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City commissioners to consider final approvals for Menards project
“I think there is a good possibility that we can bring in more shoppers from outside the community if we have more variety.”
FROM WHERE DEVER? Can somebody please buy our commission a Got-damned Rand McNally?
The number of people 'outside the community' who are closer to Lawrence than Topeka or KC but shop outside because we lack variety? That'd be Baldwin, Eudora, Lecompton, and, on a really good day, Tongie or Ottawa (KCK or Olathe is closer, though). Added all up... it's still a small town.
It's a fine line of reasoning if you're Columbia MO or even Manhattan KS. You're the closest major shopping center for 100 miles of small towns and farms. This is not the case for Lawrence and will not be the case.
June 15, 2013 at 12:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City commissioners to consider final approvals for Menards project
If they were on west 6th, they'd probably get 95% of my business in that category. 100 feet from HD... no real reason to bother.
June 15, 2013 at 7:15 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Four people die in traffic accident in central Kansas
Hypnotised by windmills? I doubt we'll ever know with the driver deceased, but (and I'm totally pro-turbine), I'll admit that I have to be conscientious to look away from them when driving.
May 28, 2013 at 2:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City to flip the switch Wednesday on new traffic signal at 23rd and O'Connell; Sixth and Iowa intersection improvements delayed
Regarding gccs' proposal, I would however, leave the light and the left from NB Iowa to WB 6th. There's simply too much traffic that way for Rockledge to support, and it's not a major problem currently.
May 28, 2013 at 2:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City to flip the switch Wednesday on new traffic signal at 23rd and O'Connell; Sixth and Iowa intersection improvements delayed
I've had the same basic idea as gccs at that interchange. No, it's not the ideal solution. But anything there is going to be a kludge to keep using the existing box-culverts and roads that were put in 60 years ago when traffic was a quarter of what it is today.
I think the big problem is that a *lot* of traffic would be going '270 degrees' (westbound 6th to SB Iowa), and traffic from McDonald could stack up heavily trying to get on the rotary. One side benefit to the rotary proposal is that EB 6th to NB McDonald would no longer be trying to make an unprotected left.
May 28, 2013 at 1:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Plans filed for restaurant/retail on South Iowa site once proposed for Olive Garden
A Cracker Barrel at a location more than 200 yards from a freeway interchange? How would such a thing even be possible?
May 23, 2013 at 12:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
FreedomWorks urges Legislature to reject Common Core reading and math standards
We have a directly-elected state Board of Education. They're in the state constitution. Can the legislature just butt out a tiny bit and let them do their elected job?
May 22, 2013 at 5:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards
"Collaborated" is just another word for "Communism-ated", and I don't need no dadgum College Board or college degree to tell me that.
May 16, 2013 at 8:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Planning Commission to debate Menards project Monday amid signs momentum may be turning
Just so you don't think I'm conjuring this out of nothing, Google "menards tif" and "menards abatement". Enough articles in just the last two years, in enough other cities, that it's a modus operandi. I'd be shocked if it didn't happen.
May 16, 2013 at 11:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Planning Commission to debate Menards project Monday amid signs momentum may be turning
“I look at that and say ‘gosh, a Menards would be great in bringing some commercial taxes to a community that is going to have shrinking property tax revenues.'” - Farmer
That is, of course, until three months after the rezoning, when Menard's comes in for an abatement on their property tax on the land too. Oh, and redirect some of the sales taxes while we're at it. Which Farmer, Dever, and the crew won't hesitate for a second to bend over for. "That's just how things are done in the new economy... can't lose ground to Lenexa".
May 16, 2013 at 11:01 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )