Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 09-17-2017
To: Mayor and City Council
From: City Manager's Office
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Presentation of the Upper Adams Creek Watershed Partnership Opportunity
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Background:
The Upper Adams Creek watershed corridor consists of an Adams Creek tributary that runs from the Broken Arrow Expressway near 9th Street (Lynn Lane) in a north by northeast manner through the Shops at Broken Arrow and the adjacent Park at Adams Creek developments to the Adams Creek confluence on the Greens at Broken Arrow golf course. The tributary begins in one of the community's most significant commercial districts that includes several key commercial businesses such as Target, Marshalls, Dick's Sporting Goods, Lowes, Olive Garden, Applebee's and most recently Ulta as well as many others. In addition, this watershed corridor has two (2) significant ecological and flood control components, the Parks at Adams Creek wetlands and the Fairway Park Regional Detention Facility. The regulatory wetlands is located immediately north of the expressway and west of the Cinemark Theatre and extends north to the southern edge of the Westwind subdivision between the Dick's Sporting Goods and Lowes business developments. The regional detention facility is located immediately across the street from the Broken Arrow High School. The above described properties are owned and maintained by the City of Broken Arrow.
It is crucial to note that Broken Arrow Public Schools owns property that abuts the City-owned lands. Their property essentially forms and completes a corridor from the Shops at Broken Arrow to Nienhuis Park nearly one and a half miles to the north.
Since 2008, the City has constructed and expanded the flood control capabilities of the regional detention facility through two (2) separate general obligation bond propositions. This past year, the city completed its efforts in connection to the...
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