After a change that the City Commission made on Tuesday, Lawrence's new Land Development Code will be a bit more restrictive on how many unrelated people can live together in certain places — but not as restrictive as what planning leaders had advanced.
At their meeting on Tuesday, city commissioners voted 4-1 to change the code's maximum occupancy in R-1 and R-2 zoning districts — the least-dense ...
City Commissioners will have a chance Tuesday night to review and approve the Parks, Recreation and Culture department’s master plan, which could serve as a roadmap for the next 10 years even as the department faces budget pressure.
The master plan, crafted with the help of consultants over two years, was approved by the department’s two advisory boards in February, as the Journal-World reported. The plan ...
Growing up, Carrie Greenwood never saw her disability as a bad thing — but she also didn't see many other wheelchair users like her in her everyday life.
She was born with a condition called arthrogryposis, which means her muscles are weaker and that she's missing some muscles and contractures in her bones and joints, and she has used a wheelchair her whole life.
So after she discovered the website for Miss ...
Downtown Lawrence should soon have a new mural from artists with the local nonprofit Van Go.
The Cultural Arts Commission unanimously approved Wednesday night the designs for a mural that will be installed adjacent to the entrance for the offices of local engineering consulting firm GPW & Associates, located at 1001 New Hampshire St.
Although the City Commission will still need to provide final ...
Lawrence city commissioners will consider approving financial incentives for an affordable housing complex in East Lawrence that's being spearheaded by a longtime local developer.
Developer Tony Krsnich’s Flint Hills Holding Group sent in an application to the city for Industrial Revenue Bonds that would allow the development at 716 East Ninth St. — currently known as 9 Del Lofts II — to not pay sales tax ...
Although Haskell Indian Nations University students are celebrating a ruling that would reinstate dozens of employees who were abruptly fired last month, many of them say they're still feeling the fallout of the layoffs — and wary of what might happen next.
On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ordered the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the ...
