After nine months without a public comment period, the Lawrence school board will again allow community members to address board members at the end of their regular meetings. After Bob Byers was appointed board president in July, he expressed an interest in bringing a public comment period back after the school board stopped including it on the agenda in December 2025, as the Journal-World reported. In the ...
To enhance the safety of city streets, the City of Lawrence is hoping to add speed cushions to three roads in northwestern Lawrence to reduce speeding. During the Connected City Advisory Board meeting on Monday, city staff presented three different road segments where they hope to add speed cushions – raised areas of pavement designed to slow down traffic without hindering emergency vehicles or buses: ...
A city advisory board is backing a plan to close the Lawrence Loop’s downtown gap with a route along Seventh and New Hampshire streets, though it might change in the future depending on what happens to the Riverfront Mall property. On Monday, the Connected City Advisory Board reviewed a draft report from Trekk Design Group on how to close the downtown segment of the approximately 22-mile Lawrence Loop. The ...
The Lawrence school district’s four-year, on-time graduation rate has improved to 88.7% in 2025, however, there are disparities among many student groups the district hopes to focus on moving forward. The graduation rate is the percentage of students who earn a high school diploma within four years of starting ninth grade. The district’s rate has improved by 1.4 percentage points from 2024, and has ...
Douglas County commissioners supported staff's plan to begin making smaller amendment proposals to the county’s zoning code on Wednesday while planning for an overhaul of its land-use rules. The county is planning to take a “phased approach” to updating its zoning and subdivision regulations after a comprehensive review of two chapters in the code was completed this summer, as the Journal-World reported. ...
Douglas County commissioners will hear about plans to update the county’s zoning and subdivision rules on Wednesday, starting with smaller administrative changes before addressing broader land-use and development policies. The county is planning to take a “phased approach” to updating its zoning and subdivision regulations. The first phase will focus on smaller administrative and technical changes that ...