Brick street renovation under consideration
City commissioners may decide tonight whether to undertake a brick street renovation project in Old West Lawrence.
The city previously had received a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation to rehabilitate the brick portion of Ohio Street, between Sixth and Eighth streets.
The project would involve removing the existing road, cleaning and salvaging bricks and stone curbs, treating the subgrade of the road, and then replacing the bricks.
But the grant will pay for only 80 percent of the approximately $980,000 project. The city would have to pick up about $195,000 in costs. City commissioners need to decide whether they want to fund the project and how it would address future brick street project requests.
City commissioners meet at 6:35 p.m. today at City Hall.
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