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Tuesday, April 3; 1990 / University Daily Kansan
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Ordinance procedure still not set
The city noise ordinance, which has been in effect since Feb. 7, has resulted in three citations and numerous warnings but no set procedure for enforcing the ordinance.
By Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said the procedure of cliting someone for a noise violation was a police officer's decision.
"The problem is that the people who violate the noise ordinance have a very short memory," Mulvenon said.
When police receive a noise complaint, they first ask the persons involved to turn the noise down, he said. If officers must return because of an officer's complaint than if the officers' decision whether to issue a citation.
"It depends on the type of noise, how long the noise has been going on, how loud the noise is and the cooperation of the person involved," Mulvenon said.
The maximum penalty for a noise violation is $500 or six months in jail, or both
When the noise violation is at a residence, the owner or tenant is cited, he said. If the violation occurs at a fraternity house, the house president or the persons having the party are cited. Violations occurring in bars result in the owner or manager being cited.
"We had a four-house function, and there were noise complaints," said Stephen Veluz, Acacia president. "At 2 a.m. they came back and asked us to stop the party because it was too loud and too late. They were very understanding."
Acacia fraternity, 1100 Indiana St., was warned twice but not cited Friday night for violation of the noise ordinance.
Mandi Greene, El Dorado sophomore, did not get two warnings in early March at her Lawrence residence. On the second visit by Lawrence police officers, she was cited
Greene said the police returned a second time and cited her because her neighbors wanted to file a complaint.
B. Jake White, student body president, said he was under the assumption that a warning would be given, even though it was not stated in the noise ordinance.
"We will monitor this and see what happens," said White.
Gretchen Pippenger/KANSAN
Room with a view
From left to right, Bob Kirch, Jerry Stark and Vince Martin, of Trio Masonry Inc. of Blue Springs, Mo., lay concrete blocks for a window at the Geological Core Library on West Campus. Work on the building began in December and is scheduled to be completed June 1.
Studies say unemployment will rise despite recent decline in jobless rate
by Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
Unemployment fell in Lawrence, Douglas County and Kansas during February, but long-range forecasts show the jobless rate will increase in 2019.
Lawrence showed a decrease in unemployment from 3.7 percent in February 1989 to 3.4 percent in February 1990, said Bill Layes, chief of labor market statistics in the Human Department of Human Resea
Lawrence unemployment fell 0.1 percent in February from January's rate of 3.5 percent.
Bill Martin, Chamber of Commerce director of economic development, said growth in retail and manufacturing jobs accounted for Lawrence's lower unemployment rate.
The construction of the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza Factory Outlet Center and expansion of the East Hills Business Park on Kansas Highway 10
east of Lawrence helped account for
increased employment, he said.
However, Martin said a national economic slump would affect Lawrence's economic health because the manufacturers who sell outside the state.
Layes said the statewide forecast for 1990 indicated a higher unemployment rate of 4.8 percent, compared to the 1989 rate of 4 percent.
"We're going to see a slightly reduced pace of activity in 1990, which should account for most of the
Most increases will come in service jobs and construction on highways in May and June."
Kansas' unemployment rate declined from 4.4 percent to 4.1 percent in February, according to a report of Human Resources report.
Norman Clifford, research associate at the University of Kansas Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, said that his analysis
indicated somewhat lower Kansas unemployment rate for 1990 but that his figures were not as up-to-date as the department of Human Resources.
"From what our numbers tell us, we are anticipating a 4.5 percent unemployment rate in 1990. Our figure for 1980 was 4.3 percent," he said.
Cliffard said that the department's reported jobless rate decrease of 0.9 was significant but that its impact on the full year's rates might be limited.
"You have to look at seasonal components," he said. "If annual events cause the labor force to grow, you'll see an unemployment decrease that may not be long-term."
The institute runs a computer model of the state's economy based in part on national economic trends, Clifford said. The model's prediction of increased unemployment is influenced by an anticipated slow-down in the national economy.
Shopkeepers' taxes increase 2,000 percent
Special to the Kansan
By Karen Park
Shopkeepers at Orchards Corners shopping center, 15th Street and Kasal Dow, say payments they are making to cover their landlord's property taxes have increased more than 2,000 percent this year.
The tenants said reappraisal and reclassification caused the increase in taxes.
Reappraisal, which is the reassessment of land values to 1989 standards, was completed in January 1989. Reclassification is the process of reclassifying properties according to using improvements made on the land.
"The taxes get dumped on him, he dumps onto us, but I can't dump on my customers," said Dan Blomgren, co-owner of Blomgren-Johnson Retail Liquors, regarding his landlord.
Orchards Corners is a two-year-old shopping center approximately two miles from the University of Kansas campus and consists of 17 small
businesses that serve the surrounding developing community of west Lawrence.
Some shopowners accuse the landlord, Landon and Associates, of misleading them about property taxes when they signed leases in the fall of 1988.
Lee Landon, managing general partner of Landon and Associates of Overland Park, said, "That's a lie. If I knew that at any time it was going to be that high, they would have been the first to know. Those people are just whining."
Donna McCormick, a real estate appraiser for the Douglas County Appraiser's Office, that both Landon and the businessmen could have called the appraiser's office in March 1989 and that a staff member could have given them an approximate property tax figure.
Linda Kroeger, owner of Kroeger's Country Store, said that when she signed a lease with Landon in November 1888, she was paying $18.23 a month to cover her store*
Six other owners at the center also said their taxes went up approximately 2,000 percent.
share of the center's property taxes.
As of January 1990, Kroeger said her share of the taxes had increased 2,115 percent to $385.70 a month.
"We are small businessmen. We can't afford to hire a lawyer or tax consultant to figure out our taxes," said Thelma Taylor, owner of Calico Barn. "We trusted him. I shook his hand."
Each month, the shopkeepers pay Landon their shares of the property tax bill in addition to their base rent payments. Landon receives a tax bill from the county at the end of the year.
The tenants said that they might have to look for some other place to rent unless Landon lowers the rent or the shopping center's property taxes are decreased.
Landon said he was not going to decrease the rent because he had bills to pay.
n to pay Landon and Associates started
building the center in the spring of 1988. The businesses started moving into the part of the center facing Kasold Drive in August 1988.
Bloomgren and other tenants said that in addition to the increased property taxes in 1980, Landon told him and the other tenants in January 1990 that they would have to pay approximately $4,000 each in back taxes for 1989.
"If he had told me how much it was going to be, I wouldn't have signed," Blomgren said.
Other tenants agreed with Blom-gren.
Landon is appealing the higher property tax bill. He will be meeting with a county appeals board April 9.
The tenants are hoping they can work with Landon on reducing rent if taxes are not decreased.
"What is it going to look like empty?" Jannah Laing, owner of Ultimate Exercise said, referring to the shopping center. "We're going to have to help each other out."