Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Planning Department

TO:	Mike Wildgen
FROM:	Lisa Pool, City/County Planner
CC:	Linda M. Finger David Corliss Debbie Van Saun
Date:	December 13, 2005
RE:	UPR-09-06-05: Lawrence Community Shelter Protest Petition

A protest petition has been submitted for the above-referenced Lawrence Community Shelter UPR application. The petition is valid, with 21% of property owners within the 200-foot required notification area submitting valid signatures. In addition, some of the signatures do not count toward the petition’s validity for one of the following reasons: the signatures were not submitted within the statutory required 14 day time period after the November 16 public hearing at the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission meeting, the property owner(s) is located outside the 200-foot required notification area, or the petition was signed by only one of multiple property owners for a legally described property.

The following property owners submitted valid petitions:

• Phillip S. Hemphill/ Clara Hemphill
• Walter J. Lister Sr., Trustee
• John David Seal

The following property owners submitted petitions that did not count toward the petition validity determination:

• John B. Crawford
• Phillip D. Dwyer
• Michael A. Jacobson/ Mary P. Jacobson
• Lois R. Schneider
• Bob Schumm
• Jarvis L. Stirn/ Sarah M. Stirn
• Joe B. Stroup/ Kala L. Stroup

Due to the validity of the protest petition, approval of the requested UPR requires a ¾ vote of all the members of the City Commission (4 of 5 Commissioners).