Friday, April 20, 1979
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Plan designed to improve Oread
By KATE POUND
Staff Reporter
Ald Landon and William Allen White lived there as students and professors Garruth
To the east and north of the University of Kansas is the Oread neighborhood, which has been home for thousands of KU students and faculty members since the 1800s.
The neighborhood extends from Ninth street to West Street and from Missouri Street to Massachusetts.
Today, 3,000 people, 45 percent of students, live in Oread. Residents have joined with city officials to plan the neighborhood's future.
That neighborhood plan has become a catalyst for improvements, according to Kathryn Clark, president of the 2-year-old Oread Neighborhood Association. The association is an organization of more than 200 landowners within the neighborhood's boundaries.
Some of the goals of the neighborhood plan are improved street lighting, new parking facilities, sidewalk repairs and zoning changes.
THE PLAN, developed by the city's planning office, must be approved by the Lawrence City Commission before it will be put into action. Once approved, its goals will be ranked in order of priority and Community investment money will be budgeted for them.
The planning office developed the plan after surveying Ouread residents and studying housing needs.
Downzoning won't cut the amount of housing available to students in Oread, Garner Stoll, city planner, said recently. However, because it would encourage rental property owners to improve their buildings, he said, some rents may be raised.
The plan calls for downwoning, or changing residential zones to decrease population.
"It could hurt people who need an extremely cheap place to live," he said.
Lynn Goodelli, director of the Lawrence Community Development office, agreed that if the neighborhood were downzoned, landlords would take better care of their properties. Existing buildings will not be affected by downzoning, but if a structure is torn down, the number of living units in a new building would be limited.
PART OF THE association's efforts to help this plan include the Oread Neighborhood Trust.
The program already has brought results, she said. Burglaries in Oread during this year's spring break were down 60 percent from the same week last year.
The Anti-Crime Program sponsors crime prevention classes, "Block Watch" programs and security checks of neighborhood homes to Nan Harper, the program's director.
Other parts of the Oread plan call for bicycle paths and improved sidewalks. More than half of the Oread residents walk or bike to the survey location, which is taken by the planning office.
Residents disagreed on how well the
neighborhood has been maintained and improved.
JANE STEVENES, 1123 Louisiana, said many neighborhood houses had been allowed to deteriorate. Stevens and her husband, Richard, have lived in Oread for more than 70 years and during that time, she said, the neighborhood had changed from being primarily owner-occupied homes to absentee landlord rental units.
Stevens said the neighborhood, which was called Faculty Row during the first half of the century, was still a good place to live, because of the Oread Neighborhood Association.
"It's good to see people trying to improve themselves," she said.
For some, the neighborhood's main advantage is its location.
"We moved here because we would be closer to campus." Carolyn Hall, Ells
Other students said they had been attracted by Oread's buildings.
"I'd much rather live in a big, old house than in an apartment complex. Marina Polo is one of my favorite places."
However, for some students, location and nethetics do not outweigh the disadvantage of being at home.
"I won't even consider living there now," she said.
One former Oread resident said she had left the neighborhood after she and a new neighbor bought her.
Other Oread residents complained of the noise from nearby taverns and a lack of furniture.
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Lawrence police pay raises rejected
City officials yesterday rejected a request from city police officers for a cost of living pay raise on the grounds that it violated President Carter's anti-inflation guidelines, Kevin Burt, director of the city employee relations office, said.
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The rejection came during a meeting yesterday morning between city officials and representatives of the police officers.
"We want to continue the dialogue between the two sides," he said.
Although the city rejected the proposal
However, he said, the city officials thought they had a "moral obligation" to follow the anti-inflation guidelines. The mayor said that pay raises be held to under 1 percent.
The police officers' request would have meant an increase of more than 10 percent.
Police officers plan no specific action because of the rejection, Gary Sampson, chairman of the Lawrence Police Officers Association, said.
"At this point in time, both sides are just checking out where the other side stands," Sampson said.
Hydrogen sulfur gas leak is cleaned up
A faulty storage cylinder caused a hydrogen sulfur leak in Malott Hall Wednesday, Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, said yesterday.
gases can't escape because they were absorbed," he said.
Bricker said the faulty cylinder would be taken back to the supplier.
Bricker said the cylinder, which stored hydrogen sulfur gases, passed no more pressure.
"With the east wind, the odor was blown in by the library as the cylinder leaked," he said.
Bricker said the freshman chemistry labs, which used minute amounts of hydrogen sulfur, had nothing to do with the leak.
The hydrogen sulfur fumes were strongest in the book stacks on Maloff's sixth-floor window.
"There are no more problems. The
doll was caught and expelled and the games
were collected in the library."
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"It's been a while."
Bricker said the fumes drifted into the black stack because the cylinder was too small.
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