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City to decide gun range location By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
Lawrence City Commissioners will have the final say Tuesday on where in the city a new, private gun range will be located. Because the businessman behind the idea submitted plans for two locations, commissioners will decide whether to rezone the shooting range in what’s currently an industrially zoned building at 1021 E. 31st St., near the 31st and Haskell intersection, or let him use a backup location in The Malls shopping center at 23rd and Louisiana streets. City planners and many Lawrence residents have voiced concern about The CITY Malls location — a COMMISSION “highly active center” where the shooting range would be bounded by a yoga studio on one side and a barber shop on the other, according to city documents. But the Lawrence school board, Boys and Girls Club and the Prairie Park Neighborhood Association have argued against locating it off East 31st Street. The existing building just northwest of the 31st and Haskell intersection is adjacent to the Prairie Park neighborhood and within 1,000 feet of the Lawrence College and Career Center and the proposed site of a Boys and Girls Club teen center. “There’s an expectation we provide a safe, positive place for kids,” said Duane LaFrenz, a member of the Boys and Girls Club board of directors, in February. “If a teen center is going to be successful, there can be no doubt that this is a safe and positive environment.”
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THE CITY COMMISSION WILL REVIEW NEW URBAN AGRICULTURE GUIDELINES that would allow more kinds of animals to be raised in the city, including miniature goats, sheep, rabbits and bees. Ducks and hens have been allowed since 2012.
Goats, sheep may be your new neighbors under proposed city code “ By Nikki Wentling
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Growing and raising your own food can be “empowering” — and vital for some households in achieving food security, said Helen Schnoes, food systems coordinator for Douglas County. And now, Lawrence residents are close to getting more options for what they can grow, what animals they can raise, and how they can distribute their homegrown goods.
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The City Commission ... we’re putting our own unique Lawrence spin on tasked Lawrence’s planning it because we’re Lawrence, and that’s what we do.” staff with creating a set of
— Helen Schnoes, food systems coordinator for Douglas County The Lawrence City Commission will soon review guidelines for urban agriculture that would allow, among other things, goats, sheep and bee colonies within city limits. “It’s in line with a national conversation on what it means to produce food in the city,” Schnoes said. “Nothing
is out of line with other cities when thinking about how to support citizens’ interest in expanding local food systems and allowing for smallscale urban farming production. But we’re putting our own unique Lawrence spin on it because we’re Lawrence, and that’s what we do.”
urban agriculture codes back in June. At the time, code enforcement had found violations at a property in East Lawrence, where the owner had established an urban agriculture operation. Mary Miller, a city planner working on the project, said the current city code is mostly mum about what residents can do agriculturally. Please see ANIMALS, page 5A
School board to vote on whether to purchase 5,000 iPads By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
The Lawrence school board will vote at its meeting today whether to approve a school district proposal to purchase 5,000 iPads. Board members were not convinced
iPads were preferable to laptops when the proposal was introduced at their meeting last month. “I do think board members want some more specific information about why that’s the right choice, and some comparisons for why that’s
a better choice than options that other districts have had success with,” school board President Vanessa Sanburn said following the meeting. The iPads would be acquired through a leasepurchase agreement with Apple that totals about
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school level, where every student would be issued the device next school year. If approved by the board, the district’s more than 2,400 middle school students would be the first grade level to have Please see SCHOOLS, page 2A
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$3.2 million. As part of the agreement, the district would pay an interest rate of about 1 percent over a four-year period, which amounts to about $47,000 in interest payments. In addition to about $2.5 million for the 5,000
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