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City planning -- Kansas -- Lawrence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Records:

A City plan for Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P695
Overview

A 92-page city plan for the community of Lawrence, Kansas, prepared in 1930 by the Kansas City-based architectural landscape firm of Hare and Hare. The report includes recommendations regarding streets and transportation, public properties, schools, and zoning.

Dates: 1930

Johanna Kollmorgen papers of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 824
Overview

These are the working papers of Johanna Kollmorgen when she served as a member of the Lawrence-Douglas County (Kansas) Planning Commission. The Planning Commission is responsible for long-range comprehensive plans and development of the Lawrence-Douglas County, Kansas, land area. The collection includes the commission meeting minutes, staff reports and other supporting documentation from 1969-1979.

Dates: 1969 - 1979

Lawrence and Douglas County (Kansas) Planning collected materials

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 830
Overview

These materials relate to Lawrence-Douglas County, Kansas, planning initiatives in the latter part of the 20th century and development oversight. The collection includes photographs, photo-lithographic aluminum plates, and negatives, as well as printed material.

Dates: 1971 - 2001

Lawrence Fair Housing Coordinating Committee papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 174
Overview

The collection is arranged chronologically and contains minutes of meetings, clippings, petitions, and other manuscript materials documenting the activities of the organization.

Dates: 1959 - 1967

Lawrence, Kansas building survey

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P412
Overview

Contains a general survey conducted by Vieux Associates in 1981 at the request of the City-County Planning Department in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. The survey was conducted for a redevelopment project for downtown Lawrence and includes a list of historically and architecturally significant buildings.

Dates: 1981

Lawrence Kansas Common Council minutes

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P122
Overview

This collection contains eight pages of the 1854 minutes of the Lawrence Common Council meetings regarding discussion of city boundaries, laws and rights of residents, and a list of jurors, documenting the founding of the town of Lawrence, Kansas.

Dates: 1854

Personal papers of William (Bill) Mitchell

 Collection
Call Number: PP 649
Overview

William Mitchell served as the associate librarian of Special Collections at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, part of the University of Kansas Libraries, from 1967-1999. This collection includes professional and personal correspondence, various professional and personal papers, news clippings, and other materials recording local concerns Mitchell wrote about, as well as ephemera relating to Mitchell's professional life.

Dates: 1919 - 2013

Peter K. Curran letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P207
Overview

Letter to J. W. Newsom dated Lawrence, Kan., December 20, 1971. Letter concerns a proposed housing development adjoining the Country Club. Enclosure is an outline of objections to the development by residents of the neighborhood.

Dates: December 20, 1971

Public Works Plans for Douglas County, Kansas

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P694
Overview

A June 1935 report of public works plans for Douglas County, Kansas, prepared by a subcommittee of the Lawrence, Kansas Chamber of Commerce at the request of the Kansas State Planning Board. The report also describes progress toward objectives set forth in the 1930 report titled "A City Plan for Lawrence, Kansas," prepared by the firm of Hare and Hare.

Dates: June 1935

Recommended comprehensive development plan for downtown Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P705
Overview

A preliminary discussion draft, dated September 10, 1981, of a Recommended comprehensive development plan for downtown Lawrence, Kansas, prepared for the City of Lawrence by Robert B. Teska Associates, Inc. of Evanston, Illinois. Included with the report, transmitted to Johanna Kollmorgen, is a letter from Dean Palos (Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Office).

Dates: September 10, 1981 ; accompanying letter: November 3, 1981