University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 11, 1987
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County hopes for passage of land bill
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Douglas County officials are hoping that the Kansas Legislature will quickly pass a bill that they say would ensure "community control" of development in Lawrence's new industrial park.
The Senate Local Government Committee is expected to approve a bill Friday that would allow counties to sell land to non-profit corporations without going through a public bidding process.
Douglas County Development is a non-profit company incorporated by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce to handle marketing of the industrial park but now has no connection to the chamber.
The county wants to sell industrial park lots only to businesses that are likely to make a long-term investment in the community, McKenzie said. Under the public bidding process, which would require the county to sell property to the highest bidder, that criteria couldn't be guaranteed, he said.
All Kansas counties, except for Johnson, Sedgwick and Shawnee, must sell property valued between $25,000 and $100,000 to the highest bidder. Voters must approve the sale of any property valued at more than $100,000.
But Douglas County Development, because it is a corporation, isn't required to sell to the highest bidder and can negotiate all sales. McKenzie said.
"We want it to be a quality development. We want it to be community controlled," he said.
Gary Toebben, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, said that if the bill was defeated, the county probably would divide the industrial park into plots worth less than $25,000 and sell them directly to Douglas County Development.
The Senate committee discussed the bill yesterday and was "receptive." McKenzie said
"We didn't get any negative comments," he said.
But Tim Miller, publisher of "Plumber's Friend," a monthly newspaper that is often critical of city and county development plans, said the bill would give public officials and their friends, not the community, control over development.
"Current state law tries to prevent public officials from wheeling and dealing in secret and making sweetheart deals with their friends," Miller said. "I think the public treasury benefits from the highest bidder process."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said the bill should pass easily. Douglas County officials asked Winter to introduce the bill.
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