The City of Lawrence will soon be starting a conversation about systemic racism to help inform potentially fundamental changes in policing and other city functions — with the city’s multimillion-dollar police budget in the balance.
Following local and national protests this year over police killings of Black people and systemic racism, Mayor Jennifer Ananda in June called for the city to consider about a ...
More details will soon be shared about the city’s plans to build a $29 million field operations headquarters in eastern Lawrence.
As part of the Lawrence City Commission meeting Tuesday, city staff and the design team for the project will present the master plan for the field operations campus, which the city plans to build on the site of the former Farmland nitrogen fertilizer plant in eastern Lawrence. The ...
The City of Lawrence is moving forward with plans to build a new bus-transfer hub, starting with a yearlong process to determine how bus routes should be restructured.
The city has previously allocated $4.5 million for the project, but the project was delayed because of years of debate about where to build the Multimodal Transfer Facility. The process to restructure the city’s bus routes will include a ...
Temporary shelters for homeless people can now house up to 40 occupants as long as the building has adequate space to do so.
As part of its consent agenda Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission approved new occupancy limits for temporary shelters that typically house homeless people during the winter months. The new occupancy limits are tied to square footage of the building, and they replace the previous rules ...
The City of Lawrence will be adding two new pedestrian crossings for high-traffic streets that run through residential neighborhoods.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to approve an additional $33,800 in funding to cover the project, which came in above estimates, according to a city staff memo to the commission. One crossing will be built at the intersection of ...
Local public health officials say they are creating a plan to step up enforcement of health orders put in place to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, including a recent order that prohibits businesses from serving alcohol after 9 p.m.
As part of its work session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission received a report and presentation from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health regarding local COVID-19 ...
