Speakers: Ecology needed
in successful urban plans
By Matthew Reermann
Staffwriter
Ecologically minded speakers
Saturday stressed the importance of
zoning and urban planning for city
land development.
In the second of three lectures at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
developers and environmentalists dis
cussed better ways to build at the_
Planning With Vision conference.”
The conference, sponsored by the
Lincoln Wachiska Audubon Society,
focused on productive methods of land
use.
Stephen Apfelbaum, a research
and consulting ecologist with Applied
Ecological Services in Wisconsin,
emphasized the need for holistic plan
ning by city councils and developers.
“You must weave together ecology,
economy and culture when you make
planning decisions,” he said. “They
cannot be considered separately.”
Apfelbaum walked die crowd of 50
through Prairie Home, a model com
munity he’d worked on a few miles
north of Chicago.
The town incorporated ecological
elements including low water runoff,
native grasses instead of lawns and
numerous communal gathering places.
“People want open space,” he said.
“They want to feel connected, both to
each other and to the natural world
around them. In most of the suburbs
around the country, people stay for
only three to five years. Here they’ve
been staying 10 or more.”
He also showed the audience ways
holistic planning can actually end up
saving cities money.
“Developers also find that environ
mentally conscious designs are actual
ly cheaper and more profitable,”
Apfelbaum said.
Speaker, Jeffrey Johnson, director
of planning at HDR Inc., brought a
local perspective to the conference. He
discussed several current projects
around the state, including the rapidly
developing Lower Platte River area.
All of Johnson’s designs incorpo
rated the principle of mixed land use
-the idea that varying types of con
struction should be placed side by side.
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Developers also find
that environmentally
conscious designs are
actually cheaper”
Stephen Apfelbaum
consulting ecologist
“Zoning is a core principle of
orthodox urban planning,” he said.
“But our job should be to show them
that there is a better way.”
Johnson’s remarks seemed to unin
tentionally echo Apfelbaum’s ideas.
“Urban planning should harmo
nize with the social, political and cul
tural aspects of life,” he said.
This was the second of three con
ferences on community and regional
planning co-sponsored by the UNL
College of Architecture. The third,
which will deal with environmental
catastrophes, will be held in
November.
City to appeal ruling
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“The nature of the ordinance was a
little different, but the issues were simi
lar,” Klaus said.
Klaus said the court probably won’t
decide whether to review the ordinance
for another 30 to 45 days.
The City Council’s decision to ask
die appeals court to review the ordi
nance is the latest part of a long effort by
the council to defend the ordinance.
Former Mayor Mike Johanns tried
unsuccessfully to veto the ordinance
just after the City Council approved it.
U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of
Lincoln then ruled the city ordinance
was unconstitutional in November
1998, triggering an appeal by the City
Council.
On Monday, council members Jon
Camp, Jonathan Cook, Cindy Johnson,
Annette McRoy and Seng voted to ask
the court to review the ordinance.
Council members Jeff Fortenberry
and Jerry Shoecraft voted against the
appeal. The pair also voted against the
ordinance when it was approved in
September 1998 and against overriding
a veto attempt by then-mayor Johanns.
Parking committee rejects
permit fee plan for garage
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“We’re going to have a mass exodus
(of faculty members),” she said. “What,
are you going to do when nobody’s here
anymore?”
The cost of building a garage at 17th
and R streets would be about $ 18 mil
lion. Myers was quick to point out the
large sum at the meeting, saying using
revenue from permit fees was not the
way to fund the project.“That’s ridicu
lous that the university should be mak
ing that kind of expectation and
assumption,” he said.
Some of the members said the uni
versity’s staff should be categorized
into the same price bracket as its stu
dents. The average income of a UNL
staff member is about $20,000 per year,
committee members said.
Keith Zaborowski, serving as the
chancellor’s appointee at the meeting,
said he felt placing the staff into the
same bracket as students would have
been a better idea.
“Students control a good chunk of
the parking,” Zaborowski said. “Yet it’s
faculty and staff being asked to pay for
the parking at a much higher burden.
The staff are just as poor as our students
are poor.”
Jim Main, assistant vice chancellor
for business and finance, said the per
mit rates could climb higher if other
ways for binding were not found.
Lineberry said that would be unfair
to students, faculty and staff.
“People aren’t going to stand for it,”
Lineberry said. “I don’t think we
should be the sole means of funding
this garage.”
NEW YORK (AP)—Big Blue is
giving itself the Big Boot.
IBM, whose name has been syn
onymous with personal computers,
for two decades, said Tuesday it is
pulling its money-losing line of PCs
from retail stores in the United States
and will sell them exclusively over
the Internet in a drastic move to cut
costs.
Aptiva PCs will disappear from
shelves starting Jan. 1. IBM’s
ThinkPad laptops, which are prof
itable, will continue to be available in
stores.
The retreat underscores the enor
mous pressure facing the nation’s
third-largest PC maker. IBM’s
Personal Systems Group, which sells
PCs to both consumers and business
es, lost about $150 million in the sec
ond quarter and nearly $1 billion last
year.
By withdrawing its PCs from
about 70 U.S. retail chains, IBM
saves on the fees stores typically
charge to display and st^ck products.
“We need to restore this business
to profitability,” IBM spokeswoman
Trink Guarino said. Moving out of
stores “will save us a lot of money.”
To buoy awareness of the Aptiva
brand and encourage people to visit
its ShopIBM Web site, which it is
redesigning, IBM plans to launch a
$20 million advertising campaign
early next year that will include tele
vision and direct mail.
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