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Search for new KU chancellor expected to be secretive By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com
By the time University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little leaves the office next summer, her successor probably already will have been selected.
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the candidates vying to become the university’s next leader. Instead, they’ll be told only who the ultimate selec— Jonathan Peters, KU assistant professor of journalism tion is, after that person has been hired — an increasingly But even with roughly nine KU community members common practice that not evmonths between now and and the public probably eryone in academia, or at KU, then to complete a search, won’t learn anything about supports.
The search for a public university president should not resemble the papal conclave.”
“The search for a public university president should not resemble the papal conclave,” said KU assistant professor of journalism Jonathan Peters, who specializes in the First
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ISSUES Apartment boom raises question: Has city allowed for too many? By Rochelle Valverde
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THE BAUER FARM APARTMENT COMPLEX, which rests along Bauer Farm Drive off of Sixth Street in West Lawrence, is among several large-scale apartment projects currently underway.
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GOING UP Over the past 10 years, Lawrence has added roughly 3,000 apartment units, but there’s room for that number to rise even more in the future.
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more units could be developed within Lawrence’s city limits under the current zoning.
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mong the already standing apartments in Lawrence, the lines have been chalked to allow for thousands more. But as construction cranes and multistory apartment complexes have joined the skyline, the question of whether the city is allowing for too many apartments has also arisen. About 2,500 apartments are currently in progress in Lawrence, and the city is currently zoned to allow for 6,000 more, according to the Multi-dwelling Inventory Report recently presented to the City Commission. At current construction rates, the land inventory allotted for apartments could account for decades of growth.
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City’s guest tax grants will favor events with regional pull By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com
The city grant program that helps support events such as the Old Fashioned Christmas Parade, the Free State Festival and the Busker Festival is getting a significant overhaul in how it awards funds. Changes to Lawrence’s Transient Guest Tax Grant Program will mean an event’s
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regional appeal, ecoguest tax grant pronomic impact and gram. ability to become selfThe advisory board sustaining will be key created a new rubric, considerations for which was approved whether it is awarded by the commission city funding. this week. The rubric “We definitely are is meant to give more looking for things that structure and consishave a pull factor,” said Herbert tency to the selection City Commissioner Matprocess, and awards thew Herbert, who also serves points for characteristics such on the advisory board for the as overnight visits and overall
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economic benefit, as well as enhancement of “the cultural vibrancy” of Lawrence. Megan Gilliland, the city liaison for the guest tax advisory board, presented the new rubric to commissioners at their meeting Tuesday. Another new consideration for the grant will be the event’s leverage, which is based on whether the event has other financial commitments and supporting resources.
“(The board) didn’t want this to be just a revolving loan account necessarily for events year after year after year,” Gilliland told commissioners. “They felt like the program should be used kind of as a starter, as something to help grow a program, and over time they should be able to hopefully sustain themselves.”
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