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Wednesday, November 2, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Commission will receive request for Chelsea bonds
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
Last-minute surprises with the riverfront project have plagued the Lawrence City Commission and the project's developers for the last few months.
developers for the last months.
John Lungstrum, a lawyer representing the East Coast-based Chelsea Group, said last night that financial complications had threatened the project.
"It looked like this project might be a dead duck." Lunestrum said.
Lungstrum said.
Lungstrum went before the commission last night to request industrial revenue bonds. The commissioners voted unanimously to receive Chelsea's request for the bonds and set a 7:30 p.m. public hearing at next week's meeting.
Lungstrum said that the bonds would stabilize the property tax blow that the developers were predicting. He speculated that Chelsea would pay $120,000 a year in property taxes.
"The costs are higher than it appeared they would be," Lungstrum said.
Buford Watson, city manager, said that the bonds would carry the regular market rate and would be subject to regular taxes.
Mayer Bob Schumm said that it looked like the project would go over the $21 million mark.
Commissioner Dennis Constance said that although he
was worried about oversights, he thought that the increased cost of the project would ultimately testify for itself.
"Let's let this prove itself," Constance said. "I would like this project to proceed. Frankly, I think this will be wildly successful."
my successful.
Mike Vieux, president of the Downtown Lawrence Association and commissioners that the association was supportive of the riverfront retail shopping center that is scheduled to be completed within the year.
Heading from a prepared letter, Vieux said that the project would:
physically extend the downtown area bring new shoppers to Lawrence.
project wollur
physically extend the downtown area.
- renew a brighted area.
- expand the local tax base.
- expand the local tax base increase jobs for local residents.
- encourage entrepreneurship with the goals of the Lawrence Comprehensive Business Downtown expansion.
Plan, which provokes downward Schumm said that he went last week to a New Jersey shopping center that Chelsea developed and that the response from shoppers was good.
"The downtown there has just filled up." Schumm said.
"Rents have increased because of the demand for property."
If approved, the industrial revenue bonds will close on Dec. 1.
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"It would stop people from using their own property, and it was an attack on private property rights," Allen said.
Private property owners of historic buildings or sites were a little restless after city commissioners debated a historic landmark ordinance last night.
Mayor Bob Schumm requested that the commission address details of the ordinance and scheduled a vote for Nov. 15.
would probably approve them."
"This isn't to say that an owner couldn't change the structure at all," he said. "If changes were compatible to the structure's present state, both commissions
the ordinance requires that any changes to a historic structure or district be regulated by both the city commission and the City Commission.
A 15-member task force appointed by the City Commission last year developed the ordinance Historic Resources Commission.
Allen said that problems could arise if property owners were against participating in the historic program. He suggested that the task force create an ordinance that would preserve historic property but that wouldn't destroy people's rights to private property.
Commissioner Sandy Praeger said that the ordinance should involve the Douglas County Planning Commission. The ordinance must enable the planning commission to review changes in historic sites and make recommendations to the city commission.
Arly Allen, task force member, said that the focus of the ordinance was to preserve historic properties and establish a historic structure was unclear.
"If there is an ordinance, there should be a definition of what it is you want to protect," Allen said.
Ron Schneider, chairman of the task force, said that once designated a highly significant structure, a historic site was protected from any dramatic changes the owner might make. This would be with or without the owner's consent.
Allen, owner of Allen Press, is suing the city for refusing to grant him a demolition permit. Allen wants to demolish a church located on his property, which is within 500 feet of the wings of county churches, a historic structure. However, the state controls changes to property within that distance of a historic structure.
Schneider said that both commissions had a check list of what was to be considered historical, ranging from the age to the style of structure.
New hearing set for suspect in boy's death
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Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said that his motion to file the superceding complaint would also be heard Nov. 10. He said the new complaint would add aggravatd
The second competency hearing for John William in the killing of a 9-year-old Lawrence boy will be Nov. 10, and the state is seeking permission to file a new complaint against him.
William was returned to Lawrence last week from the Larned State Hospital, where he was sent in August after being found incompetent to stand trial in the death of Richard D. Settlemyre. The child's body was found in the Kansas River
on July 14, and William was charged with murder the next dav
An order filed in Douglas County District Court last week said that the chief medical officer at the hospital ruled that William had attained competency. The first psychiatric examination of the defendant concluded that he was able to understand the nature and purpose of proceedings against him but that he was not competent to assist in his defense.
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