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Friday, February 19, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Hayden asks city Chamber to support anti-zoning bill
By Iill less
Kansan staff writer
Gov. Mike Hayden yesterday asked Lawrence business owners to promote a bill that would reduce zoning restrictions statewide for group homes for the handicapped.
"We simply must have less restrictive and less expensive settings to provide group homes for the developmentally disabled." Hayden told the crowd of about 100 Chamber of Commerce members at a breakfast in the Adams Alumni Center.
The anti-zoning bill would eliminate city zoning laws that prohibit the use of group homes for the handicapped in residential areas.
Last week, the Kansas Senate Local Government Committee voted on the bill but failed to gain enough support but pushed it to the Senate floor for debate.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, a member of the committee, said that the first vote to send the bill to the floor with a favorable recommendation was a tie. The second vote to send the bill to the Senate with no recommendation also was a tie.
Winter, who supports the bill, said that most of the opponents of the bill in the committee thought the bill would take away power from the city governments.
"The basic premise was 'Hey, like this idea,' " Winter said. "But
they seem to think it's an erosion of local governments' rights to regulate themselves."
Lawrence officials said after the meeting that they did not support the bill. Mayor Mike Amyx said the lawcity commission had told area legislators that they did not want to relinquish zoning rights.
Lawrence zoning requires special permission to open a group home.
"We want to retain local control," he said.
Hayden said that zoning restrictions against group homes were discontinued.
"We cannot allow in this state, in this day and age, discrimination against the mentally ill, mentally retarded and developmentally disabled through zoning regulations," he said.
During the breakfast, Hayden praised the 58 Lawrence-area businesses that employed workers from the college workshop for the mentally retarded.
"I think it's important that we show support for those businesses willing to take a leadership role in the employment of the handicapped because we find that there still exists in our society if not a prejudice, at least a tremendous apprehension about the employment of the developmentally disabled and about their role and place in our society," Hayden said.
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"Minors under the age of 18 who are caught drinking and driving should receive stricter penalties for
court restricted her driver's license to driving between college and home, which is what the student was doing when she hit Stewart's car.
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"Driving is a privilege, not a right." Stewart said.
The bill would hit drunken drinkers 18 and under the hardest. If a person under 18 years of age refuses to take an alcohol blood or breath level test, fails the test or is convicted in an alcohol-related incident, that person's driving privileges would be revoked for one year or until the convicted driver reached the age of 18 whichever is longer.
Stewart and other proponents disagreed with committee members who thought the stricter penalties for boys under the age of 18 were unfair.
I think that if the penalties had been stricter in 1981, my son might not have been killed.'
— Wanda Stewart
Kansas coordinator for
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
two reasons", Stewart said. "First, it's against the law to drink unless you are 21; and second, it's against the law to drink and drive."
Stewart and Pickert agreed that the law concerning minors would have a greater impact if the penalties were increased.
"I think that if the penalties had been stricter in 1981, my son might not have been killed," Stewart said.
Budget
already signed the tax increase required under the agreement, adding $14 billion to the Treasury's receipts for next year.
The president's plan envisions spending $1.094 trillion overall, offset by $968 billion in receipts. That would leave a deficit of about $129.5 billion in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. That is within the guidelines of the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law and down from $151.4 billion last year and an estimated $146 billion this year.
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A spokeswoman for the protesters, Joella Costello, described the scene inside the New Africa House Thursday as "chaos" and said, "The work has just begun." She said a committee had been appointed from among the protesters to monitor the implementation of the agreement.
Because of the agreement with congressional leaders, Reagan was forced for the first time to submit a military budget that would not keep pace with inflation.
Restrained to $294 billion in outlays, up from $285.4 billion this year, the president proposed reducing the cost of the aircraft developing the goal of a 600-ship Navy.
On the domestic side of the ledger, the president requested new spending authority that he has resisted in the past but which Congress would likely favor in an election year, including:
■ An increase of $1.5 billion, or 8 percent, for education.
$1.3 billion for AIDS research, a 38 percent increase.
$ 633 million to begin construction of the Superconducting Super Collider, a huge new atomic research facility.
A 13 percent boost, to $3.9 billion, for drug law enforcement and treatment programs.
- Full funding for a $2.5 billion, five-year program to combat acid rain, and an increase in spending for hazardous waste cleanup.
A 44 percent increase, to $1.6 billion, for the Federal Aviation Administration to modernize its air traffic control system.
But Reagan offset those increases by calling for a halt to Amtrak and mass transit subsidies, ending Urban Development Action Grants, and eliminating the Interstate Commerce Commission and Economic Development Administration. In addition, government assets such as loan portfolios, the Alaska power administration and the Naval Petroleum Reserve would be sold.
White students support Amherst racism protest
■ $11.5 billion for space programs, including the manned space station and space shuttle improvements.
AMHERST, Mass. — A nearly weeklong occupation of a University of Massachusetts building by minorities protesting racism was plaucd by many white students yesterday.
The Associated Press
Nearly all of the dozen students interviewed at random yesterday at the rural campus of 25,000 students said they supported the more than 100 blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Indians who held the building for six days.
Many of the students who praised the protesters said the occupation of New Africa House was carried out and peacefully they wouldn't have known about it except for the daily stories in the campus newspaper.
"It's not like they were violent. They were just sitting in the building making a statement," said junior Marc Ricciardelli, of Lynnfield.
The takeover ended Wednesday after negotiators reached an agreement with University Chancellor Joseph D. Duffey that included a promise to keep other school departments from encroaching on Third World program space in the New Africa House, a statement in the student code of conduct regarding racial harassment and efforts to recruit more minority students.
"Their demands were not all that unreasonable," said senior Miguel Gusilis, of Cambridge.
The minorities took over the building to protest the alleged beating of two black students by whites earlier this month and the continued atmosphere of racial tension on campus. The most recent incident came 16 months after a racial clash over the 1986 World Series in which 10 students were injured.
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