LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH CENTER
File #: 16-774    Name:
Type: Preview Ordinance Status: Adoption
File created: 7/8/2016 In control: Broken Arrow City Council
On agenda: 8/2/2016 Final action:
Title: Consideration, discussion, and possible preview of Ordinance No. 3439, an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 3410, which temporarily established 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, in an area more specifically described as the one-half square mile south of Kenosha Street, north of Houston Street, east of Elm Place and west of First Street, provided for an appeal process, effective and repeal dates, and severability; said amendment to extend the effective date of Ordinance No. 3410 to allow additional time for approval and implementation of the proposed downtown overlay district; and declaring an emergency
Attachments: 1. amended building moratorium ordinance.pdf, 2. Exhibit A.pdf
Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 8-02-16

To: Mayor and City Council
From: Office of the City Attorney
Title:
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Consideration, discussion, and possible preview of Ordinance No. 3439, an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 3410, which temporarily established 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, in an area more specifically described as the one-half square mile south of Kenosha Street, north of Houston Street, east of Elm Place and west of First Street, provided for an appeal process, effective and repeal dates, and severability; said amendment to extend the effective date of Ordinance No. 3410 to allow additional time for approval and implementation of the proposed downtown overlay district; 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 ...

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