Social advocate and community board member Joey Hentzler has filed for election to the Lawrence City Commission. Hentzler, 25, has lived in Lawrence since 2011, but he said he has thought of the city as his home for longer than that. When he was a teenager and had not yet come out as gay, he often visited Lawrence, where he felt more comfortable than he did in Topeka. But after he officially moved to Lawrence ...
Though city leaders continue to stress the need to widen the South Lawrence Trafficway, state officials still have no answer as to when the project will be funded and able to move forward. As part of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, Kansas Department of Transportation representatives provided commissioners an update on the potential lane expansion of the western leg of the South Lawrence ...
City leaders will hear an update on the state’s efforts to widen or otherwise improve travel on the South Lawrence Trafficway, including the option of making the trafficway a toll road. As part of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, Kansas Department of Transportation representatives will provide commissioners an update on the potential lane expansion of the western leg of the South Lawrence ...
As the city embarks on a new venture in its affordable housing efforts — one involving the first changes to the local development code — some residents are asking questions about how those changes could affect neighborhoods. If approved, the proposed affordable housing density bonus would be the city’s first land use rules connected to the affordability of homes. Though the draft code changes are ...
An Australia-based animal health company that received startup funding from both the City of Lawrence and Douglas County has been ordered to repay some of that money now that it has abandoned its local offices. However, city officials say there's no easy way for the local governments to collect what they're owed, because the company appears to be defunct and the money is in a foreign country. Last year, the ...
The local sustainability director told city leaders Tuesday that ambitious climate action is needed on the global, national and local levels, and that the city needs a plan to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Lawrence-Douglas County Sustainability Director Jasmin Moore told city commissioners at their study session that local governments are already dealing with more frequent flooding and extreme heat, ...