Letters to the Editor
Moving problem
October 28, 2009
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To the editor:
The Lawrence City Commission will consider the relocation of Lawrence’s homeless shelter to the former Don’s Steak House on East 23rd Street sometime in early November. This particular site is on busy Kansas Highway 10 and is the central focal point of the major entry to the city of Lawrence, also called the “Smart Corridor.”
As I mentioned in a previous letter, I don’t think this is too smart.
Loring Henderson, director of the homeless shelter, states that the homeless population is growing. He’s absolutely right. With unemployment reaching 10 percent or more, who could disagree? Henderson is a good man. However, he might be somewhat misguided about trying to solve a major problem that currently exists downtown by moving it east and trying to hide it with fences, landscaping and lighting.
Shelter leaders have stated they settled on the 23rd Street location because it does not have any homes that directly abut the property — not now, anyway. There are houses coming, development is coming.
The city is currently on a mission to remove the homeless from downtown. Ain’t going to happen. They know where the “unsuspecting givers” are. Ban them to New Hampshire or Vermont streets. Ain’t gonna happen. Not enough cops. If the City Commission approves the relocation to East 23rd Street, the only reason is that it’s eight blocks away from the Douglas County Jail. That would make it easier for law enforcement to deal with previously identified problems at 10th and Kentucky. Law and order? Think about it.
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28 October 2009
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eastsidepride (Anonymous) says…
Development was coming!!! If the LCS moves in it will stop! No housing near the proposed site???? For anyone who says that PLEASE go stand in the parking lot of Dons and tell me their is no housing near the site. In both directions their is housing!!! AND Several busuiness!!! Give me a break!!!!Taking downtowns problems and dumping them on East Lawrence. Welcome to Lawrence everybody Nice to see ya, and wave good-bye as they drive on thru to spend their money any where but East Lawrence! Thank You Comissioners. East Lawrence derserves better! If you want to bring something to East Lawrence how about something postive! A library, a youth facility, a grocery store, or new business!!! No you want to give us the homeless issues that Lawrence has had for years…slowing any progress that might have been heading our way.
28 October 2009
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honeychild (Mel Briscoe) says…
hmm…. doesn't seem like a good spot really… i'm thinking about increased foot traffic right there by K-10. not an especially safe place for something like that.
i can't believe you guys having such a hard time finding a location for your homeless shelter! everyone acts as if it were a leper colony or something.
28 October 2009
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swan_diver (Anonymous) says…
The new shelter should obviously be placed next to the golf course at Alvamar — so the clientele on the links can enjoy the fruits of a nation in decline, thanks to the selfishness and greed of American business interests, the local representatives of which are the biggest patrons of the fairway.
Or is that golf course closed — or closing, like the nation itself?