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Working group approves site-selection criteria for Lawrence downtown bus hub after debate over restrooms, parking and historic-area impacts
Summary
A Lawrence site-selection working group voted to forward proposed criteria for a downtown bus hub to the city commission after discussing public feedback, restroom access, parking impacts, historic-context constraints and how to weight evaluation factors; the group approved the criteria and will present them to the commission in August.
Members of a Lawrence site-selection working group approved a package of evaluation criteria for a proposed downtown bus hub and agreed to forward the standards to the city commission for consideration at its first August meeting.
The group’s presenter (Speaker 2) told attendees that the public comment period had closed and staff received 117 online survey responses: "So, our public comment period ended on Friday," the presenter said, and reported that roughly 12% of responses opposed the project while most respondents supported advancing the criteria as written. The presenter also said the step-3 survey remains open through Aug. 15 and staff will prepare site packets and scoring to share before the next meeting.
The meeting focused on several recurring public concerns that shaped the final discussion. The first major debate centered on whether restrooms on a selected site should be driver-only or include public access. The presenter described the baseline: "These are individual stalls. They're large enough for wheelchair access. They have a changing…
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