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MONDAY • NOVEMBER 17 • 2014
HORIZON 2020
AFRAID TO COME HOME
People’s wish list: More bikes, less sprawl
In six months, one homicide and another possible one
Board weighs citizens’ wants in rewriting vision for Lawrence’s, county’s future By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw
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CINDY HELM, A RESIDENT OF CEDARWOOD APARTMENTS, talks Friday about the precautions she takes entering and leaving her building at the apartment complex near Cedarwood Avenue and 24th Street, where one homicide and another possible one have taken place in the past six months.
Cedarwood residents cite fear, mismanagement “We stick together,” Helm said. “We have to follow our own safety Twitter: @caitlindoornbos precautions.” indy Helm is terrified to She doesn’t open the door to leave her apartment. With strangers. Her deadbolt is always two possible homicides about locked. And her brother-in-law is the 100 feet from each other in only one to take her dogs, Kujo and her apartment complex over a Chevy, out for walks in the dark. six-month period, Helm doesn’t go Helm lives in the Cedarwood outside alone. Apartments building at 1727 W. 24th By Caitlin Doorbos
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St., where police suspect foul play was involved in the death of woman whose body was found Nov. 9. Just behind Helm’s building to the east is a Cedarwood Apartments duplex where resident Patrick Roberts was shot and killed during an alleged aggravated robbery in March. Please see AFRAID, page 8A
Douglas County residents still love downtown Lawrence, don’t much like urban sprawl, and sure wish it was easier to find affordable housing. A joint city-county board took away On the committee: those themes and a l Lawrence Mayor few more as it tries to Mike Amyx figure out how Horil Douglas County zon 2020 — the city Commissioner Nancy and county’s longThellman range plan — should l Lawrence be rewritten. The schools Superintencommittee now is set dent Rick Doll to start studying posl Planning sible changes to the Commissioner plan, but there may Stan Rasmussen be one larger task l Planning still left on its plate: Commissioner formulating a vision Clay Britton for the community. l John Gascon “Horizon 2020 l Bill Ackerly is a fairly technil Scott Zaremba cal document,” said l Lisa Harris Douglas County Commissioner Nancy Thellman, a co-chair of the committee. “But I think it can be aspirational and inspirational. It should be a document where we set out the type of community we want to be. It should help us aim higher.” Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx, who also co-chairs the committee, said figuring out Please see WISH, page 2A
Mental health treatment required to get this rent subsidy “
By Sara Shepherd
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center has a program for people like DoMoe, who need more than just financial help to maintain stable housing. The HOME Tenant — Charlotte Knoche, director of housing assistance for the Housing Authority Based Rental Assistance program — part of Bert Nash’s maintain housing worse. os all the time, drama coming Community Support Services “It was chaos,” DoMoe said. from every direction. There for people with severe and per“It was just darkness and cha- was no letting up.” sistent mental illness — pro-
They have a greater success rate because they have access to caseworkers who can help them Ruby DoMoe spent years when they run into difficulties.” Twitter: @saramarieshep
bouncing from hospital to homeless shelter to friends’ couches to battered women’s shelter and back again. That lifestyle only made her mental illness worse. Which made her ability to
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vides a rent subsidy bolstered by intensive mental health treatment. “There are strings attached,” said Bert Nash case manager Eddie Valez, who works with DoMoe. To get the rent subsidy, residents must participate in Bert Please see SUBSIDY, page 2A
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Kansas University is nearing the homestretch of preparing for its upcoming, once-a-decade accreditation review, including public comment. Page 3A
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