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City to decide apartment parking issue
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Developers want residents to move in before required number of spaces are built By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
The parking conundrum at the under-construction HERE @ Kansas apartment and retail project will be dissected at City Hall on Tuesday, when city commissioners will be asked to decide on the developers’ petition to fill the apartments before it has the number of parking spaces city code requires. HERE LLC, the Chicago-based development group behind CITY the $75 million apart- COMMISSION ment project near Memorial Stadium, learned in October that the manufacturer of its planned automated parking garage — one of the points of the project that helped secure an incentives package from the city — had filed for bankruptcy protection. Developers had to think up a new parking plan, for which they will have
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WORK BY KANSAS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY WRITER KIJ JOHNSON has been translated into other languages, and she is expecting to release a new novella sometime this year.
Writer’s penchant for the unexpected has international appeal By Sara Shepherd • Twitter: @saramarieshep
professor of creative writing at KU whose science ficand never write the same tion/fantasy work continues thing twice. She aims to take to reach more international people away — but not necaudiences. essarily completely. She’s had work released “Fiction is manipulative,” in numerous foreign she said. “Fiction is trying to languages over the years, craft an experience for some- she said, but most recently body that they don’t know had a collection of stothey want, but find out they ries released in Japanese want in the middle.” Please see WRITER, page 2A Johnson, 56, is an assistant
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specially now, in a world where people can get replacement hearts and some cars even drive themselves, there’s a narrow line between fantasy and reality, says Kij Johnson. Johnson likes to waver over it, experiment with the expectations of her genre,
Please see PARKING, page 2A
As temperatures drop, be wary of car thefts, police say By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson
Lawrence police have seen an increase in car thefts over recent months, a common occurrence during the winter season. Since November, at least five vehicles left running were stolen in Lawrence, said Lawrence Police
spokeswoman Kim Murphree. Only two of the stolen vehicles left running were recovered. As the temperature drops, motorists are more likely to leave their vehicles running and unoccupied — an easy target for thieves, said Lawrence Police Sgt. Trent McKinley. “Cold weather often
RICH JOHNSON, owner of Rich Johnson Automotive at 1410 N. Third St., works on a car that wouldn’t start because of the recent cold weather. Johnson says motorists should allow their cars to warm up before driving them during the winter months. But they should also be careful and not leave their vehicles running and unoccupied, making them an easy target for thieves.
Please see THEFTS, page 2A
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results in many people leaving their vehicles unattended while they warm up or while people quickly duck into a convenience store, day care locations or make some other type of quick stop,” McKinley wrote in an email. Many thieves know
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