From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 2, 1989:

At their next meeting, the Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission was to discuss whether to recommend lowering the current speed limit of 30 mph to 25 mph throughout the city’s residential areas. Some streets already had an even lower limit of 20 mph, and whether that would be raised to 25 in the interests of consistency was one of the topics to be discussed. “We’ve had several requests from several neighborhoods to lower speed limits,” said Jim Black, a traffic commission member. “Rather than take this on a piecemeal basis, we thought we might discuss lowering it on a citywide basis.” Old West Lawrence residents had succeeded in getting city commissioners to lower the speed limit there to 20 mph; University Place residents had petitioned successfully to have their limit lowered to 25; and people living on Lawrence Avenue had convinced city officials to lower their speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. “You go from one neighborhood to the next and the next, and one could be 20, another 25 and another 30 mph,” Black said. “We’d like to see it more uniform, I believe.”