Memorandum

City of Lawrence

City Manager’s Office

 

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:

January 6, 2014

 

RE:

The Home Run 5K – Memorial Day, Monday May 26 2014

 

 

Please place this item on the January 21, 2014 City Commission meeting agenda.

 

Loring Henderson has applied for a temporary use of public right-of-way permit for The Home Run 5K on Monday, May 26, 2014 (Memorial Day), benefitting Family Promise and the Lawrence Community Shelter. 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 St to 7th St, then turn east and run through East Lawrence until looping back onto Massachusetts St at 15th St (see attached map). Runners would then travel in one northbound lane of Massachusetts St 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 St would not be prohibited, although vehicles parked on the east side of Massachusetts St 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 has developed a plan that requires little to no police resources for traffic control. All barricades and staff will be solely provided by the applicant.

 

ACTION:       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 Monday, May 26, 2014, for The Home Run 5K.