City leaders have started to narrow down a field of two dozen candidates for the position of city manager, and three finalists for the city’s top administrative job will be announced in coming weeks.
Instead of its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission held an approximately two-hour executive session to review applications for the city manager position. Following the session, ...
Story updated 6:01 p.m. Monday, March 11, 2019:
The Lawrence City Commission will hold an executive session instead of its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday. The session will last approximately two hours and will be used to discuss applicants for the city manager position.
There are no other items on the commission’s agenda.
City Manager Tom Markus announced in September that he planned to retire, and ...
Members of the city’s affordable housing board want to allow two homes to be built on one lot as long as at least one is designated as an affordable home or rental.
As part of its meeting Monday, the Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed a preliminary draft of changes to the city’s land use code that would allow two homes to be built on a single lot under certain conditions. One of the homes would ...
The design of the city’s new $18.5 million police headquarters has been revealed, and officials say the building — which will be energy efficient and surrounded by parkland — will be an asset for police and the public.
Police Captain Anthony Brixius said the police department is excited about the function and the look of the headquarters, as well as the way public access to police is improved by the ...
When staff at the Lawrence Community Shelter disassembled the wood-frame beds that more than 100 homeless people slept in nightly, they found a bedbug nest in nearly every one, shelter leaders say.
Interim Director Charles Frager said that for those who had no other choice but to sleep there, the shelter wasn’t providing them a good place to live. But he said that’s since changed. The shelter recently ...
City leaders have denied an Overland Park couple a permit to use a house in Lawrence as an Airbnb short-term rental property, citing a protest petition from neighbors and other factors.
The Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Commissioner Matthew Herbert opposing, to deny the permit as part of its meeting this week.
In explaining her vote, Mayor Lisa Larsen cited both the protest petition and the ...
