- Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority reopens waiting lists for affordable housing
- June 29, 2011
- Commissioners were told at their weekly meeting that Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority has reopened several waiting lists that previously had been closed due to a shortage of affordable housing options.
Town Talk
Read news and notes about Lawrence in Chad Lawhorn's Town Talk blog.City Officials
City Commission
- Mayor Aron Cromwell
(785) 749-6020 - Vice-Mayor Bob Schumm
(785) 842-7337 - Commissioner Mike Amyx
(785) 842-9425 - Commissioner Hugh Carter
(785) 764-3362 - Commissioner Michael Dever
(785) 550-4909
City Hall and other offices
- City Manager Dave Corliss
(785) 832-3400 - Acting City Clerk Jonathan Douglass
(785) 832-3466 - Assistant City Manager Cynthia M. Wagner
(785) 832-3400 - Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard
(785) 832-3400 - Communications Manager Megan Gilliland
(785) 832-3406 - Finance Director Ed Mullins
(785) 832-3214 - Planning and Development Services Director Scott McCullough
(785) 832-3154 - Public Works Director Charles Soules
(785) 832-3124 - Fire and Medical, Lawrence-Douglas County Administrative Offices
(785) 830-7000
1911 Stewart Ave., Lawrence, KS 66046
Mark Bradford, Chief - Lawrence Transit System
(785) 832-3464
933 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS 66044
Robert Nugent, Public Transit Administrator - Parks and Recreation
(785) 832-3450
947 New Hampshire Street, Suite 200B, Lawrence, KS 66044
Ernie Shaw, Interim Director - Police Law Enforcement Center
(785) 832-7501
111 E. 11th, Lawrence, KS 66044
Tarik Khatib, Interim Chief - Waste Reduction and Recycling
(785) 832-3030
320 N.E. Industrial Lane, Lawrence, KS 66044
Kathy Richardson, Operations Supervisor
City of Lawrence
Editor's note: The links above are to the City of Lawrence Web site.
- City Commission agenda for Feb. 14
- February 10, 2012
- City may take step toward new rec center
- Lawrence City Commision to review plan to turn Gaslight mobile park into student housing complex
- February 10, 2012
- A plan to convert a South Lawrence trailer park into a development that will have nearly 1,000 bedrooms for local college students is set for a key vote at Lawrence City Hall.
- Lawrence city sidewalk ordinance ruled unconstitutional
- February 9, 2012
- A Lawrence Municipal Court judge has declared part of a city ordinance that makes it illegal to obstruct traffic on a sidewalk vague and unconstitutional. Judge Randy McGrath made the ruling Wednesday in a trial of Robert Gilmore, 54, who faced three misdemeanor counts of prohibited use of a right of way for incidents last year on Massachusetts Street.
- City allows fake grass at apartments
- But commissioners say turf should only be used in ‘limited situations’ in future
- February 8, 2012
- The grass will always be greener on the other side of at least one Lawrence fence. Lawrence city commissioners went against a staff recommendation and agreed on Tuesday to “grandfather in” more than 20,000 square feet of artificial turf that was installed contrary to city code at a west Lawrence apartment complex.
- Lawrence commissioners to determine whether to create four community gardens
- February 6, 2012
- Commissioners at their meeting Tuesday will consider approving a plan to allow four pieces of city-owned ground to be used for community gardens or market farms to promote everything from free fruit to fresh produce for local school lunches.
- City to decide whether to allow use of artificial grass in commercial projects
- February 5, 2012
- On the lawn of the Tuckaway Apartments at Frontier, it looks like Tiger Woods could play through at any moment. The grass, of course, isn’t grass. It is synthetic turf, and other than for use on sports fields, the city’s commercial landscape code says it is prohibited.
- City Commission agenda for Feb. 7
- February 5, 2012
- City commissioners will hear concerns from an Old West Lawrence resident who believes the installation of a special cable/telephone box by AT& is creating an aesthetics problem in the neighborhood.
- Library hopes new director hired before expansion starts
- February 3, 2012
- Candidates looking to become the next director of the Lawrence Public Library may want to come equipped with both an open mind and a hard hat.
- Developers revise plans for Ninth and New Hampshire hotel to respond to neighbors’ concerns
- February 2, 2012
- Plans for a multi-story hotel/apartment building on the southeast corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets have shrunk in hopes of attracting more support from neighbors.
- Lawrence’s Deciphera Pharmaceuticals gets $7 million for project with Eli Lilly
- February 1, 2012
- A Lawrence drug development firm has received a $7 million payment from pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. for work on research that could lead to a new drug to fight cancer.
- City agrees to rename street for Fambrough
- January 24, 2012
- If ever there is to be a museum devoted to exploring all things vile about Missouri, Lawrence soon will have the perfect intersection for it.
- Library closes the book on successful fundraising campaign
- January 22, 2012
- The towering stack of books that has been growing in the lobby of the Lawrence Public Library has grown even taller than library officials had hoped.
- Street name change would create intersection of Fambrough and — ack! — Missouri
- January 20, 2012
- Not even death and conference realignment, it appears, can separate Don Fambrough and his arch nemesis, Missouri.
- Opponents ask city to dump, alter trash plan
- January 20, 2012
- The size, shape, scope, cost and even the ethics of a draft report on recommendations for changes to the city’s trash and recycling system were called into question by Lawrence residents Thursday evening at City Hall.
- City commissioners defer action on parking issue for boarding houses
- January 18, 2012
- After nearly two hours of discussion, city commissioners on Tuesday deferred taking action on a request that would have changed the rules for boarding houses in the Oread neighborhood.
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