Agenda highlights ¢ 6:35 p.m. Tuesday ¢ City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets ¢ Sunflower Broadband Channel 25 ¢ Meeting documents online at www.lawrenceks.org

Oread Inn to seek changes to plan

Bottom line

City commissioners are being asked to give approval to the closing of a road and some minor changes to construction plans for The Oread Inn, a seven-story hotel near 12th and Indiana streets.

Background

Developers are presenting a new plan that would close Indiana Street from 11th Street to 12th Street for much of the summer. The closure is needed, developers said, to give construction crews the necessary room to safely build an underground parking garage. The developers also are asking to vacate three feet of right of way for Indiana Street.

The vacation would allow the entire hotel to be shifted three feet farther to the west. The shift also is needed to accommodate the construction of the underground parking garage.

Other business

Recognition

¢ Proclaim the week of May 18-24 as Public Works Week.

Consent agenda

¢ Approve City Commission meeting minutes from May 6.

¢ Receive minutes from various boards and commissions.

¢ Approve all claims. The list of approved claims will be posted to the agenda the day after the City Commission meeting.

¢ Approve appointments as recommended by the mayor.

¢ Approve city/county appointments to the Steering Committee for the planned improvements of 31st Street, from Haskell Avenue to O’Connell Road.

¢ Bid and purchase items:

a.) Award City Bid No. B08043, Project No. PW0808, 2008 Overlay Program, Phase 1 to LRM Industries, Inc., in the amount of $491,995.60.

b.) Set bid date of June 3 for City Bid No. B08050, Project No. PW0809, 2008 Overlay Program, Phase 2, and Project No. 25-GI4-807(C), 18th and Louisiana Street, Raised Crosswalk (two projects, one contract). Location Map – Phase II.

¢ Adopt the following ordinance(s) on first reading:

a.) Ordinance No. 8268, for Landmark Designation, L-08-01-07, placing the structure located at 805 Ohio Street on the Lawrence Register of Historic Places .

b.) Ordinance No. 8269, for Landmark Designation, L-09-02-07, placing the structure located at 934 W. 21st St. on the Lawrence Register of Historic Places.

c.) Ordinance No. 8271, rezoning approximately .39 acres (Z-02-06-08) from RM-12 D (Multi-Dwelling Residential) to RS-7 (Single-Dwelling Residential). The property is located at 1309-11 W. Eighth Street, and a portion of 820-22 Canterbury Lane. (PC Item 7; approved 6-0 on 4/23/08)

d.) Ordinance No. 8275 establishing STOP signs at the four traffic booth entrances on the KU campus.

e.) Ordinance No. 8276, authorizing the possession and consumption of alcoholic liquor at the Lawrence Municipal Airport on Wednesday, June 11, 2008, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Mixer event hosted by the Airport Advisory Board.

¢ Adopt the following ordinance(s) on second and final reading:

a.) Ordinance No. 8270, rezoning approximately 140 acres for Bauer Brook Estates (Z-03-08-08) from A-1 (Suburban Home Residential) to RS-40 (Single-Dwelling Residential). The property is located at the southeast corner of Folks and Peterson Roads. (PC Item 4; approved 7-0 on 4/21/08)

b.) Joint City Ordinance No. 8272/County Resolution No. ____, amending Horizon 2020 to ensure proper comprehensive plan language is in place for a proposed mixed use district in the City of Lawrence Land Development Code.

c.) Ordinance No. 8273, establishing the maximum assessments for improvements at the intersection of Sixth Street and Congressional Drive.

¢ Approve request by Steve Block, manager of Wakarusa 15 Associates LLC (the property owner of Lot 3A of Alvamar Northwest No. 3), for a variance from 19-214A of the code which states that each lot shall have direct access to the City sanitary sewer main in City public right of way or City public utility easement. Such access shall not cross property ownership lines unless the access is in adjacent City public right of way or adjacent City public utility easement.

¢ Receive city manager’s report.

Regular agenda

¢ Receive request from Timothy Homburg, architect, NSPJ Architects, architects for the construction of The Oread Inn, requesting the vacation of a portion of the right-of-way on the east side of Indiana Street. Consider proposal to close Indiana Street adjacent to the Oread Inn project construction.