Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 02-02-2016
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Office of the City Attorney
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Consideration, discussion and possible preview of an ordinance temporarily establishing an alternative process for the review and issuance of building permits for buildings or structures designed for residential uses and proposed for location in downtown Broken Arrow, more specifically described as the one-half square mile area south of Kenosha Street, north of Houston Street, east of Elm Place and west of First Street; providing for an appeal process; providing effective and repeal dates; providing severability; and declaring an emergency
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Background:
Downtown Broken Arrow has reinvented itself several times with the adoption of the 2005 Downtown Master Plan, establishment of the Rose District, and ongoing beautification and infrastructure projects. Establishing an Arts and Entertainment District in the downtown area, has resulted in the attraction of new mixed use developments, including restaurants, retail stores, residential lots and offices along Main Street and within the Rose District. The current downtown maintains a core of museums, a farmers market, churches, city offices, long established banks, restaurants, clothing retail, furniture specialty stores, manufacturing, aviation simulation and many other businesses. Over 100 businesses, churches and services are located in the corridor around downtown and within the Rose District.
Additionally, the downtown area includes more than twelve (12) different residentially platted subdivisions that were recorded in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Residential structures within these subdivisions are in varying conditions. Staff believes that residential development and growth in the Rose District should be managed in order to provide lasting benefits to the land area within the immediate vic...
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