The Lawrence Historic Resources Commission is recommending that the city create markers for two young men who were killed in confrontations with police during civil unrest in the summer of 1970.
As part of its meeting Wednesday, the HRC voted 6-0 to recommend that historic markers be created to memorialize the deaths of Rick “Tiger” Dowdell and Harry Nicholas “Nick” Rice, and that recommendation will ...
City leaders did not have enough support Tuesday to adopt new regulations for short-term rentals where the property owner lives elsewhere, and they will continue the discussion at a future meeting.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission considered adopting a new ordinance for whole-home Airbnbs and other short-term rentals that aimed to correct concerns regarding the city’s original ...
City leaders will soon consider adopting new regulations for short-term rentals where the property owner lives elsewhere that aim to correct concerns regarding the city’s original permitting process.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider adopting a new ordinance for whole-home Airbnb and other short-term rentals that includes restrictions that aim to prevent a ...
One thing the City of Lawrence has learned through an outside study of the former Farmland fertilizer plant is that cleaning up the contaminated site is going to cost millions of dollars more than once thought.
As the more than $8 million fund meant to help cover the cleanup veers toward empty, it’s now estimated the city will need to spend another $40 million to remediate contaminants in the ground and ...
The City of Lawrence has delayed the $5.3 million Queens Road project until 2021 because of pending litigation in the Kansas Court of Appeals.
The Lawrence City Commission voted to create two tax districts to fund the project nearly two years ago, but the city has been voluntarily putting the project on hold since one of the homeowners in the districts filed a lawsuit against the city in January 2019 that was ...
The city’s police review board that has previously described itself as a “rubber stamp” for the police department has begun the process of drafting changes to give the board more review powers.
As part of its meeting Thursday, the Community Police Review Board reviewed a sub-committee report on potential revisions to the ordinance that lays out the board’s powers and how it operates. Subcommittee ...
