Nearly two years after Lawrence city commissioners established the city's tobacco licensing program, Lawrence has a “glut” of licensed tobacco retailers, almost 20% of which were found to have sold tobacco products to underage customers in 2023.
That's according to a new report from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, which has been studying tobacco sales in the city since the commission approved the ...
As speakers described proposed changes to the structure of Lawrence’s government during a presentation to the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, some in the audience expressed hesitancy about the need for change.
The event featured presentations from John Nalbandian, a former mayor of Lawrence and professor at the University of Kansas who chaired the task force that provided recommendations for the change of the ...
City commissioners have voted in favor of a proposed "road diet" that would reduce the number of lanes for cars along a portion of Ninth Street between downtown Lawrence and the University of Kansas and add protected bike lanes.
At their meeting Tuesday, commissioners reviewed the plan that would redesign Ninth Street from Illinois Street to Vermont Street and voted 4-1 to recommend that it proceed. ...
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City commissioners have a chance to give another step in the approval process for construction of a new 26,275-square-foot public safety building near the Douglas County Jail.
Plans for the new building — which would serve as a headquarters for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the 911 dispatch center and the county’s emergency management center — are also tied in with ...
Omar Maali thinks of one photo of a conference room that tells a story about the space in Lawrence’s City Hall.
In a presentation given to the City Commission on Sept. 10 that outlined plans to potentially move away from the current building at 6 E. Sixth St., one of the slides showed that photo as an example of the “challenges” of the current location. In it, you can see two hastily created desks, stuck ...
City leaders will soon review a plan that could reduce the number of lanes for cars and add new lanes for bikes on a portion of Ninth Street between downtown Lawrence and the University of Kansas.
On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will provide its input on a proposed redesign of Ninth Street from Illinois Street to Vermont Street. Currently the street has four lanes of motor vehicle traffic, two in each ...
