City commission agenda for November 24

Bottom line: City commissioners will consider several ordinances for the Lawrence Wesleyan Church development near 31st Street and Kasold Drive. Background: Commissioners are asked to approve annexation of 34 acres of farm ground southeast of 31st and Kasold Drive and ...

• Resident hopes to start rickshaw business in downtown Lawrence, pending city approval
  Lawrence resident Shane Powers is hoping to open a rickshaw business in downtown by the spring, if he can convince city leaders to create a new ordinance that allows for such a business.
• Lawrence city commissioner recovering at LMH following procedure to relieve chest pains
  Lawrence City Commissioner Mike Amyx is recovering at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after undergoing a procedure related to chest pains this morning.
• Community shelter leaders moving forward with shelter plan despite setback at planning commission
  Leaders of the Lawrence Community Shelter said Tuesday they are sticking with plans to build a new homeless shelter along East 23rd Street, despite the project receiving an unexpected delay from planning commissioners.
• Plan stalls to move homeless shelter
  Not yet. Leaders of the local homeless shelter did not win the big victory they had hoped for Monday night as Lawrence-Douglas County Planning commissioners declined to act on plans for a new shelter in eastern Lawrence.

• Library fundraiser offers hole-in-one family fun
• Week of reading to preschoolers to begin
• City Commission agenda for November 17, 2009
• City moves forward on laboratory building
• Commission agrees to rezone property
• Bidding dates set on stimulus projects
• Scouting report: It’s cookie season
• Commissioner wants street work to be done by local unemployed people, but federal regulations disagree
• City hopes to get grant money to make safer path between KU campus and downtown