Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Public Works Department

 

TO:

Charles F. Soules, P.E., Public Works Director

FROM:

Mark Thiel, Assistant Public Works Director

CC:

Tarik Khatib, Chief of Police

Mark Bradford, Fire Medical Chief

Bob Nugent, Transit Administrator

Ernie Shaw, Interim Director of Parks and Recreation

DATE:

March 12, 2015

RE:

2015 Tour of Lawrence – June 26 – 28, 2015

 

On March 31st the City Commission approved a temporary use of right of way, street event permit for the 2015 Tour of Lawrence bicycle race event. Recently the event organizers have made an additional request to close city parking lot #14 on Friday, June 26, 2015 (See request and see map). This lot is within the already approved closure zone and was planned for no access in our out during the event (see original approved event permit). This additional approval would give the event organizers the ability to post event no parking signs in the city lot prior to the event advising parkers that the lot would be closed beginning Friday, June 26, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Their objective is to have no cars in this lot during the event; they would also use the lot to set up portions of the event activities.

 

This additional closure and request has been reviewed by all affected agencies with no adverse impact. All other previously approved conditions of the permit remain in effect and the same as approved on March 31, 2015.

 

Street Sprint – Friday, June 26, 2015 (downtown)

The CVB has requested a Temporary Use of Public Right-of-Way Permit for the use of various city streets for the street sprint, the downtown criterium. The street sprint event would consist of a series of short sprints on Vermont Street from just south of 7th Street to just south of 8th Street. Racers would cross the finish line at 8th Street then return to the starting line area by working their way back along Vermont Street to the start line.

 

For the street sprint, the 700 block and part of the 800 block of Vermont Street would be entirely closed from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m on Friday, June 27. The 100 block of West 8th Street (between Massachusetts and Vermont Streets) would be closed from 2:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. and the western half of the 200 block of West 8th Street (from Vermont west to the alley) would be closed from 3:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. Message board will be placed at strategic locations in west and east Lawrence to alert traffic of the downtown event.

 

ACTIONS

If appropriate, approve a revised temporary use of right of way street event permit for the 2015 Tour of Lawrence for the additional closure of city parking lot #14 on Friday June 26, 2015 from 3:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.