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City leaders critical of proposed HERE parking plan Commission defers vote on issue By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
After a three-hour discussion Tuesday night, during which Lawrence’s five city commissioners expressed
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their distaste of a new proposed parking plan for the HERE @ Kansas development, the vote on the matter was deferred and the issue sent back to city planners. With a 5-0 vote, commis-
sioners tasked city staff with working again on the development — a luxury apartment and commercial project near Memorial Stadium — to ensure its proposed valet parking garage can be used practically. There were concerns about the width of
the parking spaces, which renderings showed to be a foot narrower than city code, and whether the system would be so inconvenient it would cause future tenants to park elsewhere in the already congested Oread neighborhood.
“I want this to succeed, but if we’re moving forward with this, we’re moving forward with something that doesn’t meet our code,” Commissioner Matthew Herbert said. Please see PARKING, page 5A
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Arts Center CEO to retire at end of year
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Apartments lead way in city growth
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Tuesday, the day after his AP interview, after he was shamed on social media as a “sexist” and “cave man” for telling women how to dress. In a written apology, he said he “meant
he new number to shoot for in the Lawrence construction industry is $227 million. No, contractors, the Lawhorn household has not decided to start construction on the muchdiscussed third wing of the shoe closet. Instead, $227 million is the record-breaking amount of new construction that took place in Lawrence in 2015. We already had reported that Lawrence had set a record for building activity in 2015, but we didn’t know the final number until the city closed the books on the year. Well, that’s now been done, and the latest report from City Hall shows the city issued building permits for $227.89 million worth of construction. That’s more than double the $99.7 million worth of projects that were started in 2014. The 2015 totals broke the previous building permit record that was set in 2013 when permits for $171.9 million worth of construction were issued. The actual amount of construction occurring in the city in 2015 was quite a bit higher than what was recorded by the city. The bulk of the public school construction projects were exempted from the city’s building permit process, so they don’t show up in these totals. As has long been the case, construction projects on the KU campus also don’t show up in the totals.
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LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER CEO SUSAN TATE, 53, will retire at the end of 2016. Tate, who took on the job in 2009, plans to spend more time with her family’s business interests. She will stay involved with the Arts Center as a consultant after retiring.
Susan Tate has led organization since 2009
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ly’s business interests, which she took We have a strategic plan and a on after her father’s recent death. vision for this year and for subseThe Lawrence Arts Center plans to quent years and we are absolutebegin the search for her replacement Susan Tate, CEO of the Lawrence in August and announce the new CEO ly committed to it and working on Arts Center, will retire at the end of by the end of 2016, said Joan Golden, the year. chairwoman of the Arts Center board it every day.” Tate, who has served as CEO since of directors. — Susan Tate, Lawrence Arts Center CEO 2009, plans to devote more time in Please see TATE, page 2A her retirement to managing her famiBy Joanna Hlavacek
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Women’s wear ‘distracts’ lawmakers across U.S. Kansas legislator drops widely scrutinized dress code guidelines
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Topeka (ap) — Republican Sen. Mitch Holmes clearly recalls when women have worn “over the top” attire during his decade in the Kansas Statehouse. “A blouse that came way past the rib cage was one of the most out-
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landish ones,” he told The Associated Press. Such women’s wear can distract from the legislative process, he said, explaining why a dress code was needed in his Ethics and Elections committee. Holmes dropped his guidelines on
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