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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 26, 2001
DAVID DUNFIELD
David Dunfield is an architect running for re-election to the commission.
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He voted to change the number of unrelated people who can live together in residences zoned for single families from four to three. He supports landlord registration and said it
Dunfield
could be a tool for compiling information on rental properties.
He would support integration of Lawrence Transit System and KU on Wheels. He supports completing the South Lawrence Trafficway south of the Wakarusa River because of the environmental and cultural sensitivity of other routes.
He would support tax abatements — exempting new companies from paying taxes in order to draw them to Lawrence
— in rare circumstances and only for companies that were "technologically, socially and environmentally progressive." He would support the living wage as a condition for tax abatements.
BRETT LOGAN
Brett Logan is a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Kansas. He said he did not think the
city should have changed the number of unrelated people who can live together when it passed the housing ordinance. He said the city should focus on
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enforcing the laws it already had. He would support landlord registration if it applied to all landlords.
He would support the integration of KU on Wheels and Lawrence Transit System. He would wait for the Kansas Department of Transportation to recommend a course of action for the South Lawrence Trafficwav.
He would support tax abatements sparingly and might propose abatements for some local businesses. He would not support a living wage ordinance.
SCOTT BAILEY
Scott Bailey is a health care executive with the Kansas Foundation for Medical Care in Topeka.
He supports the current number of unrelated people in the new housing ordinance and said the commission should focus on enforcing the ordinance. He would support landlord registration and the inspection of single family homes and, eventually, all homes.
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He would support tax abatements for new businesses in rare circumstances. He has proposed that all tax abatements should be passed by four out of five of the city commissioners. He said tax abatements should be in the overwhelming interest of the whole community. He would not support a living wage ordinance.
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He would support combining KU on Wheels and Lawrence Transit System. He would support completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway south of the Wakarusa River.
Voters will go to the polls tomorrow to vote in the first round of Lawrence City Commission elections.
Interest in local government is so great this election year that twelve Lawrence residents are running to fill three open spots on the commission. Primaries are needed to whittle the twelve candidates down to six who will be on the ballot for the final election in April.
Two University of Kansas students are vying for a space on the commission. Jennifer Chaffee and Brett Logan both said that they felt compelled to become formally involved in local government because they felt the commission was not sensitive to issues that affected students.
But other candidates have also taken up advocacy for students as part of their platforms.
Jimmy Lee Bricker is a KU graduate who said that students and the young adult population had suffered from policies created by commissioners whose interests didn't take into account needs of the
First round of elections for city commissioners to whittle 12 hopefuls to six for April election
vouger sector of the community.
younger sector of the community. Some candidates have said that student issues were the same as community issues because one quarter of the Lawrence population is students and the University was vital to the economy and cultural diversity of the city.
Candidates have addressed a long list of issues at candidate forums sponsored by neighborhood associations, voters' leagues and Student Senate.
hoods. All three said they felt that more revision was needed to make the ordinances work for the community, but that a three-person limit was a fair compromise between the former limit of four people and the proposed limit of two people.
Critics of the recently-passed housing ordinance have made the cost and availability of housing an issue in the elections.
All three incumbent candidates, Erv Hodges, David Dunfield and Marty Kennedy, voted for the threeperson limit on unrelated people allowed to live together in a residence in single family neighbor-
Candidates also have addressed the future of economic growth and the physical growth of the city.
Commissioner Hodges said he supported economic growth that was responsible and brought the city jobs and industry.
Bricker said that the city needed to stop housing and industry developments growing on the western edge of Lawrence.
Other candidates disagree.
"Stop growth entirely," he said. Other issues facing the commission candidates are tax abatements, public transportation, school funding and preservation of neighborhood schools, restoration of neighborhood in the city center, the completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway and upgrading city services such as waste management to deal efficiently with a growing population.
"Stop growth entirely." he said.
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MARK LEHMANN
Mark Lehmann is the owner of Old Home Depot and a rental property owner.
he does not want a definition of family to be part of the housing ordinances and he said enforcement of existing codes
Lehmann
would be more effective than the new ordinance. He would support housing inspections of landlords' properties that have had problems, but would not
support general inspections.
support general inspections. He would support an integrated public bus system and completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway south of the Wakarusa River. He wants a community plan to be presented to the Kansas Department of Transportation.
Tax abatements should be used primarily to support local businesses and on rare occasions should be a tool to attract new businesses, he said.
SUE HACK
Sue Hack is a ninth grade civics teacher at Southwest Junior High School.
She supports the limit of three unrelated people as a compromise. As a rental prop.
erty owner, she supports a registration policy. She said she thought that it would be difficult to enforce the number of unrelated people living together and
She would support integration of the two transit systems as the system develops. She would favor integration of the South Lawrence Trafficway south of the Wakarusa River and would like to improve 31st Street.
that the policy should be explored further.
Hack
She would support tax abate-
ments and thinks the city's task force should look at a tax abatement policy as a good step toward creating a comprehensive policy.
CRAIG CAMPBELL
ll is a commercial lender with Firstar Bank, 900
Campbell
the real work is enforcing existing ordinances that deal with noise and trash.
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He does not support changing the number of unrelated people that can live together. He said that
He supports combining KU on Wheels and Lawrence Transit System and would like it to run later. He would support a task force of community groups to decide the best route for the South Lawrence Trafficway.
He would support tax abatements for big companies in rare instances and would prefer to offer incentives to local businesses. He would not support a living wage ordinance.
ERV HODGES
Erv Hodges is running for reelection to the commission. He is a retired businessman and Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Marine Corps.
He voted to reduce the number of unrelated people living together from four to three and supports the housing ordinances as a way to revitalize neighborhoods.
Hodges
he supports registration and inspection of homes zoned for single families and may support expanding that to other neighborhoods.
He would support an integrated transportation system. He would support completing the South Lawrence Trafficway by expanding 31st Street.
He thinks tax abatements are a necessary part of remaining competitive and bringing jobs to Lawrence. He does not support a living wage ordinance.
MARTY KENNEDY
Marty Kennedy is running for re-election to the commission. He is general manager and co-owner of Kennedy Glass Inc.
Kennedy
He voted to reduce the number of unrelated people living together from four to three. He would support inspections of new construction. He would
port the integration of KU on Wheels and Lawrence Transit Systems. He supports the completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
He wants the tax abatement policy to be examined to make sure Lawrence attracts responsible businesses with the policy.
JIMMY LEE BRICKER
Jimmy Lee Bricker is a KU graduate who works as a maintenance person at Cedarwood Apartments.
He does not support the three
Bricker
the housing ordinance because he said it didn't solve the real problem: current ordinances were not enforced. He would support landlord
registration as a tool for holding landlords accountable.
He would support the integration of KU on Wheels and Lawrence Transit Systems.
He said he thought in-depth coverage of commission and planning meetings should be shown on television and the Internet to make city decisions more accessible.
He wants to halt city expansion.
ADAM MANSFIELD
Adam Mansfield manages Louise's Downtown, 1009
Massachusetts St., and attended KU.
Mansfield
He does not support the new housing ordinance and said the ordinance was the wrong way to solve housing
problems in neighborhoods. He said the new ordinances are exclusive and the city should have focused on enforcing the existing ordinances. He opposes defining family in a city ordinance.
He supports integrated bus transportation and extended bike lanes. He thinks transportation should extend beyond Lawrence and proposes a rail link connecting Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City.
He wants the city to create a clear policy on tax abatements and thinks the whole community should vote when awarding a tax abatement. He also calls for the Planning Commission to be elected, instead of appointed by city commissioners.
KEVIN POLIAN
Kevin Polian owns an information technology company, a catering business and a head-
Polian
hunting company that places students in technical jobs.
He opposes the housing ordinance and said he would do everything in his power to reverse the decision.
against it, Pollen said. He said the ordinance was geared toward students and the city could solve the problem by enforcing existing ordinances. He supports combining the University and Lawrence bus systems and running buses later at night, especially in the downtown area.
"I'm one thousand percent against it." Polian said.
He would support tax abatements only for businesses that pay competitive wages.
JENNIFER CHAFFEE
Jennifer Chaffee is a KU student majoring in political science.
She said she opposed the housing ordinance's three-person limit on unrelated people. She said the commission had stepped beyond the authority of government.
"I think that's an infringement of individual rights," Chaffee said.
Chaffee
Instead, Chaffee said the city should work to enforce existing ordinances. She supports an expansion of bike lanes throughout the city. #Bike lanes and
"Bike lanes and
racks need to be considered a natural part of traffic," she said.
She does not support tax abatements because she said she had seen no evidence that tax abatements were effective in bringing businesses to Lawrence that will help the city in the long run.
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