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 Ernie Shaw, Interim Director of Parks and Recreation
DATE:	February 26, 2016
RE:	2016 March of Dimes Walk – Downtown April 30, 2016

Danielle Lang-Shaw has applied for a street event, temporary use of public right-of-way permit for The March of Dimes Walk on Saturday, April 30, 2016; benefitting the March of Dimes. The walk would begin at approximately 10:00 a.m. on Massachusetts Street adjacent to South Park, with walkers staging on the street beginning at about 9:50 a.m.. Participants would walk north in the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street to 8^th Street and continue northbound utilizing public sidewalks to 6^th Street and return back to South Park utilizing the public sidewalk (see attached map).

Staff is seeking City Commission approval of this event permit because the event will involve a rolling closure of the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street downtown from about 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 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 walkers pass by. In addition Police, Parks and Recreation, Public Works, Fire/Medical, Lawrence Transit, Downtown Lawrence, Inc., eXplore Lawrence, Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods and East Lawrence Neighborhood Associations all have reviewed this permit with no issues.

The police department has coordinated traffic control on this route for several previous events and has developed a plan that requires little to no police resources for traffic control.

ACTION

Approve a street event, temporary use of public right-of-way permit for use of Massachusetts, including the rolling closure of the northbound lane of Massachusetts Street downtown from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., on Saturday, April 30, 2016 for the March of Dimes Walk.