County officials oppose putting a new homeless project on county-owned land by the Lawrence Community Shelter, in part, because the site isn’t visible enough in the community and is too near the Douglas County Jail.
A county spokeswoman on Wednesday said those were two of four strong reservations that the county expressed to city officials when they asked about putting a project that would provide 75 tiny ...
Talks for the city to buy a vacant lot near 19th and Haskell for a new homeless shelter project have fallen through, according to an owner of the property.
Tony Krsnich, who leads a group that owns the property at 800 Lynn St., told me that negotiations with the city have ended without a deal. I reached out to Krsnich on Wednesday morning knowing that city commissioners on Tuesday evening met in executive ...
The top leaders of the Douglas County Republican Party have come together to unanimously ask the City of Lawrence, county commissioners and other local governments to immediately reduce taxes.
New Douglas County GOP Chair Brent Hoffman said approximately 55 precinct committee men and women approved a resolution asking local governments to revert their local tax collections back to levels last seen in 2021. ...
In the course of one day, Douglas County officials have changed their tune on whether they think a proposed village project for the homeless would be appropriate on county-owned land behind the Lawrence Community Shelter.
On Monday, a top county official said county staff had never researched whether use of the county-owned land would be feasible for the project, which is being pursued by city officials.
But ...
There are indications that the city is interested in a site near 18th and Haskell to locate a unique “pallet home” project that would provide small shelters for about 75 individuals who are homeless.
While city officials won’t confirm whether it is targeting the Haskell Avenue property, they did confirm one piece of property the city is not considering for the homeless project: a large piece of ...
Updated at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 4, 2023
They may be a pair of 80-foot signs proclaiming “Kansas City,” but make no mistake, there’s a lot of Lawrence in them.
Both the entrance and exit signs to the new $1.5 billion Kansas City International Airport were actually made in East Lawrence.
“You can’t miss them,” Shelley Rosdahl, vice president with Lawrence-based Star Signs, said of the ...
