Downtown Lawrence residents identify dozens of issues facing downtown as part of master plan workshop

The list of challenges facing downtown compiled by a group of Lawrence residents was long and varied, but from it emerged some consensus.

A firm hired by the city is hosting a series of community workshops this week to gather input for the city’s new Downtown Master Plan, which will shape the future of downtown Lawrence for the next 15 to 20 years. As part of a workshop Monday evening for downtown and adjacent neighborhoods, attendees came up with a list of 45 issues facing downtown Lawrence.
Nik Davis, principal of the community planning firm Houseal Lavigne Associates, then asked the workshop’s approximately 75 attendees to vote on the three most important issues. Davis said that Houseal Lavigne would look at all the issues, but that the voting was meant to help prioritize certain aspects of the plan.