From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 25, 1971:

At a recent meeting of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, more than 150 people had spoken out vehemently for and against zoning changes proposed for three areas. The combined city-county planning board, in existence for only 2 1/2 years in 1971, had never seen such a large turnout at one of their meetings. One proposal was to rezone from multi-family residential to single-family residential an area bounded by Sixth, Ninth, Michigan and Illinois. One Lawrence developer said that the neighborhoods kept going downhill “and we keep passing up all these lots in the inner city. Then we go out to ‘175th Street and Plowed Ground’ and build new sewers and new water lines and new streets.” Attendees for and against rezoning also pounced on the commission’s proposal to rezone an area of 63 acres at the southwest corner of Peterson Road and Iowa Street. The third proposal involved a rezoning of an area known as Marvonne Meadows Addition.