Wednesday, April 16; 1986 Campus/Area University Daily Kansan 11 Bypass Continued from p. said, the entire county, including the University of Kansas, will benefit. Access to the new University Corporate and Research Park, the Sante Fe industrial park and a proposed eastern rail-served industrial park would be improved, she said. The research park, at 15th Street and Wakarau Drive, has about 60 sites for high-technology industry. Twelve of the sites have been committed to businesses already, said Bill Bollings, developer of the park The park is not officially tied to the University, Billings said, but there is a connection. "Our reason for being, really, is the University," he said. KU graduates will be able to get jobs, and faculty members could find consulting jobs at the park. Billings said. Marilyn Yarbrough, associate vice chancellor of research, graduate studies and public service, said the University did not recruit industries for the park but did cooperate with officials. Visitors to the research park also take a look at the campus, she said, and campus visitors considering giving grants are told about the park. Yarbrough spoke in favor of the bypass on behalf of the University at the first public hearing in November. "It's something we've been encouraged," she said. "Our position is that anything that helps economic development and the quality of life in Lawrence affects the University." Several others point to the westward growth of Lawrence and say that a bypass routing traffic around the city would ease congested Lawrence traffic. "We've got a growing traffic crisis here in Lawrence," said Dan Watkins, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Roads and Highways Committee. Since Kansas Highway 10 opened to Johnson County, Watkins said, people take Interstate 70 from the west, then drive through Lawrence to take K-10 to Kansas City. James Otten, vice president of Youth Sports Inc., said the group planned to begin construction this summer of a 55-acre complex for children under 18. A planned sports complex south of Clinton Parkway adjacent to Wakarusa Drive may also increase traffic, he said. Development in Lawrence is also creeping westward, increasing traffic. Officials estimate 12,000 more people will be living in the area between Clinton Parkway, Kasold Drive, Road 13 within the next 20 years. Development in Lawrence naturally creeps westward because of the Wakarusa and Kansas rivers, said Price Banks, city-county planning director. In about five years, Banks predicted, the city limits will be out to County Road 13. This growth, officials say, cannot be handled by the present street system. "If you don't have this route." Watkins said, "it all comes out 23rd Street." 23rd Street cannot handle the load, according to Hiebert. She said that in a recent study, engineers had rated the street's effectiveness from A to F, with F meaning complete overload. "Right now the 23rd and Iowa intersection is rated as an F." Hiebert said. "That's that. That says nothing about future growth we'll have." But Richardson said 23rd Street would always be crowded, regardless of whether a trafficway was constructed. He said that was because the University was in the center of Lawrence and KU students frequented the fast-food establishments on 23rd Street. Nation said he drove the route to and from work and that he could drive nine miles on the street in 18 minutes, a reasonable amount to In a recent advertisement in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, members of the group also said the bypass was proposed mainly for the town where they settled who owned land to the west. Billings said he owned about 2,500 acres bounded in general by Kasold Drive on the east, Clinton Parkway on the south, County Road 13 on the west and 15th Street, or in some places Sixth Street, on the north. He is planning to build a new housing development in the area to provide housing for those who would work at the research park. The development is planned for west of Alvamar, which Billings also developed. Billings said he hadn't been involved with bypass plans. "No one has really asked me about it," he said. "Obviously if I haven't been asked about it I haven't had a role in the plans." Richardson said his group had support from county residents and from Lawrence business people who were afraid that traffic would be taken from their businesses. "It's not a rural versus city situation," he said. And, he said, members plan to do a lot of talking at today's hearing. 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