
She said all the 169 units would be finished in 30 to 45 days.
available now is 100 percent occupied."
With the new apartment complexes, managers of older complexes said they would start making improvements and adding amenities to be competitive.
However, Paul Gonzalez, leasing agent and assistant manager of Southpointe Apartments, said the new apartment complexes had not affected business yet because they had not been completed.
"It really hasn't affected us yet, but it very well could for the next leasing season," he said.
Parking costs rise; more spaces added
By Tim Harrington Kansan staff writer
Purchasing a parking pass this semester will require more money and time than expected.
The price of a yellow-zone parking pass has increased $22 to $75. Last year's passes cost $53.
The decision to raise permit prices was not made until late last semester, which caused the parking department to miss the April deadline to be included in the option's card.
This snaufa has meant long lines at the parking department this week as students scramble to purchase permits.
"I expect about a 200-person line all day, every day," sad Lori Pearson, parking department office manager.
The parking department has planned for the anticipated rush. At their headquarters in the parking garage at the corner of Irving Hill Road and Naismith Drive, there will be three cashiers inside the building and four outside.
Pearson said students needed bring their KUIDs, license plate numbers and last year's parking permit if they had one. Students will complete a parking permit card while waiting in line.
The department will sell permits from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Friday. To give students an opportunity to purchase per-
Lori Pearson
Parking dept. office manager
nits, the department will not ticket in yellow zones and residence hall lots until Monday, Aug. 25. The department will issue tickets in blue and red zones during that time.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said students should come in early in the week to avoid the largest of the crowds, made up of people who may be upset about long lines and increased prices.
Hultine said recent expenditures, including painting new lines and new lot for Jayhawker Towers are to blame for higher prices.
Those projects have added 193 spaces to lots on Daisy Hill. The Jayhawker Towers garage should be open sometime this week, Hultine said.
Students are not alone in footing the parking department's bills. The department raised the costs of all parking passes.
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