Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Public Works Department

 

TO:

Chuck Soules, Public Works Director

 

FROM:

Mark Thiel, Assistant Public Works Director

 

CC:

Tarik Khatib, Chief of Police

Ernie Shaw, Interim Director of Parks and Recreation

 

DATE:

February 27, 2014

 

RE:

The Kappa Delta 5K Shamrock Run – April 13, 2014

                                    

 

Please place this item on the March 11, 2014 City Commission meeting agenda.

 

Nicole Staples has applied for a temporary use of public right-of-way permit for The Kappa Delta 5K Shamrock Run – April 13, 2014, benefitting the Kansas Children’s Service League and Prevent Child Abuse America. The race would begin at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Massachusetts Street adjacent to South Park, with runners staging on the street beginning at about 7:50 a.m. Participants would run in the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street to 7th Street, then turn east and run through East Lawrence until looping back onto Massachusetts Street at 15th Street (see attached map). Runners would then travel in one northbound lane of Massachusetts Street back to South Park for the finish.

 

Staff is seeking City Commission approval of this event permit because the race will involve a rolling closure of the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street downtown from about 8:00 a.m. – 8:25 a.m. Parking on Massachusetts Street would not be prohibited, although vehicles parked on the east side of Massachusetts Street would not be able to leave for a few minutes as runners pass by. (see attached traffic management plan – prepared by the Lawrence Police Department)

 

The police department has coordinated traffic control on this route for several previous races and have developed a plan that requires little to no police resources for traffic control. All barricades and staff will be solely provided by the applicant. In addition coordination with Parks and Recreation, Fire/Medical, Lawrence Transit, Chamber of Commerce, and Downtown Lawrence, Inc. was completed with no issues identified.

 

Action Requested

Approve a temporary use of public right-of-way, event permit for use of various city streets, including the rolling closure of the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street downtown from 8:00 a.m. – 8:25 a.m., on Sunday April 13, 2014 for the Kappa Delta 5K Shamrock Run.