Thursday, September 11, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
PcDweH keadls jDetittiom drive
Proposed ballot measure would replace plants with parking
By LeAnne Lovings
Staff Reporter
f If downtown retailer 0. M. "Jack"
i Powell gets his way, Lincoln residents
) could see a change in the downtown
environment. Powell is leading a peti-
tion drive to remove many of the trees
; downtown and replace them with diag
j onal parking stalls.
Jack Powell, owner of Powell's Jewel
j trs, 1317 0 St.r for 22 years, started
circulating his petition July 23. He said
he hopes to get the necessary 4,746
petition signatures by October to place
Members of the Downtown Lincoln
Association say they are upset by Pow
ell's petition and have voted unanim
ously against supporting his efforts.
"We would like to take a positive
stance towards furthering the parking
downtown, but we don't feel that Pow
ell's ideas are the answer," said Carol
Jess, executive director of the asso
ciation. Jess also said that even if Powell's
petition got on the ballot, it would have
a hard time passing because it is
vaguely worded.
Powell said he will continue the
petition drive until he has enough
signatures.
the issue on the November ballot.
Although Powell refused to sav how
j many signatures he has, he said that he
j collected more than 600 signatures at
! his store alone.
The trees that Powell wants to remove
f were planted downtown as part of a
i beautification project more than 10
years ago. Powell said he and many
other downtown businessmen were
forced to pay for the trees through spe-
cial assessment taxes. He said he did
j not like the idea then, and he certainly
doesn't like the idea now.
"I love trees just as much as anv-
body, but without parking, business is
dead," Powell said.
According to Richard Haden, acting
city traffic engineer, parking space
downtown has increased by 250 spaces
since 1975. He said additional parking
garages have made up for the parking
lost when trees were planted.
However, Powell said he feels that
shoppers are intimidated by parking
garages and would rather not park in
them.
"There must be on-street parking,"
Powell said.
Powell proposes the addition of dia
gonal parking in an 81-square-block
area, adding what he says would be
some 8,000 parking SDaces. However.
I some feel that diagonal parking is too
! dangerous m heavy downtown traffic.
Haden stated that the number of
I parking accidents was reduced when
downtown parking originally was con
; verted to parallel stalls.
I Haden also stated that even if Powell's
; drive succeeds, certain streets, such as
- O, Ninth, 10th and parts of 17th would
be left with parallel parking because of
'previous commitments and the accep
tance of federal aid for those streets
that makes them off-limits to changes.
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