Two years after Lawrence streamlined its rules for building projects near historic properties, city leaders want to know how the changes are working – and what would happen if the rules went away. At their meeting on Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners had a discussion with Brenna Buchanan ...
Instead of getting their city funding clawed back on Tuesday night, two affordable housing projects got another chance – but one of them will also have a deadline. At its meeting on Tuesday, the City Commission voted not to recoup about $46,000 in affordable housing trust funding from ...
The section of Ninth Street that's closed for a stormwater project will soon be extended through Mississippi Street, but some traffic could be flowing again on Ninth by later in the summer. That's according to a news release from the City of Lawrence on Tuesday. The city said that Mississippi ...
North Lawrence’s underpass will soon have a warning system to alert drivers when it floods during heavy rains, city staff told the Journal-World on Tuesday. Shane Golden of the city’s Municipal Services and Operations Division said that work was underway Tuesday on the warning system, ...
A Lawrence ordinance designed to stop landlords from denying an apartment to an individual because they would pay the rent with money from public assistance programs has been dealt a likely fatal blow by the Kansas Legislature. The Republican-controlled Legislature overrode the veto of ...
As Lawrence’s parking manager, Brad Harrell is well aware that parking garages have an image problem. “Parking garages are dark and intimidating by nature,” Harrell says in his brightly lit office in the New Hampshire Street garage. They’re associated with crime and graffiti, and ...