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Haskell Loop report called biased
By KENNA GIFFIN
Staff Writer
A statement on the environmental impact of the proposed Haskell Loop project, due for release Friday, already is being attacked as blessed in favor of the loop.
Kershenbaum said that it was a widely held opinion that the report was supposed to be too lengthy. "It would out that way, Oblinger Smith, Wichita, contracted by the city as the project's landscape architectural firm, is making the environmental impact statement."
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
said the firm wasn't going to bias a report
"They have a world wide reputation. They couldn't pay them enough to run their business."
Richard Kersenbaum, treasurer for the East Lawrence Citizens for Housing Preservation, said yesterday that the statement would be favorable to the project. Haskell Loop is to run through east Lawrence, between 11th and 23rd streets, connecting K-10 and downtown Lawrence at Massachusetts Street.
Kerschenbaum said Oblinger Smith had the contract for the initial design work on the loop and might slant the report in favor of loops in hopes of gaining other loop contracts.
Frank Smith, co-owner of the firm, said I didn't think there was anything in the report. "I just wanted to look at it."
Wilden said that the firm had a preliminary design contract but that it wouldn't receive any other contracts under its existing consulting firm, not an engineering firm.
Wilden said the environment impact statement wouldn't include any opinion in favor of or opposed to the loop. The statement will be used by federal authorities to determine whether to build the loop. If the two federal agencies in
Open meeting to be Friday
University administrators have scheduled an open meeting with faculty, staff and students for 1 p.m. Friday at the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Chancellor Archie Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, will appear at the meeting to answer questions. The meeting will last one hour.
Open meetings were begun last year. There were two meetings each semester, and attendance ranged from 40 to 150 people at the sessions, with the second set Dec. 3 as the date for the second open meeting this semester.
HASKELL HOMECOMING INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW
October 2
8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
October 3
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Indian dancing Indian Fry Broad and Tacos
Haskell Indian Junior College
Hiawatha Hall
Free Admission Public is Welcome
Kersenbaum said the city should use HUD community development funds to rehabilitate neighborhoods, not to build the loop. He said the city tore down four houses in the 800 block of Pennsylvania Street to allow for environmental
charge of the money, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Highway Administration, found that the loop wasn't worth building. He said he'd be prepared to expend federal money on the project, he said.
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impact statement, and found out later that that action was illegal. The city did help make sure the police were doing their job.
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The city did nothing illegal in demolishing the houses, according to Wilden. Money for that project was provided from HUD's Neighborhood Development Program, which preceded the Community Development Program.
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