6 Thursday, April 28, 1988 / University Daily Kansan City decides to reduce speed limit after neighborhood group's appeal By Dayana Yochim Kansan staff writer Last month, about 60 white paper signs lined the streets in University Place neighborhood to show support for reducing the speed limit from 30 mph to 20 mph. Next month real signs will replace them, with a compromise speed of 25 mph. The change was unanimously approved by the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday night. Although neighborhood residents originally requested that the speed limit be lower, a spokesman said the Neighborhood Association said that the new speed was acceptable. "A 30 mph speed limit for a residential area is too high," said Neva Entrikin, the spokesman. "We're hoping that this change will set a precedent. If 25 miles per hour does not address our needs, we will go back to the City Commission." The neighborhood is bounded by 19th Street, Sunnyside Avenue, Louisiana Street and Naismith Drive. in this neighborhood, we service six major parking areas," Enterkin said. "People are using our streets to get some place else. The University is on our north, and the school speed limit is on our south." Commissioner Dennis Constance said that he thought the decision to lower the speed limit might set a precedent. precedent. "It would be safer for children living in the area and it might discourage those who don't live in the neighborhood from using those streets." In other traffic business? ■ The commission designed installation of a traffic signal at 19th and 20th floors. They deferred placement of a crossing guard at that location until the city can decide on an overall crossing guard plan. Ley approved the installation of a traffic signal at 19th Street and Naismith Drive. Funding for the project will be considered this summer as part of the 1989 budget. They approved the installation of a four-way stop at 18th and Illinois streets even though the intersection does not meet minimum volumes to warrant the four-way stop. Residents discuss Oread rezoning request By Christine Martin Kansan staff write Lawrence residents and property owners discussed a downonning request for the Oread neighborhood last night, the third public hearing to be held since the request was made in December. The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission took no action on the request, which would limit apartment construction in the area, but directed the planning staff to compile findings of fact to support their recommendation. The planning staff recommended approval of downzoning only on a property owner's request. The request, made by the Oread Neighborhood Association, would rezone 119 lots in the 900 blocks of Indiana and Louisiana streets and the 900 and 1000 blocks of Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee streets. The neighborhood association wants to rezone from high-density duplex, multifamily residential and resident complexes to lowest unit-family zoning. Two members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, 104 Mississippi St., opposed the rezoning because, under the new regulations, the fraternity would not be able to expand beyond the capacity of rooms it already has if the building burned down or sustained major damage. richard Zinn, a Lawrence attorney representing a property owner, said the zoning would not reduce density in the neighborhood. Todd Thompson, a Lawrence attorney representing two property owners, said that rezoning would be a dramatic action and have a significant impact on the residents in the neighborhood. "The neighborhood is fundamentally sound." Thompson said. "There is no reason to change the zoning." Fred Sack, president of the Oread Neighborhood Association, said that without the rezoning, homeowners would be pushed out of the neighborhood by people who rent houses as apartments. "They're not neighborhoods, they're apartment houses," Sack said. "They're not what you want to live around." KU researchers' polymer helps get more oil from wells Bv Dayana Yochim Kansan staff writer A once-abandoned oil field in Elk County is producing oil for the first time in 20 years because of the efforts of research scientists at the University of Kansas. Lanny Schooling, field engineer for the KU Tertiary Oil Recovery Project, helps an oil company reach untapped oil by injecting a polymer gel that look like Jell-O into oil wells. get the job done If used statewide, the gel could increase oil production in Kansas by up to 10 percent. up to 10 percent Primary recovery methods now being used in many oil wells are not tapping all the oil they can, said project co-director G. Paul Wilhite. primary recovery methods involve flooding a well with water, pushing the oil into collection tanks. The problem, Willhite said, is that the water only goes into the most porous rocks. rocks. The tertiary recovery process involves adding the gel to the water when it is injected into the wells. The gel attaches to rocks in the most permeable rock layer, filling cracks in rocks that the water normally would seep through. would sleep in again. When the water is flushed into the well again, the previously untapped oil is forced to the surface Since 1863, Schooling has conducted 21 field tests with the gel and helped Kansas oil companies tap 11,000 barrels of oil that they couldn't get to before. we use technology being researched at the University to assist the oil operators," he said. "We do not play the role of consultant. 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