From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 26, 1989:

• A heat wave was bringing record temperatures to Lawrence this week. The previous day’s high of 92 degrees had shattered the 40-year-old record of 87, according to the Kansas University weather service. Another record had fallen the day before that, with a high of 90 degrees breaking the old mark of 87 set in 1965. Even the overnight lows had been breaking heat records, with the previous day’s low staying at 70, which was 5 degrees warmer than the old record. Forecasters were expecting cooler temperatures to return by the weekend, with highs predicted in the 60s.
• A 45- acre tract in southwest Lawrence was to be rezoned to allow construction of a 10-building apartment complex, provided developers met 16 separate conditions. The Lawrence City Commission had approved the rezoning by a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Mike Rundle dissenting, for the land near 31st and Kasold. The rezoning would allow Golden Valley Inc. to develop a 220-unit apartment complex just east of Yankee Tank Creek, near the Prairie Meadows neighborhood and adjacent to Southern Parkway Townhomes. Representatives from neighborhood associations in the area had protested the rezoning, arguing that the apartment complex did not fit in with the character of their neighborhood, that their homes would not be adequately screened from the complex, and that an adjoining drainage basin would become a repository for trash and would not be adequately maintained by the apartment management. Using these objections as the basis of their conditions, commissioners said developers were required to decrease two of the buildings from three stories to two, place lighting in such a way that it pointed away from the neighborhoods, plant a buffer zone of tall trees, and keep the drainage channel free of litter or face city fines.