Archive for Monday, May 19, 2008
City Commission agenda: Oread Inn to seek changes to plan
May 19, 2008
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Agenda highlights • 6:35 p.m. Tuesday • City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets • Sunflower Broadband Channel 25 • Meeting documents online at www.lawrenceks.org
Oread Inn to seek changes to plan
Bottom line
City commissioners are being asked to give approval to the closing of a road and some minor changes to construction plans for The Oread Inn, a seven-story hotel near 12th and Indiana streets.
Background
Developers are presenting a new plan that would close Indiana Street from 11th Street to 12th Street for much of the summer. The closure is needed, developers said, to give construction crews the necessary room to safely build an underground parking garage. The developers also are asking to vacate three feet of right of way for Indiana Street.
The vacation would allow the entire hotel to be shifted three feet farther to the west. The shift also is needed to accommodate the construction of the underground parking garage.
Other business
Recognition
• Proclaim the week of May 18-24 as Public Works Week.
Consent agenda
• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from May 6.
• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions.
• Approve all claims. The list of approved claims will be posted to the agenda the day after the City Commission meeting.
• Approve appointments as recommended by the mayor.
• Approve city/county appointments to the Steering Committee for the planned improvements of 31st Street, from Haskell Avenue to O’Connell Road.
• Bid and purchase items:
a.) Award City Bid No. B08043, Project No. PW0808, 2008 Overlay Program, Phase 1 to LRM Industries, Inc., in the amount of $491,995.60.
b.) Set bid date of June 3 for City Bid No. B08050, Project No. PW0809, 2008 Overlay Program, Phase 2, and Project No. 25-GI4-807(C), 18th and Louisiana Street, Raised Crosswalk (two projects, one contract). Location Map — Phase II.
• Adopt the following ordinance(s) on first reading:
a.) Ordinance No. 8268, for Landmark Designation, L-08-01-07, placing the structure located at 805 Ohio Street on the Lawrence Register of Historic Places .
b.) Ordinance No. 8269, for Landmark Designation, L-09-02-07, placing the structure located at 934 W. 21st St. on the Lawrence Register of Historic Places.
c.) Ordinance No. 8271, rezoning approximately .39 acres (Z-02-06-08) from RM-12 D (Multi-Dwelling Residential) to RS-7 (Single-Dwelling Residential). The property is located at 1309-11 W. Eighth Street, and a portion of 820-22 Canterbury Lane. (PC Item 7; approved 6-0 on 4/23/08)
d.) Ordinance No. 8275 establishing STOP signs at the four traffic booth entrances on the KU campus.
e.) Ordinance No. 8276, authorizing the possession and consumption of alcoholic liquor at the Lawrence Municipal Airport on Wednesday, June 11, 2008, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Mixer event hosted by the Airport Advisory Board.
• Adopt the following ordinance(s) on second and final reading:
a.) Ordinance No. 8270, rezoning approximately 140 acres for Bauer Brook Estates (Z-03-08-08) from A-1 (Suburban Home Residential) to RS-40 (Single-Dwelling Residential). The property is located at the southeast corner of Folks and Peterson Roads. (PC Item 4; approved 7-0 on 4/21/08)
b.) Joint City Ordinance No. 8272/County Resolution No. ____, amending Horizon 2020 to ensure proper comprehensive plan language is in place for a proposed mixed use district in the City of Lawrence Land Development Code.
c.) Ordinance No. 8273, establishing the maximum assessments for improvements at the intersection of Sixth Street and Congressional Drive.
• Approve request by Steve Block, manager of Wakarusa 15 Associates LLC (the property owner of Lot 3A of Alvamar Northwest No. 3), for a variance from 19-214A of the code which states that each lot shall have direct access to the City sanitary sewer main in City public right of way or City public utility easement. Such access shall not cross property ownership lines unless the access is in adjacent City public right of way or adjacent City public utility easement.
• Receive city manager’s report.
Regular agenda
• Receive request from Timothy Homburg, architect, NSPJ Architects, architects for the construction of The Oread Inn, requesting the vacation of a portion of the right-of-way on the east side of Indiana Street. Consider proposal to close Indiana Street adjacent to the Oread Inn project construction.
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19 May 2008 at 8:03 a.m.
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just_another_bozo_on_this_bus (Anonymous) says…
The rubber stamp goes into action again.
19 May 2008 at 8:59 a.m.
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KU_Dude (Anonymous) says…
Cool,
Have you ever designed a building that needed changes during construction?
This seems pretty typical to me. I've never known of any project that was built that didn't need any modifications during construction.
Thanks,
KU_Dude
19 May 2008 at 9:10 a.m.
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just_another_bozo_on_this_bus (Anonymous) says…
This isn't just a minor change— they want to encroach 3 feet closer to Indiana St. with a building that is already going overwhelm everything around it. They fully intended to build this 3 feet further west from the beginning, but like everything on this project, they approached it with incremental additional requests because that makes it easier for this city commission to rubberstamp it.
19 May 2008 at 9:24 a.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
BTW, that oreadinn website cool keeps plugging is part of a local stinking pit of a 'forum'.
If you have a burning desire to see all of cool's posts from LJW repeated on another site, check it out. Using proxify dot com would be a good idea.
19 May 2008 at 9:41 a.m.
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inatux (Anonymous) says…
I can't wait until the Oread Inn builders sue the crap out of user “cool” for cybersquatting the oreadinn.com web site name to redirect to Marion's crappy web site.
19 May 2008 at 10:25 a.m.
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Marty_McFly (Anonymous) says…
Is it just me or does Cool keep posting the same things?
19 May 2008 at 10:57 a.m.
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Bowhunter99 (Anonymous) says…
Cool and Merrill both narrow minded ideas and vocabulary… all they do is post/repost/post and refreaking post the same nonsense over and over.
19 May 2008 at 11:58 a.m.
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hipper_than_hip (Anonymous) says…
In a response to what is spot zoning:
The city and the county allowed developers to leapfrog current boundaries to annex agricultural land 2.5 miles outside the city limits for industrial use, which is inconsistent with current zoning; why should anything different take place in the city?
19 May 2008 at 1:07 p.m.
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Jayhawker1 (Anonymous) says…
Sven/Cool can't make changes to a project once he's drawn it…crayon doesn't erase.
And really, how much can you change a bird house anyway….right sven?
19 May 2008 at 1:52 p.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
cool's still plugging that misleading link to the local stinking pit of a 'forum'.
19 May 2008 at 2:06 p.m.
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inatux (Anonymous) says…
The user cool sent the following message to you via LJWorld.com:
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sorry tux / but the domain names that i have were registered and 'active' according to ICANN rules….thi sis not squatting - they are registered and active.
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OK, and you purchased them after all this came into play. So, if they come to you and say “We'd like to purchase OreadInn.com,” then you can't sell them for a penny over what you paid for them, otherwise, it's squatting.
A first-year communication law student would have a field day with this.
Oh, and if you send me an e-mail through LJWorld.com, please don't think it's private.
19 May 2008 at 2:16 p.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
For the third time today, stop emailing me, cool.
19 May 2008 at 2:16 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
inatux (Anonymous) says…
I can't wait until the Oread Inn builders sue the crap out of user “cool” for cybersquatting the oreadinn.com web site name to redirect to Marion's crappy web site.”
Marion writes:
I host oreadinn.com as a sub-forum.
The domain is held and used in complete compliance with ICAAN regulations and has been for some time.
As an ISP, I am subject to the laws of the state, nation or municipality wherein the servers are physically located.
An airline ticket will cost you several grand if you want to go there to begin a legal action.
Any time you or the buddies for whom you are shilling feel froggy, jump on!
19 May 2008 at 2:22 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Inatux:
You don't know very much about domain names, do you?
19 May 2008 at 2:32 p.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
snap writes:
outingbulkerbiz/nick danger/clark kent/springlilcobra/ & so on & so forth has made an appearance.
Still
having
a
wonderful
internet
life
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19 May 2008 at 2:34 p.m.
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inatux (Anonymous) says…
Marion,
Do you honestly think anyone where thinks you and “cool” are not the same person?
19 May 2008 at 2:37 p.m.
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inatux (Anonymous) says…
“You don't know very much about domain names, do you?”
I know what a good lawyer can get. :)
19 May 2008 at 2:40 p.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
cool, you're whizzing in the wind by continuing to email me. You'll wear you little fingers right down to nubs & then you'll have to hold a pencil between your toes to key in the drivel you post here.
19 May 2008 at 2:42 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
inatux (Anonymous) says…
“You don't know very much about domain names, do you?”
I know what a good lawyer can get. :)”
Marion writes:
Where did you find a “good” lawyer?
By the way, did you hear the one about…………..?
19 May 2008 at 2:50 p.m.
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hipper_than_hip (Anonymous) says…
once again cool, the neighborhood said time and time again that annexation of rural property 2.5 miles outside the city limits is leapfrog annexation, but the planning commission, and the city commission, and the county commission all ignored the voices of the neighborhood.
Don't feel slighted that the various commissions don't listen to you: they don't listen to anyone except their campaign donors.
19 May 2008 at 3:27 p.m.
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Jayhawker1 (Anonymous) says…
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19 May 2008 at 3:28 p.m.
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Jayhawker1 (Anonymous) says…
Sue Hack had ENOUGH of your ignorance! I like her even more!
19 May 2008 at 3:37 p.m.
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Jayhawker1 (Anonymous) says…
I'm surprised she could read the name on your card… how do you write your whole name out in crayon on that little piece of paper?
Unlike you, she has class.
19 May 2008 at 3:53 p.m.
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KU_Dude (Anonymous) says…
You're really defensive today Cool.
It looks like Its_getting_warmer & jayhawker1 really struck a nerve.
What are you hiding?
19 May 2008 at 4:02 p.m.
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Jayhawker1 (Anonymous) says…
I'm talking about Nancy Longhurst sven…read before you type…if you can.
19 May 2008 at 4:03 p.m.
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Jayhawker1 (Anonymous) says…
He's NOT hiding his ignorance! That's for sure!
19 May 2008 at 4:39 p.m.
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hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…
Worried about 3 feet to the west. Quite frankly, the city should remove all parking on Indiana from 9th street to the top of the hill where the Oread Apts aka Plank Flats are. Cool is worried about spot zoning. The whole of Oread neighborhood should be bulldozed. It is 40 years in the coming. As for Barry Newton, what is this guy smoking? Another Univ of Ks teat feedeer . Why doesn't Newton get a financier and build something of his own.His poor grad students have been hoodwinked into a political foray.
The smell of diesel fuel and the sound of bulldozers and earth movers is music to the ears at the top of the old whored out Oread Neighborhood. No more fake sweet perfume on the prostitute which has been allowed to exist for over a quarter of a century. Time to start at the top and bulldoze downhill. Wonder if cool and the univ members who complain so much about the hotel are going to complain about retired faculty housing?
19 May 2008 at 6:07 p.m.
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classclown (Anonymous) says…
The hotel needs to be another ten stories taller. Hide some of that ugliness to the west of it.
19 May 2008 at 6:08 p.m.
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classclown (Anonymous) says…
The entire block needs to be bulldozed and a strip mall put in there alongside the hotel.
19 May 2008 at 6:10 p.m.
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classclown (Anonymous) says…
HRC needs to be disbanded. Create a progress committee in it's place.
19 May 2008 at 6:34 p.m.
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hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…
classclown, retired faculty apartments and retail in the works, it's getting warmer than you think and the heat is on. Progress committe you say? Don't put any neighborhood members on the progress committee . Stonewall Jackson may as well be leading it if you do. Diesel fuel, ah, the smell of shale, clay and the sounds of dump trucks beat the smells of the neighborhood now which is stale beer and bad breath from the Oread members while they sit around and whine about the demise of the old whore.
Classclown, you may be the clown, but the jugglers are yet to come. This time they may really have their act together and beat anything that Cirque So Lei can put together.
Worried about 3 feet to the west. Downtown buildings are built right agains the sidewalks. So what the bigga deal? 10 stories for sure. Build a hotel, not a cheap rear end motel . Build it and they will come. Pie in the sky, but make this hotel a pie unlike anyting Pacem could have ever baked.
19 May 2008 at 9:31 p.m.
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not_dolph (Anonymous) says…
Nice to see you around here today IGW. I thought COOL was going to sue you today…isn't this Monday?
20 May 2008 at 9:04 a.m.
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bangaranggerg (Anonymous) says…
Ordinance No. 8273, you suck. Three years they fight the Wal Mart and they'll mess up my neighborhood and everyday commute in 5 minutes, no thought.
20 May 2008 at 9:17 a.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
The website cool is plugging is part of a certain odious local 'forum' where you can see examples of juvenile personal attacks. If that's what you're all about, I'd recommend going through proxify dot com if you want to check it out.
BTW, cool, do not keep emailing me.
20 May 2008 at 9:31 a.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
For consideration:
Midol, it's not just for breakfast anymore. Why don't you step away from the keyboard and pop one?
20 May 2008 at 11:42 a.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
“What are compulsions?
Obsessive thoughts make people who have OCD feel nervous and afraid. They try to get rid of these feelings by performing certain behaviors according to “rules” that they make up for themselves. These behaviors are called compulsions. (Compulsive behaviors are sometimes also called rituals.) For example, a person who has OCD may have obsessive thoughts about germs. Because of these thoughts, the person may wash his or her hands repeatedly after using a public toilet. The person may make repetitive posts on any story involving the Oread Inn. Performing these behaviors usually only makes the nervous feelings go away for a short time. When the fear and nervousness return, the person who has OCD repeats the routine all over again.”
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/…
20 May 2008 at 12:49 p.m.
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Jayhawker1 (Anonymous) says…
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20 May 2008 at 2:49 p.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
cool, you're reposting your own posts from earlier in this thread?
Take a break before your head explodes.
20 May 2008 at 2:55 p.m.
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dirkleisure (Anonymous) says…
What if they put a giant tornado on top of the hotel? Then it would be a giant tourist attraction.
http://www.kansastornadolandmark.com/Sit…
20 May 2008 at 4:01 p.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
Or a giant tomato?
20 May 2008 at 11:04 p.m.
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not_dolph (Anonymous) says…
Snap -
Your 5/20/08, 11:42 am post is an all time classic! Thanks for keepin' it real! And, thanks for still enjoying your internet life…or whatever it is you say.
Cool has gone over the edge this time - way over.
21 May 2008 at 12:31 a.m.
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not_dolph (Anonymous) says…
cool - for all you know, I am Dolph. You will also note that LJW didn't boot warmer off.
Hopefully when their servers become overloaded from your drivel, they'll boot you off - for good!