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County says homeless project near community shelter would be too ‘out of sight, out of mind,’ lists other reasons for opposing use of county-owned land

County officials oppose putting a new homeless project on county-owned land by the Lawrence Community Shelter, in part, because the site isn’t visible enough in the community and is too near the Douglas County Jail. A county spokeswoman on Wednesday said those were two of four strong ...

County says it misspoke when it said it hadn’t looked at county-owned property for homeless project; review was done and produced ‘strong reservations’

In the course of one day, Douglas County officials have changed their tune on whether they think a proposed village project for the homeless would be appropriate on county-owned land behind the Lawrence Community Shelter. On Monday, a top county official said county staff had never researched ...