University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 25, 1987
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Parking unaltered for handicapped
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
A proposed change in handicapped parking rules was sent back to the drawing board by Lawrence City Commissioners last night after several handicapped people complained that they had not been consulted.
The city had proposed changing the city's standard to conform to federal rules that require stalls to be eight feet wide with an adjacent five-foot-wide aisle. The city now requires 12-foot stalls and no aisle.
The federal rules, which apply to businesses or agencies that use federal money or are under federal contract, also permit two stalls to share the same aisle.
Price Banks, city planning director, said the city had consulted only area handicapped transportation agencies and not handicapped people who used their own cars.
Barbara Lumley, who uses a wheelchair and is chairman of the Lawrence Commission on Needs of Persons Having Disabilities, said, "The agencies don't know what we have to go through."
Lumley said her group was not consulted, although the group's members were appointed by the city commission.
Barbara Bradford, who also uses a wheelchair, said that stalls in the city were barely wide enough now and that federal standards would make the situation worse.
Wheelchair-lift vans are six feet wide, and the lift extends four feet out from the side of the van, Bradford said. It's hard to maneuver a wheelchair in the remaining two or three feet, she said.
"My need is to simply not be blocked in," she said.
Bradford said people rarely parked evenly in the stalls.
Stalls that conform to federal rules also are a problem because wheelchair-lift vans let passengers out on the right side, Bradford said. Drivers would be forced to back into one of the stalls to make use of the aisle.
Not only is backyard parking illegal, but wheelchair-lift vans have no windows on the right side, which are backward parking dangerous, she said.
Lumley said people who use mechanisms that store manual wheelchairs on top of cars need to open their car doors completely. The stalls rarely provide such space, she said.
Architecture master's has new home, focus
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
The School of Architecture's master's program has changed and moved this semester.
Dennis Domer, associate dean of the school, said the master's program had moved from Lawrence to the Regents Center in Overland Park. The 36-hour program now focuses on architectural management to meet the needs of professionals in management positions who received little management training as undergraduates.
"We're just changing our program to meet a stated need, especially among young professionals who have found themselves in management and haven't had any management classes in school."
Domer said only one management class was offered in KU's undergårdship.
"The main emphasis in undergraduate programs is on design." said Frank Zilm, head of Frank Zilm and Associates architecture firm in Kansas City. Mo., and Kansas city coordinator of the master's program." "As a result, typically there is a lack of time to provide management programs."
Two classes are offered in the master's program this semester. One features guest lecturers from universities across the country who speak on specific management problems. The other course is taught by both architects and banking representatives.
Zilm said almost all the 30 students enrolled in the program's classes were professionals with five to 10 years experience with Kansas City area firms. He said most students' tutions were paid by the firms they worked for.
Demand for master's programs in management will increase because one of six architects are involved in management, he said.
Paul Jorgensen, architect with Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendorf in Kansas City, Mo., is enrolled in both management courses. He said he enrolled because he had always been interested in graduate school and management and because KU's was the only program he knew of.
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