University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 20, 1979
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KU construction pace slows with enrollment decline
By JOHN LOGAN Staff Reporter
As enrolments decrease at the University of Kansas, so will KU's near-friended pace of construction, according to Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning.
Wiechert, who oversees all construction plans for KU, said the University would change its emphasis from building new buildings to existing structures during the next decade.
Wiechert the switch would be made because KU was catching up on the classroom shortage caused by the enrollment boom of the 1960s.
"When enrollment declines over the next
WIECHERT SAID a master plan for University buildings called for the renovation during the next decade of Spooner, Old Green, Flint, Snow, Strong, Vinnie and Lindy halls. KU also is planning to renovate Walton Library, he said.
few years, there will no longer be a shortage of space," Wiechcik said. "We will then concentrate on upgrading existing space to bring it up to proper standards."
Most of the renovations are in the planning stage, but the Kansas Legislature alrrest has allocated $1.2 million for low-rise halls and work on those halls would begin this year.
A $6.2 million renovation of Watson Library is scheduled to begin next winter, he said, and will take 18 months to complete. Old Green Hall will house parts of the library collection while Watson is being renovated. Wiechert is said.
Renovation will be emphasized, but new construction will continue at KU during the next decade. Wiechert said most of the new classrooms will not support facilities, rather than classrooms.
THE LARGEST project will be a $40 million science technology library to be built in the area of the Military Science building.
Wieckert said the proposed library would combine the libraries of the schools of architecture and engineering and the mathematics, drama, music and science libraries. These libraries are in different buildings.
Wiechert said construction for a science library would begin in a few years and would cost between $15 million and $20 million. Additional space would be added until the library met the estimated needs for the year 2000, he said.
Wiechert said a major addition to Hayworth Hall also was being planned. The 100,000 square foot addition would link Hayworth to the new Maiott Hall addition and would house offices and labs for the life sciences.
NO ESTIMATE has been made on the cost.
but Wischert said the cost would rise at least 10 percent each year because of inflation.
Other construction projects on campus include a $6.7 million addition to Robinson Gymnasium and a $2.5 million satellite union.
Wiechert also said a number of projects were being discussed for West Campus, including an alumni center and faculty club, the College Club, the Student Association and possibly a trash-burning power plant.
A six-member committee of the Kansas Alumni Association recently was appointed to study the possibility of a combined alumni center and faculty club. Construction of the center would be financed by private donations.
Wieckert said the new additions for FO would include workshops, space for the motor pool, storage areas and a central receiving area for University supplies.
A REQUEST for $880,000 to complete designs for a trash-burning power plant on West Campus was rejected this year, but the University plans to keep applying.
"With the rising costs of fuel and with the two fuels the University uses scheduled to run out at the turn of the century, we need to change fuel anyway," Wiechert said.
"The plant would eliminate the need for the county sanitary landfill and would provide a much-needed source of income."
Planning problems face Pinckney area
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
If Pinckney Neighborhood Association leaders are correct, the future of their neighborhood depends on planning.
"There are two ways to look at the future," Michael Shaw, association secretary, said. "Either we succeed in planning or we won't succeed in planning."
The neighborhood is bordered by Second Street on the north, the Kansas River on the east, Sixth Street on the south and the Kansas Turnpike Access Road on the west. It is characterized by older homes, fast and newer subdivisions in the west.
One task facing the association is to balance the concern of commercial areas against the problems they create in neighborhoods. The main problem is the area on Sixth Street zoned for commercial use and its potential expansion northward into residential areas.
"THE AREA between Fourth and Sixth streets is appealing as a business area, but it's not a good business area—there are lots of failed businesses," Shaw said. "It's priced too high for residences and it's not good for businesses."
"It will either decay or improve, depending on how we plan."
The homes in the eastern half of the neighborhood were built between 1857 and 1915. Most date from the 1870's.
A survey conducted four years ago determined that 68 percent of the homes in the neighborhood were "sound," requiring no repairs, and that only 1 percent were "dilapidated," requiring major repairs.
"Housing has been a major priority. We're trying to save the single-family houses that are being torn down for doctors offices," she said.
Jane Eldridge, president of the association, said the association was especially involved in zoning. A major goal, she said, was to downsize the area from Tennessee Street to Michigan Street for single-family residences only.
THE PINCKNEY Neighborhood Association was formed in 1974 after
residents joined together to fight a city maintenance garage that was to be built in the neighborhood. It has 60 active members.
Last June, the Lawrence City Commission approved the Pinkney Neighborhood Plan, a general outline of how and where neighborhood would expand in the next 20 years.
The plan was developed "to maintain and enhance the Pinckney neighborhood while providing non-residential uses that are vital to the neighborhood and accommodating those non-residential uses necessary to the community at large."
The plan predicted that the current neighborhood population of about 2,400 homes in San Francisco increased by 20 years—an increase of 33 percent, compared with city-wide growth estimates of 18%.
The plan also predicted that because of the proximity to downtown, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and KU, there would be room for low and for low and middle income housing.
In addition to zoning, the association is pushing for an improved storm drainage system and is trying to get areas of the city with stormwater runoff. The National Register of Historic Places.
"We still have the original brick sewers, which are 12 inches in diameter," Eldred said.
Whenever a hard rain occurs, she said,
the curbing system is flooded with runoff
water.
Eldridge said she hoped that the neighborhood would continue to improve and would have a variety of people living in it.
"We have professors and students, blacks and whites, well educated and poorly educated, rich and poor," she wrote. "I needed him and we're trying to hold on to it."
"We are all trying to improve a place we all care about. It's hard to say what the neighborhood will be like 10 years away, but it's my hope that we keep the mix.
"Of course, if we're too successful, we'll price the people out of the neighborhood that give us that mix."
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