A prime piece of downtown real estate will soon be available, and Lawrence Arts Center leaders are hoping that special tax revenue can help the center purchase the site. The Arts Center is requesting that city leaders and developers move forward with a 2012 agreement to use a percentage of ...
Planning commissioners have some of the same concerns as city leaders regarding certain Airbnb rental properties, queuing up a discussion of potential changes to the city’s recently established short-term-rental regulations. Last month, Lawrence city commissioners hit pause on the ...
When Christina Gentry first moved to Lawrence with her husband and four children, she began a long road of homelessness, she said Wednesday during a community meeting focusing on affordable housing. After plans to move into a five-bedroom home fell through, Gentry and her family were forced to ...
Retired auditor and community volunteer Stuart Boley has filed for reelection to the Lawrence City Commission. Boley was elected to the commission in 2015 along with fellow newcomers Leslie Soden and Matthew Herbert. Boley, who served as mayor last year, said he’s learned a lot over the past ...
The ongoing project to widen a portion of 23rd Street has the city at odds with a homeowner along the roadway. The city is widening 23rd Street between Louisiana and Massachusetts streets to install a center turn lane, requiring the city to acquire easements from several property owners, ...
Story updated at 4:03 p.m. Monday The current city manager of Clayton, Mo., will soon take over as Lawrence’s top nonelected official. At a special meeting Monday, the Lawrence City Commission announced that Craig Owens had been selected as the city’s next city manager. Reading a prepared ...
The Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission is looking for professional artists to develop a public art installation as part of the new Lawrence Police Department headquarters site. Individual artists or teams of artists have until midnight June 3 to submit a resume and samples of their work, ...
Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen will announce the next city manager during a special City Commission meeting Monday. After a national search, the city has narrowed the candidates to two finalists: Susan Sherman, who is currently the assistant city manager for Olathe, and Craig Owens, city manager ...
The city’s historic preservation board has voiced its approval of the first phase of the North Lawrence Riverfront Development project, which includes a five-story building that will stretch along North Second Street. As part of its meeting Thursday, the city’s Historic Resources ...
Social advocate and community board member Joey Hentzler has filed for election to the Lawrence City Commission. Hentzler, 25, has lived in Lawrence since 2011, but he said he has thought of the city as his home for longer than that. When he was a teenager and had not yet come out as gay, he ...
The city’s recently completed $74 million sewage treatment plant has clogged, requiring the city to haul sludge to another plant in order to temporarily clear the plant's basins and make repairs. Though the plant is fully operational again, city staff says it's continuing to investigate what ...
Though city leaders continue to stress the need to widen the South Lawrence Trafficway, state officials still have no answer as to when the project will be funded and able to move forward. As part of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, Kansas Department of Transportation ...
City leaders will hear an update on the state’s efforts to widen or otherwise improve travel on the South Lawrence Trafficway, including the option of making the trafficway a toll road. As part of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, Kansas Department of Transportation ...
The city will hold an open house Tuesday for its offices located in the newly renovated space known as City Hall Riverfront. Municipal Court, the city prosecutor’s office, the Human Relations office and the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning and Development Services Department began operating ...
As the city embarks on a new venture in its affordable housing efforts — one involving the first changes to the local development code — some residents are asking questions about how those changes could affect neighborhoods. If approved, the proposed affordable housing density bonus would ...
One of the things I hope to do more of over the next year or so is have face-to-face conversations with more community leaders. While sitting across from my face is a lot to ask of someone, I’m hopeful to do such interviews with community leaders on a semi-regular basis. I’ll call it a ...
An Australia-based animal health company that received startup funding from both the City of Lawrence and Douglas County has been ordered to repay some of that money now that it has abandoned its local offices. However, city officials say there's no easy way for the local governments to ...
The local sustainability director told city leaders Tuesday that ambitious climate action is needed on the global, national and local levels, and that the city needs a plan to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Lawrence-Douglas County Sustainability Director Jasmin Moore told city ...
Recent changes have helped Lawrence significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and city leaders will soon discuss what else can be done to reduce the city’s impact on the environment. As part of its work session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive an update on the ...
Neighborhood association president and city incentives board member Ken Easthouse has filed for election to the Lawrence City Commission. Easthouse, a native of Lawrence, has been active in local government the past several years and ran unsuccessfully for the commission in 2017. Easthouse, ...