The mayor s proposed biennial budget includes $21 million in increased spending the first year driven by public safety, inflation, StarTran costs, heavy equipment purchases, affordable housing and South Haymarket Park.
An amendment to a city ordinance clarifies that mopeds, golf carts, motor vehicles, motorcycles, tractors, off-road vehicles, go-karts, riding lawn mowers, garden tractors, ATVs, snowmobiles and gas-powered bicycles are banned.
The City Council considered a land exchange with J.A. Woollam Co. in the Haymarket to create new parking areas to accommodate the city s new South Haymarket Park plans.
The Lincoln Skatepark Association talked with the community Wednesday night about how it will get the money for the new skate park coming to the Haymarket.