25 years ago: Commission approves six-year plan of infrastructure improvements

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 7, 1986:

  • Strong support of infrastructure improvements was evident at a recent meeting of the Lawrence City Commission. Commissioners had unanimously approved a Capital Improvements Plan, which included a schedule of major city projects for the next six years. Commissioner Ernest Angino recommended several projects for the city’s attention, including the repaving of Massachusetts Street from Sixth to North Park streets, repairing the Naismith ditch liner from 21st to 23rd streets, and repairing or replacing storm sewers, traffic lights, curbs and guttering in various locations in the city.
  • Details of the new $12 million human development center at Kansas University were released by KU officials. The four-story building, to be built just east of Haworth Hall, was to house the departments of human development and family life, special education, speech-language-hearing sciences and disorders, radio-television, the Bureau of child research and the Gerontology Center.