David Lewis Beck appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for injunctive relief to prevent the City of Blue Rapids, Kansas, from removing nuisance conditions on his property. Beck asserts the district court erred in determining the conditions were nuisances. But those factual matters were undisputed at trial. Finding Beck has not shown the district court erred, Kansas Court of Appeals affirms.
As overnight temperatures drop into the teens, there is still no place for the up to 200 people who are living unsheltered in Lawrence to sleep that is fully protected from the elements. While the city is working to set up its emergency winter shelter, it is still in the process of hiring staff, and there are no plans to open the shelter ahead of the previously scheduled date of Dec. 1. Lawrence Community Shelter leaders have said LCS is not able to increase its capacity without more funding, and the shelter continues to provide beds for only 50 people.
Source: LJWorld
Kansas has been allocated about $1.5 billion in the first year of since the federal government provided an infusion of infrastructure money, primarily targeted on bridge and road construction. The White House announced to-date funding totals on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the bipartisan infrastructure law. … Kansas is in line for more money for roads and bridges, with a formula projecting $2.8 billion over five years. … More than $28 million is going to Kansas airports. Kansas is also getting more than $23 million for ports and waterways. … Kansas will receive at least $100 million for high-speed internet coverage.
Source: CJonline
A growing number of people in Salina are hoping the city will reconsider a ban on having pit bulls in the community as a petition is slowly gathering the signatures it needs to go before the City Commission. The group Salinans Against BSL, or breed specific legislation, led by Debrah Corrales and Tyler Sartain, has spent the past several months at various locations around Salina collecting signatures for a city ordinance which would repeal the 2004 ordinance enacted by the commission which bans specific breeds of dogs, pit bulls, from the city. “We’ve been thinking about an (official) petition for (awhile),” Sartain said.
Source: Salina Journal
KANcycle, a bike sharing program through OCCK Transportation, has updated its system to be more user-friendly via a mobile app. The new offering enables riders to plan a multimodal trip and unlock a bike in just a few steps in the Transit app. As a worldwide service, the Transit app allows users to navigate public transit with accurate real-time predictions, trip planning, step-by-step navigation and convenient payments. Now, Salina’s local bike sharing program can be viewed and accessed through the app.
Source: Salina Journal
The town of Colby is on its way to having a new hospital. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture officially announced that it is lending more than $108 million to the project. Citizens Health says it wants to expand critical health care services. The new facility will incorporate operations of the current hospital, Citizens Medical Center, and Family Center for Health Care clinic under one roof. Work has already started. Crews broke ground for the new hospital two weeks ago. It is south of the existing hospital that was built in 1982.
Source: KSN-TV
Phase one of a $10 million “Farm-to-School” initiative program begins in Pittsburg. Community Green Farms is partnering with Leafy Green Farms to provide ten hydroponic farms to ten schools in southeast Kansas. Typically, food travels 1,500 miles from a farm to your plate. But, Leafy Green Farms is known as “hyper-organic,” which means it can be grown locally and consumed within 100 miles. Food grown in the hydroponic farms will be used for school meals. “Leafy Green Farms was started with the idea of moving the nutritional needle here in southeast Kansas. We don’t believe that income should dictate nutritional levels, especially in children. So we began our farm and started our proof of concept farm at Pittsburg High School to show that farms can be in rural areas where children can start growing food year-round and provide better nutrition for the entire community,” said Brad Fourby, Founder of Leafy Green Farm.
Source: KSNF/KODE
Can Emporia have two convention centers in town? According to Emporia Main Street Director Casey Woods, the answer is yes — if they are placed in the right areas. Next question: will Emporia have two convention centers? That answer hinges on a potential hotel-convention center in northwest Emporia and longstanding plans for the so-called Breckenridge Hotel and Convention Center downtown, which may well be halted if the property sells and new ownership moves in a different direction.
Source: KVOE Emporia Radio
After two hours of discussion, a public hearing and much angst over perceived threat of eminent domain, the Shawnee City Council this week approved a special taxing district in a largely undeveloped area on the western side of the city. In so doing, the council’s 6-2 vote gave a blessing to a novel use for tax increment financing, a tool most often used to the benefit of developers. The new Hickok-Zarah district, which encompasses 2.58 square miles between Monticello Road and Woodland Drive, is set up in a similar way to more traditional, developer-oriented TIFs.
Source: Shawnee Mission Post
Douglas County leaders will hold a community meeting to discuss the process of moving to five commissioner districts. Voters in the Nov. 8 election voted roughly 61% to 39% to add two additional commissioner districts to the current three. During the meeting, “County Clerk Jamie Shew will provide an overview of the process for moving to five districts. There will be an opportunity for the public to weigh in on the districts during roundtable discussions at the meeting,” according to information from the county. “The Board of County Commissioners will adopt a resolution outlining the new districts before or on Jan. 1, 2023. All of the districts need to be contiguous and have the same population size.”
Source: The Lawrence Times
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