Improvement plan outlined by Lawrence city planner
In a speech sponsored Tuesday night by the Ecology Action group at the University of Kansas, Ronald Short, Lawrence city planner, outlined what is being done to improve the city through better planning and development.
Short said the most important aspect to be considered in city planning is the development of a master or comprehensive plan to present an overall and long-term system for beneficial development of the city.
The plan itself, he said should show definite relationships of elements of the plan to land use, transportation community facilities and utilities so that specific benefits can be planned for specific areas of need.
An important aspect of city planning, Short said, is that planners and developers should recognize that physical limitations of the environment in which they will work.
The city must also take community inventories to determine the cultural and popular characteristics of the residents so that specific public and private needs of space for community institutions can be found, he said. Also, alternate plans for development can then be taken into consideration.
Also, he said, the board hopes to preserve such natural physical features as streams, ponds and wooded areas by long-term planning so that the natural beauty of particular areas can be left untouched.
Short said the Kansas Geological Survey has been working with the Lawrence planning board to provide information about soil composition and compatibility. This, he said, will give the planning board the opportunity to determine which direction city development should take place so that weak or unstable soil can be avoided since it can effect the life span of structures.
Along, with working on various urban studies, the Lawrence planning board has also developed subdivision regulations for the
Council to discuss quorum
The university Council will meet at 3:30 p.m. in 108 Blake Hall, Thursday. The agenda for the meeting is expected to include some discussion of the problems of the University Senate to maintain a quorum, Charles Oldfather said Wednesday. Oldfather is chairman of the University Executive Committee and associate dean of the law school.
"I think the problems are obvious," Oldfather said. One problem is how to finalize the business which the Senate was expected to finalize and the other problem is what steps ought to be taken in dealing with the recurring problem of maintaining a quorum."
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The University Senate has failed for three consecutive weeks to obtain a quorum. Consequently, none of the senate's business has been completed.
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city and the county to help preserve more open spaces and has also updated the comprehensive plan for the city.
Short, who received his masters degree in regional and city planning from the University of Oklahoma, has been a city planner for 10 years in the Southwest and has been with the Lawrence board since June.
KU-Y picks two for co-presidents
New KU-Y executive officers were elected Tuesday evening in a membership meeting at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union,
Officers are Gary Gardner, McPherson sophomore, and Laura Friesen, Clay Center junior, copresidents; Barry Albin, Topeka senior, and Dee Ann Cavineye, Paola sophomore, co-voice presidents; Doug Everley, Salina junior, secretary; and Phyllis Farrar, Norwich junior, treasurer.
Laura Friesen, newly elected co-president, said interviews for cabinet positions will be held during the second week of April. She also said the Trash Pickup Project will be held April 26.
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