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Friday, April 20, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Long-range plan guides development of Lawrence
By LORILINENBERGER
The city of Rome was not built in a day.
Today, city planners in Lawrence apparently agree that cities must be the result of careful planning.
Therefore, in an effort to direct growth and expansion in Lawrence, a device was introduced several years ago to promote qualitative growth, Roger K. Hedrick, Lawrence-Douglas County planning director, said.
That device was Plan 95, a comprehensive planning guide for the city of New York.
Adopted in 1977, Plan '95 contains recommendations for "proper coordinated development and redevelopment of the community at large."
No strict rules concerning growth are set down in Plan '95. It is a collection of flexible guidelines and principles established to advise Lawrence city planers on the most desirable path to growth and expansion of the city.
HEDRICK SAID the city of Lawrence and Douglas County decided that to manage growth in the Lawrence area, a plan with goals, goals and policies had to be created.
"We wanted to make sure that all the growth that does occur is of a qualitative kind," he said. "You can't depend on luck, because would happen in a haphazard way."
Plan '95 deals with several areas designated as crucial by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission in 1975, including community attitude survey taken in 1975.
Those areas include appearance and image of the city; commercial and industrial development; a throughfare system; transportation; public buildings and services; utilities and related services; schools; parks, recreation and open space;
housing and neighborhood; and community development.
Each section in Plan '56 dealing with these areas offers an account of the status quo, the impact that growth would have and guidelines for making changes.
IN ADDITION, goals, objectives and policies for each area are included at the end of this chapter.
It is difficult to determine how closely
Plan "50" is followed by planning directors and
other staff members.
"First of all, the plan is designed to allow for a certain amount of flexibility," he said.
I think that the tools provided in Plan 95 allow us a certain freedom of freedom to work with them.
Possible deviations from the plan make it difficult to determine what Lawrence would look like in 1955 if the plan were followed as is, Hedrick said.
"We don't consider Plan '95 a static plan," he said. "We call it a continual planning process. The plan should continue to evolve as changes occur every year."
Hedrick said the plan made projections for population growth in Lawrence and St. Louis.
The population in Lawrence was 49,989 in 1975. According to Plan 95, the probable population by the year 2000 is 62,500. The population in Douglas County was 63,863 in 1975. By 2000, that figure is expected to increase to 77,000.
"As far as which direction Lawrence is headed, you'll see most of it growing west between Youll Street and Highway 40," he said.
ALTHOUGH HEDRICK said he could not determine exactly what changes would occur in Lawrence between now and 1996, he wrote in articles about Lawrence growth and expansion.
These figures include KU students living in Lawrence and Douglas County.
If the original purpose of the plan is followed, population growth in Lawrence will be efficiently accommodated and plans for expansion will be analyzed thoroughly to offer as many advantages as possible to Lawrence area residents, Hedrick said.
"I think you'll see a lot more incessant ... town," he added. "At the same time, you'll continue to see an increased interest in the construction of older homes and neighborhood."
"That shall always be the intent, no matter how the plan itself may change as we grow."
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Changes are bound to occur, and the city commission, in a resolution adopting Plan 6984, will implement them.
IT CALED for acceptance of Plan '50 on the grounds that it be used primarily as an aid to the planning commission, but not as the last word on all issues.
The resolution said that the plan should not act as a "limitation upon the power of the city commission to act with respect to the land use of land or the expenditure of public funds."
In addition, the resolution said Plan "85
"should not be interpreted in such a manner
as to discourage expansion of the corporate
limits of the City of Lawrence . . ."
Hedrick said he be did not think Plan 58 included restrictions that would limit flight paths.
"Some cities use devices in their comprehensive plans, like limiting the number of building permits issued every year, so that new buildings don't Plan 95 doesn't include restrictions like this."
"We DONT want to avoid growth. We want to manage and direct it to obtain a quality, instead of merely quantity, growth."
As planning director, Hedrick will play a major role in directing lawrence growth in his firm.
He called himself a moderate on the issue of growth in Lawrence.
"I'd probably consider myself a proponent of managed growth—something that we can handle," he said. "I think that you have grown, they grow they to become a little stargazer."
He said he though Plan 95 worked in the best interests of Lawrence and should be considered when making important zoning decisions.
Plan "56" was first drafted by Ron Jones and Associates, a consulting firm in Olathe. From that draft, Hedrick said, the planning staff and planning commission reworked it, using input from open public meetings whenever possible.
"It offers templates that are going to be pertinent in any major decision," he petitioned.
The plan took about three years to complete and was financed in part through a comprehensive planning grant from the Housing and Urban Development
Professors emeritus
Paul Roofe and Ruth McNair, KU professors emeritus, combined teaching experience totals 58 years and both agree.
there have been many changes in the University since they taught. Rooke taught anatomy and neurology from 1946 to 1970.
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
Retired profs notice changes in student-faculty relationships
By TOM ZIND Staff Reporter
Changes at the University of Kansas probably seem slow and barely detectable to most of its students and some of its faculty. But for Paul Roofe and Ruth McNair, KU professors emeritus who spent a decade expands 38 years, KU is much different from what it used to be.
Roofe and McNair agree that relationships between students and faculty have changed.
Roofe, who taught anatomy and neurology at KU from 1945 to 1970, said there seemed to be a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment in his work.
"The style of teaching has changed a great deal," he said. "We had a great pride and integrity that we felt. We didn't put ourselves on a pedestal, but we did have a high respect for education and a sense of purpose."
ROOFE, WHO attended Kansas State University and the University of Chicago, said today's professors lacked the cohesive feeling and the closeness that characterized the faculty during his teaching days.
"But maybe it's because I'm getting old that I recognize the difference," Roofe said.
Ncairn, who taught biology at KU from 1931 to 1944, said faculty members during her years knew on another and said
"We did things together—Christmas parties, chancellor's receptions," she said. "Now it would be impossible to do that."
MNeair attributed the closeness of the faculty to the smaller size of the University at that time. The student body numbered
The two professors, who live at Sprague Apartments, the KU complex for retired professors, disagree on the nature of students
"I THINK the students are just as dedicated and serious today as they were when I was teaching." Roofe said.
In fact, Roofe said, when he first began teaching, students were not as dedicated as they are now.
"When I first came to Kansas during the war, there were very few students who really had a gut feeling of what they were going to do."
With the coming of the nuclear age after World War II, people noticed the changes that were taking place and the necessity of using them.
"The people I had to deal with in the professional schools were definitely more dedicated after the war," he said.
But Roofe said that students had remained much the same through the years.
"Basically, they're just the same as they were in the Roman and Egypt empires—only the cream of the crop rise to the top."
MNEAIR SAID that she was concerned about the lack of medication of today's students.
"It does seem that we have a lot of uninterested students," she said. "I think we have some very fine students, but I think there is a trend toward them."
Students today tend to want to experience as much as they can, as quickly as they can, McNair said. She said that during her freshman year, she took classes with Mr. Ruffino.
"We did not try to cram our experiences into a couple of years," she said. "We felt that there was time to do those things as much as we could."
Both McMair and Roofe reckill vividly the turmul of the 1960s and early 1970s at KU, when demonstrations and violence shook the campus and climaxed in the burning of the Kansas Union in the spring of 1971.
ROOFE, WHO was finishing his teaching career during that time, said students were just reacting to some issues that contained serious problems.
Rofe said the students wanted to make the point that there was something wrong with the social system. He said, he heard, she told him. "It's really not true."
"When the Union burned, I was overwhelmed—it was such a shock," he said. "At first the hippies came along and I just thought it was a weird world we were living in, but actually they were not too far off."
McNair said she thought the student body was not at fault for what happened at KU during those years, but that the troubled学生 was able to make a difference.
"I was awfully proud of the student body when we were having all of our trouble," she said.
Roofe, who lived near campus at 1318 Louisiana St. during his teaching career, said Lawrence had mademounted since he began
"The greatest change has been in suburbia, with all the shopping malls and homes," he said.
McNair can recall when many of today's major throughfares were just country roads.
"Naismish was just a dirt road for a long time, and the business district was restricted to an area that didn't go past 19th Street," she said.
By LEO CAROSELLA
Staff Renorter
Plans for a new city hall in downtown Lawrence may be flying high, but several other cities are considering such a move.
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Airport, much-needed expansion has never gotten off the ground, according to Brad Snyder.
However, airport improvements soon may be taking off, he said.
The bricks used to build the hanger were made by the public works programs of that era and now are crumbling. Sidewalks and paths are interrupted by potholes. And the terminal, although it appears to be more ancient than the hanger, also is starting to show its age.
The first of the planned improvements, the repavement of the two 9,900-foot runways, was completed last fall. Next on the agenda is the renovation of the terminal and other airport buildings, which date back to the depression years.
"EVENTUALLY WE'LL need a 5,000-foot
Although he would not discuss specific plans for improvements, Bartholomew, who became airport manager six weeks ago, did cite two pressing needs.
"We've lost corporate contracts for the
use of our airport because of our limited
operational capacity."
runway to increase out traffic," he said.
Amherst, five years, "I like to see a new terminal."
To prevent this from happening in the future, Bartholomew said he would like to see the community show more interest in its airport.
According to Barboliowem, Lawrence's airport is smaller and has less facilities than that of the airline at Bristol.
"We'd like to rework our operations and expand our facilities," he said. "But we need public support, and no one knows we're here."
About 60 planes are stationed full time at the airport. More than 100 take-offs and landings are made daily. Included in this figure are the commuter flights to Kansas City International Airport.
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