"Urban League" plans to make Kansas City more liveable
Submitted by Brent Hugh on Sat, 09/25/2004 - 6:52pm
The Kansas City Star has an article about the new "Urban Society of Kansas City", a group of businesspeople, planners, and architects, who would like to make Kansas City a more liveable city:
Its other immediate goal is to challenge the grip city and state traffic engineers have over the city and its development. . . .
“We need to end the dominance of the automobile in the River Crown Plaza by throwing out our suburban-oriented zoning code and deposing the dictatorship enjoyed by traffic engineers since the end of World War II ... the scope of the damage has been enormous.”
Their ideas include allowing diagonal parking on some of the broader streets in the Crossroads area; creating more curbside parking in the rest of downtown; repealing codes that require downtown retailers to provide the same parking as suburban businesses; scrapping some one-way streets, and breaking the chokehold of the downtown freeway loop. . . .
“I want to taunt them into a fight over this, these individuals who have wrecked the city to facilitate the flow of traffic,” he said. “They can do a lot of good for the city and if they choose not to do that, (City Manager) Wayne Cauthen should fire them.”
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