“One property at a time” is how East Lawrence was built, Barry Shalinsky says on a walk through the neighborhood Friday morning, and its patchwork of sidewalks reflects that.
“If you walk down these brick sidewalks, you see there’s like 20 different kinds of bricks and 20 different patterns that people put them in,” says Shalinsky, the past president of the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association. ...
After the Affordable Housing Advisory Board had discussed requests for six- and even seven-figure sums out of the city’s affordable housing trust on Thursday, one of the last items it had to consider was a request for $80,000.
“It’s a pretty cheap ticket,” board member Mark Buhler said — then corrected himself: “I can’t believe I said that, $80,000 is a cheap ticket!”
With just over $1.2 ...
Fines for some traffic offenses in Lawrence will be going up next year, in a move that Municipal Court staff says puts the city in line with other communities in the region.
On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 5-0 in favor of the new fine schedule, which was originally on the commission’s consent agenda until Commissioner Brad Finkeldei pulled it off for a separate discussion.
The fines have not ...
Tiny homes, tenant education, senior apartments and a handful of other projects are all seeking money from the city's affordable housing trust in 2026, and an advisory board next week will start the process of figuring out what to fund.
The Affordable Housing Trust Fund is supported by a local sales tax measure that voters approved in 2017, and next year there will be $1.2 million available to distribute — ...
Story updated at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7:
Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens will be leaving his job with the city in May of 2026, the city announced in a news release Friday morning.
Owens was hired in 2019 after the previous city manager, Tom Markus, retired. The news release did not provide any details about the hiring process for Owens' replacement, but it said that Owens would remain "fully engaged in ...
Lawrence city commissioners next week will weigh in on a proposed policy that would set guidelines for how affordable housing incentives are issued.
The commission won't be voting on the more than 50-page Affordable Housing Incentive Policy next week, but it will hear a presentation on it and provide feedback to staff.
According to the meeting agenda materials, the policy is meant to provide clear guidelines ...
