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Committee moves small parcel at rear of 47 Hamlet Street to full council as committee report amid ADU concerns

Lawrence City Council Housing Committee · February 10, 2026
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Summary

Planning staff told the Housing Committee that a 4,907-square-foot parcel at the rear of 47 Hamlet Street is ready for a yard‑sale sale with standard conditions; councillors asked whether accessory structures or ADUs would be permitted and requested a review of yard-sale conditions before final full‑council action.

Planning Director Dan McCarthy told the Housing Committee that a 4,907-square-foot parcel subdivided from the Frost School campus should be declared surplus and sold through the city’s long-standing yard-sale program, which typically sells adjacent, nonbuildable parcels at $1 per square foot with conditions to merge lots and record an ANR plan.

McCarthy described the yard-sale program as routine and said the proposed sale would…

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