Story updated at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, 2019: The City of Lawrence has announced final candidates for the position of city manager. The two finalists are Susan Sherman and Craig Owens, according to a news release from the city Wednesday. Sherman is currently the assistant city manager for Olathe. Owens is the city manager of Clayton, Mo. Mayor Lisa Larsen said that all the candidates selected for ...
If Lawrence motorists feel like they’re hitting more potholes — or swerving to avoid more of them — they may be right. So far this year, city road crews have had to patch more than 10,000 potholes. City officials say that because of the amount of snowfall this winter, the city has patched almost as many potholes in the first three months of the year as it did in all of 2018. Municipal Services and ...
Final candidates for the position of city manager will be announced this week, and an event to allow residents to weigh in on the finalists will occur soon. The Lawrence City Commission conducted the first round of in-person interviews for city manager with a pool of six candidates in closed session Saturday. Mayor Lisa Larsen said at the commission’s most recent meeting that the commission planned to select ...
City leaders are hitting pause on the consideration of permits for some Airbnb rental properties to ask major questions about how the properties should be regulated. The commission recently created regulations for Airbnbs and other short-term rentals, but at its most recent meeting voted 3-2 to defer considering permits for three whole-home short-term rentals, where the property owner resides elsewhere, so it ...
One of the city’s long-running road construction projects is set to continue a little longer. The $5.9 million reconstruction of Kasold Drive, from Sixth Street to Bob Billings Parkway, began more than one year ago and has restricted traffic to one lane throughout the project. The project was originally scheduled to be complete by the end of 2018. City Engineer Dave Cronin said that the project has been ...
The city’s historic preservation board says that plans to build a five-story and more than 550-bedroom apartment and retail building on a prominent corner of Massachusetts Street are wholly inappropriate. As part of its meeting Thursday, the city’s Historic Resources Commission voted unanimously to deny a certificate of appropriateness for the project, finding instead that the project will encroach upon, ...