Lawrence Journal-World 08-03-13

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Home buyers to have access to energy audits By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Maybe someday people will brag about the energy efficiency of their homes like they brag about the miles per gallon they get in their fuel-sipping automobiles. Maybe someday soon in Lawrence. Building code changes that took effect July 1 made Lawrence one of the few cities in the region to require that all newly constructed homes undergo a home energy audit, which in most cases is going to produce

You’re really going to see builders take a lot more time and effort to seal up their houses. They’re going to be using a lot more caulking, a lot more foam to fill up empty spaces. If you have a lot of air moving in and out the house, that’s not going to be good for your score.” — Neal Ezell, a local builder who already uses the system a score that will allow comparison of energy efficiency among homes. “We think it is going to work much like miles-per-gallon numbers when people are shopping for a car,” said Bobbie

Flory, executive director of the Lawrence Home Builders Association. The changes are part of the 2012 International Building Code, which ups the ante on home energy efficiency. But

many communities are exempting themselves from the home energy standards in the code. Lawrence officials did not but did tweak the rules a bit to allow builders to use a specific type of test, the Home Energy Rating System, to determine the energy efficiency of a home.

The HERS test involves a private home energy auditor reviewing the building plans for a home. The auditor calculates a score based on the amount of insulation used, the energy efficiency of appliances and equipment and other factors. The auditor then does an inspection of the Please see ENERGY, page 2A

Appeals court upholds city’s sidewalk ordinance

Derby sets collision course for fun

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photos

BEFORE A PACKED GRANDSTAND and a contingent of firefighters, drivers muscle through the first heat of the Demolition Derby on Friday at the Douglas County Fair. Thirty-one cars and trucks took part in the annual smash bash.

Clunkers power through crash test By Meagan Thomas mthomas@ljworld.com

There was an eightcar pileup at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Friday night. And a two-car crash. And just about every combination of automotive mayhem in between. With engines revving,

exhausts blazing, bodies battered, tires twisted, and with various pieces falling off, competitors in the fair’s demolition derby took aim at each other in multiple heats in the mud-filled outdoor arena. The competition pitted junker against junker — creating even more junk HANK SCHRINER, 6, of Spring Hill, rests on his father’s car before the Derby. See a photo gallery at LJWorld.com Please see DERBY, page 2A

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TOPEKA — A panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday upheld Lawrence’s sidewalk ordinance, which had been challenged as unconstitutional by a homeless man who has been arrested repeatedly by police. The attorney for Robert S. Gilmore argued that the city ordinance that prohibits obstruction of traffic was too vague and broad. Gilmore, 55, had been charged on three counts of obstructing people from being able to pass on the sidewalk in front of Weaver’s Department Store at the corner of Massachusetts and Ninth streets in 2011. Last year, Lawrence Municipal Court Judge Randy McGrath acquitted Gilmore. Prosecutors appealed Robert S. Gilmore on Massachuthe case to setts Street in a 2003 file photo State District Court Paul Martin on the legal question only, asking her to declare the ordinance constitutional. They did not ask her to overrule Gilmore’s acquittal in the case. Martin upheld the ordinance. The three-judge panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed Martin’s decision. The ordinance prohibits obstructing “traffic on any street, sidewalk, or other right-ofway of this city after having been ordered by a police officer to end such obstruction.” The ordinance further states that obstructing traffic means “ … to walk, stand, sit,

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A nearly 10,000-pound piece of the World Trade Center may be put on display in front of the Lawrence Visitors Center. Page 3A

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