Memorandum

City of Lawrence

City Manager’s Office

 

TO:

David L. Corliss, City Manager

FROM:

Diane Stoddard, Assistant City Manager

DATE:

May 5, 2014

CC:

 

Cynthia Wagner, Assistant City Manager

Britt Crum-Cano, Economic Development Coordinator

RE:

Lawrence Venture Park Street Names

 

Please place the following item on the consent agenda for May 13, 2014:

 

Adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 8987, changing the names of various streets within Lawrence VenturePark business park.

 

Background

When the former Farmland property, now Lawrence VenturePark, was platted, a name had not yet been selected for the business park and there were placeholders put in the plat for street names to determined later.

 

The Lawrence City Commission approved the naming of Lawrence VenturePark several months ago.  City staff has developed a logo and is in the process of placing signage at the business park advertising available lots. 

 

As the street work is progressing, it would now be an appropriate time to consider the formal names for streets within the Park.

 

Discussion

Staff suggests that the street currently platted as Street AA be renamed “O’Connell Road”.  This is the location of the new intersection where the new O’Connell Road would tie in with the existing O’Connell Road to the south.  Staff recommends that Street BB, a small street connecting the main east-west street through the park to the 23rd Street frontage road be renamed “Venture Park Way”.  Staff recommends that the major east-west street through the park, which connects into East Hills Business Park via Greenway Circle be named “VenturePark Drive”, and that the cul-de-sac street off of VenturePark Drive we named VenturePark Court.

 

A map shows the recommended new streets, along with the current street names reflected on the plat.  Having the new names in place when the streets open will avoid confusion between the old names on the plat and the new names and will also help with marketing materials.

 

Recommended Action

Adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 8987, changing the names of various streets within the new Lawrence VenturePark business park.