The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday kickstarted the process to amend part of its comprehensive plan to allow for a single property to subdivide its land. The commissioners voted 2-1 to approve an amendment to Plan 2040, its joint comprehensive plan with the City of Lawrence, to change ...
Douglas County may soon make changes to its comprehensive plan to allow for a rural property owner to subdivide his land for residential purposes. The County Commission on Wednesday will consider an amendment to Plan 2040, its joint comprehensive plan with the City of Lawrence, to change the ...
Updated at 12:42 p.m. Thursday: Douglas County has joined a new multiyear initiative that aims to measurably reduce jail stays for people with serious mental illness, or SMI, and to track their connections to care. The “nationwide call to action,” called Set, Measure, Achieve, pushes for ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday laid to rest a long-debated plan to expand the local jail. Commissioners passed a resolution in January to move forward with the roughly $30 million expansion of the Douglas County Jail, but they recently asked to reexamine the project because of ...
This past week, Apple and Google launched similar versions of a new function built into phone software that allows public health agencies to anonymously inform people if they were in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The two tech giants developed the technology ...
About eight months after the Douglas County Commission approved a controversial expansion of its jail facility, the commissioners are now on the verge of formally abandoning the plan. The County Commission on Wednesday will consider repealing a resolution it approved in January that ...
Three weeks after announcing the creation of a 27-member task force dedicated to reviewing policies on local policing, the University of Kansas on Wednesday announced two public listening sessions and a town hall at which the public can bring concerns to the task force. Because of the ...
A mailer from the United States Postal Service about advance mail voting has recently reached Douglas County homes after causing some controversy in a neighboring state. But the information on the mailer doesn’t affect much for county voters, a local election official said Tuesday. The ...
The Douglas County Commission will not meet this week. Karrey Britt, a spokeswoman for the county, said the commissioners canceled their meeting for Wednesday because September is a five-week month. Normally, the commissioners meet each Wednesday evening, but they often cancel a meeting if ...
Douglas County’s plan to spend nearly $25 million of federal coronavirus relief funding has been accepted by the state. That includes business grant programs the County Commission created in the late stages of crafting its plan for its $24.9 million allotment of funds from the federal ...
Updated at 2:46 p.m. Wednesday The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday released for the first time a list of specific locations and case counts associated with outbreaks of COVID-19 across the state. Of the 177 active outbreaks the department is tracking, four currently ...
Local organizations in charge of millions of dollars in coronavirus relief funding will soon lay out their plans on how they will award the funds to Douglas County businesses. The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will discuss funding plans from local “umbrella” organizations that are ...
County leaders are poised to deny a rural landowner's request to develop her nearly 70-acre property just west of Lawrence into a residential subdivision. At its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission directed county staff to develop a future item for consideration that would ...
A rural Douglas County landowner hopes to change her agricultural land into a cluster development, which would allow for the land to be subdivided into several residential parcels. The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider Mary Wakeman’s request to rezone her property from ...
After talks of cutting the position to part-time, Douglas County’s first responder assistance coordinator has stepped down, according to the sheriff’s office. Paul Taylor’s last day with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was Friday, said Jenn Hethcoat, public information officer. He ...
Douglas County voters recently shattered a turnout record for a primary election, as thousands more votes were cast than in previous years. The huge increase in voting has led the County Clerk’s Office to prepare for an even larger general election, including adding more dropoff boxes for ...
Updated at 4:47 p.m. Thursday A longtime county leader will step down from her post at the end of the month. Douglas County Treasurer Paula Gilchrist, who was elected to a fourth term in 2016, has informed the County Clerk’s Office that she intends to retire on Monday. She has held the ...
A new public mural will be installed later this fall on a southern Lawrence underpass that was previously marked with racist graffiti. The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday approved a plan to allow Van Go, a local art-based social service organization, to place a mural on a support ...
A new public mural could be coming to a Douglas County underpass that was previously marked with racist graffiti. The County Commission on Wednesday will consider a plan to work with Van Go, a local art-based social service organization, to place a mural on a support structure of an underpass ...
Plans are taking shape to create a campground for homeless people that will provide access to toilets, showers, laundry facilities and social services. The location of the campsite is still undecided, but organizers say to be useful, it will need to be within the city and close to ...