The Douglas County Commission is expected to meet only briefly Wednesday. Karrey Britt, a spokeswoman for the county, said the commission’s work items were all scheduled to be in the meeting's consent agenda. The consent agenda allows the commission to consider and approve several items in ...
As Douglas County planning and zoning officials received feedback on proposed changes to the county’s zoning codes, they found little pushback from rural residents regarding the updates. “Most of our feedback has been in favor (of the changes),” said Tonya Voigt, director of zoning for ...
Douglas County staffers want to spend time studying alternatives for a portion of the county's jail expansion project in hope of decreasing the population of inmates. But county commissioners on Wednesday said they would only allow them to do so if they did it with urgency. Commissioner ...
The Douglas County Commission may formally ask for state funding to help support the construction of a planned behavioral health crisis center. During its meeting on Wednesday, the commission will consider sending a letter to Gov. Laura Kelly to request $750,000 of state funding for the ...
Two summers ago, Kathleen Robson was used to losing electricity at her home for hours at a time — so much so that she planned her day around it. “I learned to do all my cooking or whatever I thought I needed before 11 in the morning because it would be off two or three hours,” said ...
A rural homeowner near Clinton Lake will be allowed to operate a boat and RV storage lot on her property, but the Douglas County Commission took steps Wednesday to make sure bus-like RVs would not be permitted. The commission on Wednesday approved, with a 2-1 vote, a conditional use permit ...
A rural homeowner near Clinton Lake wants to build a boat and RV storage lot on her property and open part of her home for vacation lodging. The homeowner, Connie Robertson, submitted two conditional use permit applications for the proposed plans, which the Douglas County Commission will ...
Monday's canvass of the 2019 general election results confirmed the winners for the Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence school board races. The Douglas County Clerk’s Office released the official results of the Nov. 5 election after the County Commission certified the results. The ...
Douglas County residents will have the opportunity on Saturday to learn how local officials are working to improve the production and availability of food in the area. The Douglas County Food Policy Council is inviting the public to learn about the group’s work during a reception where the ...
A rural Douglas County family now has the authority to build and operate an event center on their land, despite some neighbors voicing opposition to their plans. The Douglas County Commission unanimously approved issuing a conditional use permit to Eugene George and his family to build the ...
Douglas County law enforcement groups can take several steps to help keep people with serious mental illnesses from repeatedly ending up in jail. And some of those steps are already underway and could have an immediate effect. “A lot of these things have already been implemented,” said ...
A family hoping to open an event center on their rural property will try for a second time to earn the approval of the Douglas County Commission. The commission during its next meeting will consider awarding a conditional use permit to Eugene George and his family to build and operate the ...
The Lawrence and Douglas County community will soon have a housing campus dedicated to serving those with mental health and substance abuse disorders. However, a funding gap for the multimillion-dollar construction project is not yet resolved and could end up being the financial responsibility ...
Although the Douglas County Commission approved a $1.03 million project to upgrade security at the county jail during its meeting on Wednesday, one commissioner was concerned about the cost of the project. Commissioner Patrick Kelly asked why the project's proposed contract with B.A. Green ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider approving a construction project worth a little more than $1 million for security upgrades at the county jail. Douglas County Sheriff Ken McGovern asked the commission to approve the $915,000 contract with B.A. Green Construction to ...
My understanding of supply and demand mainly comes from simple experiments, like gathering my two kids at the dinner table and placing just one doughnut in between them. Indeed, the market is beautiful to watch. Leave it to free enterprise to figure out how to make a dining table fly across a ...
When Lawrence resident Cheryl Lester recently walked on a pathway to the Baker Wetlands Trail in southern Lawrence, she noticed graffiti markings on an underpass that were racist and anti-Semitic. In response, Lester asked Douglas County to not only remove the markings, but consider adding ...
Underpasses in southern Lawrence have recently been marked with graffiti, which may lead to action from the Douglas County Commission. During their Wednesday meeting, commissioners will discuss ways to hinder future graffiti, possibly by adding murals to the underpasses. In a memo to the ...
Douglas County prosecutors will no longer file criminal cases for simple marijuana possession, District Attorney Charles Branson announced Thursday. Branson said the decision, which was announced in a news release Thursday afternoon and is effective immediately, was made "after a careful ...
The Douglas County Commission signed off on the implementation of a new city-county comprehensive plan on Wednesday after a discussion about the wording of one of the plan's provisions. While considering Plan 2040, which outlines how the city of Lawrence and the county will consider growth and ...