Bottom line: The Lawrence City Commission will consider a request to rezone approximately 2.11 acres to allow a restoration business to operate in west Lawrence. The rezoning would allow for Lawrence-based Rainbow International of NE Kansas to build a new office and shop building on a vacant lot in the 1300 block of Research Park Drive.

Background: Rainbow is a company that specializes in restoring properties that have been damaged by water, fire, mold or other such hazards. Currently, the business has space along Wakarusa Drive, but the new property would allow for expansion.

A planning commission staff report states that the planning director determined that a restoration business is classified as a Construction Sales and Service use. If approved Tuesday, the property on Research Park Drive would be rezoned from industrial business park use to light industrial zoning category, which would allow Rainbow to have a shop component.

Commissioners convene at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.

Consent agenda

• Approve City Commission meeting minutes from 08/02/16.

• Approve all claims. The list of claims will be posted by the Finance Department on Monday prior to the meeting. If Monday is a holiday, the claims will be posted as soon as possible the next business day.

• Approve licenses as recommended by the City Clerk’s Office.

• Bid and purchase items:

a) Award the construction contract for Bid No. B1627, Project No. UT1602 – Wakarusa Water Treatment Plant Coating, Influent Building, and Biosolids Pump Station, to Gray & Company, Inc., in the amount of $132,862, and authorize the City Manager to execute the construction contract.

b) Authorize the City Manager to execute Change Order No. 1 with Crossland Heavy Contractors for the Clinton Water Treatment Plant Raw Water Pump Station Improvements, Project No. UT1417, increasing the construction contract by $25,219 and extending the final completion date by 45 days.

• Adopt on second and final reading, the following ordinances:

a) Ordinance No. 9269, correcting Section 18-304 of the Lawrence City Code to replace text that was inadvertently omitted with the Incorporation by Reference Document (IBR) for TA-15-00346 – Text Amendment to the Land Development Code to add Urban Agriculture as a permitted use and establish standards.

b) Ordinance No. 9272, adopting the Planning Fee Schedule.

c) Ordinance No. 9271, amending the City of Lawrence Code Section 5-176 relating to adding a plan review fee for commercial and multi-family structures.

d) Joint City Ordinance No. 9264 /County Resolution No. _, for Text Amendments (TA-15-00461) to the joint city/county subdivision regulations in the City of Lawrence Land Development Code, Chapter 20, Article 8 and the Douglas County Code, Chapter 11, Article 1 to allow Accessory Dwelling Units on property divided through a Certificate of Survey in the unincorporated portion of the county.

• Approve rezoning, Z-16-00215, approximately 2.11 acres from IBP (Industrial/Business Park) District to IL (Limited Industrial) District, located at 1300 Research Park Drive, Lot 3, Block 3. Submitted by Wallace Engineering, for Lydia L. Neu and Robert M. Neu, property owners of record. Adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 9277, to rezone (Z-16-00215) 2.11 acres from IBP (Industrial/Business Park) District to IL (Limited Industrial) District, located at 1300 Research Park Drive, Lot 3, Block 3. (PC Item 3; approved 10-0 on 7/25/16)

Receive public comment of a general nature

Discuss commission items

Receive city manager’s report

Work Session Agenda

• Receive concept study for the reconstruction of Kasold Drive, from Sixth Street to Bob Billings Parkway, Project No. PW1505.

• Receive summary of 2017 Capital Improvement project for Wakarusa Drive and Harvard Road intersection, Project No. PW1527.

Receive public comment on items pertaining to the work session agenda