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Parks officials recommending tobacco ban Proposal expected to go in front of City Commission next year
By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
ment’s advisory board Tuesday that a written proposal would be presented at their December meeting. It’s expected to go to the Lawrence City Commission early next year, he said. “This is not something new; it’s all over the country,” Shaw said. “I think it’s something
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is drafting a policy that aims to ban tobacco use on any of the department’s land, including all 54 parks. Interim Parks and Recreation Director Ernie Shaw told members of the depart-
that’s good for our city.” If approved by city commissioners, the ban would be implemented as a departmental policy and not a change to the city code. The policy would ban all tobacco products and “associated delivery devices,” Shaw said, including electronic ciga-
rettes and vaporizers. The city’s current smoking laws, enacted in 2004, make it illegal to smoke in any enclosed public spaces but not public outdoor areas. They do not explicitly ban e-cigarettes.
Costly bugs City parks official says ash borer infestation could cost $6 million to treat. 3A
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City OKs updates to Horizon 2020 plan
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FROM LEFT, ANDREW BEETS, 32, THE YOUNGEST MARINE IN ATTENDANCE, receives a piece of cake from Sgt. Maj. Jesse Pacheco, 91, the oldest Marine in attendance, as U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, watches at the 23rd annual Marine Corps birthday celebration Wednesday at Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics.
Dole Institute marks Marines’ 240th year “ Student vet lounge
By Sara Shepherd
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ansas University student Rhavean King’s reasons for becoming a U.S. Marine were on full display Tuesday during the annual U.S. Marine Corps birthday celebration at KU’s Dole Institute of Politics. “Their sense of camaraderie — their sense of brotherhood and sisterhood — is what gravitated me toward them,” King said, adding that she was drawn to the military branch’s 240year history as well. King, a KU track athlete from Memphis, Tenn., is a first-year law
Americans hold the idea of a strong and capable military in our hearts.” — U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins of Kansas
By Sara Shepherd
student who plans to leave for officer candidate school in May, she said. King was a future Marine in a crowd of primarily former and current Marines, veterans of other military branches and their families Tuesday at the Dole Institute.
The Kansas University Student Veterans Lounge will close when the Burge Union, where it’s housed, is shuttered this spring. But students who are veterans will get a new space just for them once the business school moves out of Summerfield Hall.
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The Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved proposed changes to Horizon 2020, the city’s long-range plan that guides policymaking and development decisions, at its meeting Tuesday night. If it gains approval from the Douglas County Commission today, a report listing the changes will be used by city planning staff to update the 321page plan. It’s estimated that Horizon 2020 will be updated by next fall. CITY “Needless to say, COMMISSION there’s work to be done,” said Mayor Mike Amyx, who co-chaired a steering committee that compiled a list of updates for the plan. “These amendments and items are going to help us bring Horizon 2020 up to this point in time and beyond, rather than being about 20 years behind.” Though commissioners did not debate the details of the changes Tuesday, their discussion brought up points of contention that Amyx said could be resolved later. He said any changes to Horizon 2020 would come back before the city and county commissions before the plan is officially amended. “No matter what the direction looks like right now, it’s probably not going to be final,” Amyx said. “It will be debated between the two bodies and the public. All of these action items will come back before us as we bring the comprehensive plan up to date.”
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Two consulting firms are in the running to conduct a third-party review of Douglas County’s Zoning and Codes Department. Page 3A
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