UPDATED 11:45 a.m. Oct. 1
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 ...
Community members shared their input on possible changes to downtown Lawrence's tiny Robinson Park — including changing its name or adding an Indigenous monument — at an open house hosted by the Sacred Red Rock Project on Thursday.
The group wants public feedback on what the park's future should be now that the prayer rock that once stood there, Iⁿ’zhúje’waxóbe, has been returned to the Kaw Nation. ...
More than a year after the prayer rock that stood in Robinson Park was returned to the Kaw Nation, the team behind that effort will be hosting an open house on Thursday to discuss some ideas for the future of the little park downtown.
The focal point of the park, which lies across the street from City Hall, previously was the 28-ton red quartzite boulder called Iⁿ’zhúje’waxóbe (pronounced “EE(n) ...
A proposal to convert a former rural schoolhouse between Lawrence and Eudora into a day care home for adults with developmental disabilities is closer to fruition after the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission gave it a key approval on Monday.
The commission unanimously voted on Monday night to approve a conditional use permit for the project and forward it to the Douglas County Commission for a final ...
