Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 12-05-2017
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Office of the City Attorney
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Consideration, discussion, and possible approval of a reasonable accommodation for the Oxford House located at 113 West Norman Street, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012, to allow unrelated residents to live as the functional equivalent of a family and waive the limitation on the number of unrelated persons who may reside together for this residence
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Background:
Oxford House is an entity that provides an opportunity for recovering alcoholics and substance abusers to maintain their sobriety in a supportive living environment that does not require the provision of treatment or counseling services. The City of Broken Arrow has an Oxford House located at 113 West Norman Street, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012, within a residential neighborhood. Their representatives have indicated that they believe that Oxford House is entitled to a reasonable accommodation to the City's zoning ordinance which would allow it to remain in a residential neighborhood. The accommodation would be to allow eleven (11) unrelated people to reside together in the Oxford House.
Information from Oxford House indicates that it provides safe and sober housing for persons in recovery from alcoholism and substance abuse. In this regard, Oxford House, Inc., the national organization, assists in establishing housing for recovering addicts and alcoholics that is financially self-supported, democratically run, and immediately expels anyone who uses drugs or alcohol, inside or outside the house. There is no paid staff, counseling, therapy, or house manager involved in the operation of the house. In Oxford house, the group behaves like any family and makes group decisions based on democratic procedures. Oxford House is nothing more than a single-family residence.
Oxford House residents are encouraged to rent sing...
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