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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Calibri">5. How does this excessive
growth affect our property taxes? They continue to increase,
and we now depend on renewing ten-year sales taxes to fund
infrastructure improvements, as well. (Question 2 on the
ballot last month.)</font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/2017 11:10 AM, Carol Bowen via
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Kirk, thank you for this information. I listened to some of the
Steering Committee meeting.
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<div>1. I got the impression that growth is just more housing. </div>
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<div>2. Their discussion did not have a vision of what we want
to be. The default is we will be a bedroom community. </div>
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<div>3. The committee is not understanding the needs of a
bedroom community versus the needs of an independent
community. </div>
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<div>4. I did not hear a discussion of capacity of existing
infrastructure. The lack of awareness hurts the existing
neighborhoods and streets </div>
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<div>Am I missing something?<br>
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Is the steering committee still taking comments? </div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">~ Carol's phone</div>
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On Dec 16, 2017, at 10:01 AM, Kirk McClure via
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<p class="MsoNormal">LAN Members –</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see the attached analysis
that I prepared addressing the long-term overbuilding
in housing.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The real estate industry is prone
to overbuilding. This is true in all sectors,
residential, retail, office, industrial,
hospitality, etc. This is true nationwide and in
Lawrence. The industry needs the public sector to
regulate the pace of development. Too much
development is bad; overbuilt markets hurt existing
space and older neighborhoods. Too little
development inhibits healthy turnover and the
correct pricing of space. The goal should be
managed growth, which means growth in supply in
close correspondence with the growth in demand.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Managed growth does not happen
without concerted effort by the local government
guided by instruction from staff planners. Long-range
planners should present annual reports to the Planning
Commission. The reports should include the type of
analysis that I sent to you. The analysis should be
expanded from just housing to retail (comparing growth
in inflation adjusted retail spending to growth in
retail space); to office (comparing growth in office
sector jobs to the growth in office space; etc. The
report should establish a sense of the Planning
Commission’s past performance (are the various
submarkets overbuilt? Balanced? Underbuilt?) and a
sense of objectives for the next year or two (e.g.:
Lawrence is expected to add 140 new renter households
and needs x new rental units to absorb this growth).
Without these benchmarks, the Planning Commission is
letting developers set the pace of growth, and we have
seen this fail time and time again.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I suggest that LAN as well as
neighborhood organizations push for growth management
to be included in the updated Horizon 2020.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kirk</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kirk and Jeannie McClure<br>
707 Tennessee Street<br>
Lawrence, Kansas 66044-2369<br>
785.842.8968<br>
<a href="mailto:mcclurefamily@sbcglobal.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">mcclurefamily@sbcglobal.net</a></p>
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<i>"The first lesson to be learned by every citizen who desires to
bring about a higher life in our American cities is that he must
take an active part in managing the affairs of his own city."</i>
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