Friday, February 6, 2009
Students living in the Oread neighborhood, commonly referred to as the student ghetto, can discuss problems they’d like addressed in the first new neighborhood plan since 1979 at a public meeting Monday. Zoning and development issues are on the meeting’s agenda as well.
The meeting will take place at Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Michelle Leininger, area/neighborhood planner, said the event is open to everyone and will address any concern.
“Our main goal is to brainstorm and prioritize the strengths, weaknesses, issues and opportunities of the neighborhood,” Leininger said.
Kraig Stoll, Mulvane junior, lives in the Oread neighborhood. Stoll’s main concern was street conditions.
“It’s horrible, this place tears your car up,” Stoll said.
Alexandra Norton, Chicago senior, said the broken, uneven sidewalks combined with and poor lighting created a dangerous situation.
“I see so many girls eat it,” Norton said.
Norton doesn’t have any noise complaints. She said she expected to hear rowdy noises and deal with drunken people because it’s a student neighborhood.
Dan Hamilton, Baldwin City senior, doesn’t live in the area, but said he had been visiting Lawrence since he was young.
“We have always called this the ghetto,” Dan Hamilton, Baldwin City senior, said.
Hamilton said parking was sometimes troublesome, especially on streets that don’t have alleys, such as Ohio Street.
Jennifer Stanton, Wichita senior, said students living in the area knew what they were getting into when they moved into the student ghetto.
She found some of its problems endearing.
“It makes it feel more like a college atmosphere,” Stanton said.
Stanton said she thought students in the area didn’t care much about how well the neighborhood was maintained because most only lived there for a short period of time.
Norton agreed with Stanton and said the neighborhood was great for students because it was close to campus and had a large student population.
The Oread neighborhood is east of campus and ends at Massachusetts Street. Its outer boundaries lie between Ninth and 17th streets.
The green portion of the map signifies original Oread neighborhood boundaries. The blue outline signifies proposed new Oread neighborhood boundaries. Bronze Jayhawks on the map signify apartment complexes that will remain in the Oread neighborhood after boundary changes, become part of the Oread neighborhood after boundary changes or leave the Oread neighborhood association after boundary changes.
Map by Haley Jones
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Plan for student ghetto topic of meeting
Expected to find drunks because they are students! Come on now! Let us not judge people by the group they belong to, that is called prejudice. True they only live there for a short period of time so it may, or may not, be all that important to the renters. But, from the perspective of Lawrence as a whole does it not bring the city down a notch to have a neighborhood that is clearly deteriorating?
Plan for student ghetto topic of meeting
Very random choices for selections on the map...
And nothing in the story about the neighborhood boundaries being redrawn? What's happening there? Instead, let's just talk to random students with random complaints who probably won't go to the meeting.
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