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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1986
Are open parking spaces in sight? Study will tackle parking problem
By Lori Polson
Staff writer
The KU Parking and Traffic Board will conduct a comprehensive campus parking and engineering study to try to alleviate overcrowded parking lots, a Parking Services official said yesterday.
The Senate Executive Committee heard the plans for the study yesterday at their monthly meeting.
The study will consider the feasibility of building a mass transit system on one edge of campus, said the official, Donna Hultine, assistant director of Parking Services. The
The limited number of parking spaces at the University often causes frustration for faculty members and students who cannot find a place to park, she said.
system would include a large parking lot with shuttle buses for transportation to and from campus.
"I do think there must be more people up here with cars this year," she said.
George Crawford, chairman of the Parking Services board, said the study would examine existing parking spaces and policies at the University. The firm doing the study will
then make recommendations for improvements to the board, he said.
"There is definitely a need for this study," he said.
Hultine said, "We do have a parking problem at the University. We hope the study will make some major proposals."
Plans already are underway to build two new parking lots on campus, Hultine said.
Friday is the final day for firms to present bids for the study, Hultine said. The study, financed by Parking Services, will begin this spring and conclude by Dec. 1. It will examine parking problems during the spring and fall semesters.
Greg Wade, campus landscape architect, said one lot, containing 50 parking spaces, would be built on the east side of the Computer Center.
The lot east of Watkins Hospital will be expanded by 30 parking places, he said.
"We are drawing up the blueprints now," he said. "I expect work will begin sometime in the next construction season, which begins in May."
The city planning commission had recommended that the commission vacate 11th Street, but not 12th and 13th streets.
Mayor Mike Amyx said the city commission had instructed the planning commission to consider alternatives, but they apparently had not.
That plat shows the rights of way for 12th and 13th streets extended west from Western Hills into the undeveloped subdivision.
Linda Lubensky, a spokesman for a Western Hills neighborhood association, said residents were concerned that if the right of way was not vacated and through-streets were constructed, the condition of the streets would deteriorate and they would require pavement.
The subdivision in question is immediately east of some undeveloped land for which preliminary plats have been drawn.
Vacating the rights of way would prohibit the construction of streets and require the city to maintain the streets' oiled surface, according to city staff members.
City commissioners last night scheduled a study session to consider alternatives to vacating rights of way to streets in the Western Hills subdivision.
City considers maintenance of streets
The idea of extending 11th Street to the west also was raised at that time.
If the rights of way are not vacated, it would allow the construction of streets, but would not trigger their construction, according to staff members.
In December, Western Hills residents requested that the City Commission vacate the rights of way for 12th and 13th streets on the western limits of the subdivision.
Staff writer
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