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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 17, 1991
Barbara Huppee, director of the Lawrence Housing Authority, talks with commissioners in front of one of the 319 low-income housing units in the city
City leaders tour low-income housing
Lawrence Housing Authority takes commissioners to show changes. improvements
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence Housing Authority took city commissioners on a tour of low-rent houses yesterday to show them the improvements that had been made.
Barbara Huppee, director of the housing authority, said this was the third time that city commissioners had toured some of the houses.
She said the tour was intended to show the new commissioners the houses for the first time and to show the other commissioners the improvements since their last visit.
Commissioner John Nalbandian, who had never been on the tour, said he was surprised by the number of different styles of low-rent housing that existed in Lawrence.
"It is astounding how many we have and how many we still need," Naldarban said.
Mayor Bob Walters, who had been on the tour before, said it gave him the chance to see finished low-rent homes in north Lawrence.
Huppee said 950 people lived in the 319 low-rent units in Lawrence.
Twenty-five additional homes are being constructed and should be finished by early next year, Hueppel said.
Huppee said that the first homes the housing authority built were part of the Edgewood Homes complex, 1600 Haskell Ave. The complex has 130 units.
However, she said another complex designed like Edge-
wood Homes would never be built because it added to the
stigma of low-income housing.
Huppee said it was better to build single homes or duplexes on one site so that the low-income housing would blend with the rest of the neighborhood.
She said that low-income families needed to live in a well-established neighborhood where a mixture of families lived rather than in a high-density, low-income neighborhood.
She said that about 500 families were on the waiting list for low-income housing in Lawrence.
Before moving in, families are screened, checking the families' credithistory and former landlords for recommendations, she said.
Hupipe said that tenants paid 30 percent of their adjusted gross income, and that the federal government subsidized the rest of the rent.
City requests that state reconsider liquor license of the Los Amigos Saloon
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
For the second time since the state enacted a law during the spring giving cities more control of liquor licenses, Lawrence and state officials conducted a special hearing about the renewal of a local club's liquor license.
Walters asked the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the Kansas Department of Revenue to conduct a special hearing because the city had received two letters of complaint from the club's neighbors.
Mayor Bob Walters and Dave Corliss, management analyst for the city manager's office, in meto Inpeka yesterday with the owners and manager of the Los Amigos Saloon, 508 Locust St.
City officials were exercising a law passed during the last legislative session. The law enables a city or county to ask for a special hearing before the division if it does not approve of the renewal or issuance of a liquor license.
In the letters, neighbors said they were concerned about problems such as disturbing the peace, destruction of property, trespassing and car theft that had occurred in the area around Los Amigos Saloon.
Lawrence is the only city that has used the privilege since the law was passed. The city asked for a special hearing earlier this year when the Power Plant, 901 Mississippi St., requested a liquor license.
Walters said the club also endangered public safety.
Corris presented the division with copies of 22 police reports about incidents that occurred in the club's neighborhood.
The city also presented a list of 10 division citations that had been given to the club since July 15, 1988.
Kathy Greenlee, state assistant attorney general, said the city's request did not mean that Los Amigos Saloon
Both parties had the chance yesterday to present their cases before the division, which will make its decision in October.
Club owner Jesse Del Campo Sr., who has been owned the club since 1875, applied for a renewed Class B club license Sept. 4. Its license expired Sept. 16 but has been renewed temporarily until the division reaches a decision.
A club operating under a Class B license must sell memberships and allow only members their guests to enter
Jesse Del Campo Jr. manager of the club, said it should be on the rowdy behavior its customers while they were outside.
He said underage students often would come to the bar with their older friends and wait outside for them.
Many of these people go to liquor stores and bring alcohol with them to drink outside of the club. Del Camo Jr. said,
our kids does not serve underage peepers, but this does not step people from bringing alcohol to the neighborhood, he said.
Del Campo Jr. said the club had taken steps to improve the neighborhood's safety after it received earlier complication.
Extra employees were hired to watch the parking lot and to make sure that trash was not taken outside.
Robert Engler, director of the division, will make the final decision after the attorney for Los Amigos Salon has written a statement about the items that the city presented to the division.
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Friday, October 18th - Allen Fieldhouse
6:30 pm: Kansas Volleyball vs. Colorado 9:00 pm: Late Night activities begin...
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