Oh my goodness.

Called a broken air city council meeting to order.

Yes, we're normally waiting for Councillor Green, and it was my fault.

So sorry about that.

Umvocation by Pastor Pittman.

Let's bow and pray together.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for blessing this great city.

Uh we're uh in awe at the goodness that you have bestowed upon us and and uh the prosperity, good things that have happened.

Um we pray that uh as a city we would humble ourselves and call upon you, that we would honor you uh in all of our actions and all of our words.

Uh I pray as a city that we would love and take care of our neighbors that broken arrow would be a place of unprecedented care and of community.

We pray tonight uh especially for the protection of those who are protecting us for our first responders for fire for police.

We pray God that you are over them.

We pray for uh that the provision of the needs of our city and uh even with the vote tonight that you would go before and that you would take care of all of our needs.

We pray tonight, especially for wisdom for the city leaders for decisions that are made tonight that you would go uh before them and uh that you would lead them in everything that they do.

We pray all this in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, sir.

Roll call.

Green here for here parks, here wimpy.

Here, please stand and join Vice Mayor Parks for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Salute Pledge Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation, another God and liberty and justice for all.

Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

Yes, ma'am.

I did ask for one item to be removed.

Uh item I believe it's L.

Oh, okay.

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda minus item L.

Did you want to speak on that or have a I was just gonna have uh our community development director come up here and speak on that one.

Uh I didn't have any opposition to it, but it I'm sorry.

Where somebody didn't vote.

Johnny.

Uh it's not allowing him to vote.

I'll vote yes.

Uh I've just asked me to come up.

I just wanted read into the record.

It is a final plot.

Um there was any um dissension on it in the planning commission or not, and then go from there.

So it's on record.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of council, city manager, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I'm Rocky Hinkle, Community Development Director.

Uh PT 2659-2026 is a conditional final plat for Rosewood Village, which proposes about 20 lots and six reserve areas totaling approximately four and a half acres.

This property is located approximately one-fourth of a mile north of Houston Street and one-eighth of a mile east of Aspen Avenue.

Comp 39 390-2023 was approved by City Council on February 21st, 2023.

PUD 737-2023 and BAZ 735-2023 was approved by City Council on June 5th, 2023.

PUD PUD 737-2023 proposed proposed to have up to 30 dwelling units, comprise of single-family detached homes on minimum 2500 square foot individual lots, duplex buildings on minimum 4,000 square foot lots, and four plex buildings on minimum three square foot, 3,000 square foot lots.

This conditional final planet before you proposes to have 20 lots, not the 30 in the PUD.

The conditional final plat was reviewed by the Technical Advisory Committee on March 3rd, 2026.

The Planning Commission recommended approval with uh 4.0 votes of this conditional final plat at its March 12th, 2026 meeting.

No one spoke in favor or opposition.

Uh recommend uh you approve PR 101-2022 and PT 2659-2026, the conditional final plat for Rosewood Village for Planning Commission and staff recommendations.

I'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Any discussion or we don't have anybody's time to speak on it tonight, correct?

No.

We do not well with that being said, I'll make a motion that we approve uh item L from the consent agenda.

Okay, it's working now.

Okay.

Again, we just need to be a small presence.

Yes, it is your presence.

We have a motion and a second roll call.

Thank you, Director Hinkle.

Thank you.

Appreciate you.

I did want to point out on item um.

Good.

Yes.

Let's vote it up by phone.

On item 5C, we had three people that just wanted to say that they were in support of item 5C, so I just wanted to point that out.

I do not wish to speak.

All right.

Item 7 is public hearings, appeals, presentations, or recognition, and awards.

7A is a presentation of a proclamation by Mayor Deborah Wimpy declaring April 8th, 2026 as Ernest Childers Day in Broken Arrow.

So I believe we're going to have Grover Wind come forward.

There he is.

Sir, he is the Secretary of Veterans Affairs with the Muscogee Nation.

And I will go ahead and read this as you come on up, sir.

Whereas on April 8th, 1944, in Naples, Italy, Broken Arrow Native, Second Lieutenant Ernest Childers was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and whereas Second Lieutenant Ernest Childers was the first Native American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor Honor in World War II.

And we're asked for his heroic actions on September 22nd, 1943, near Olivia.

Sorry, Italy, despite suffering from a fractured foot, Second Lieutenant Childers led eight enlisted men up a hill into enemy fire, neutralized the attack, and did not lose a brothers in arms.

Whereas the City of Broken Air desires to honor Second Lieutenant Ernest Childers for exemplary courage courage, leadership, and devotion to duty, and to encourage all residents to remember and recognize the sacrifices of our Medal of Honor recipients.

Now, therefore, I, Deborah Wempey, Mayor of the City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, do hereby proclaim April 8th as Ernest Childers Day and the City of Broken Arrow, and I call upon all citizens, organizations, and visitors to join in commemorating the legacy of Second Lieutenant Ernest Childers and expressing our enduring gratitude to all who have served and sacrificed in our defense of our nation.

We're all photo once the family, yes.

Yes, she has privacy.

Did you guys all speak?

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just want to say that for this retired special ed feature.

That I have always always available.

Any time anyone wants to honor my father because he was a wonderful man.

He was one of these kind of people.

I have heard other people tell me that when he's talking to you, you are the only person in the universe for him at that moment.

He was able to do this no matter who you were.

If you took the time to speak with him, he would take the time to make sure that you knew that he was listening.

Thank you.

It's an honor for us, honor the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

So we could mention we have our building named after our Lieutenant Colonel Tours.

We also have a statue of him out front.

The bravery this this gentleman showed typifies the warrior spirit and attitude of our native warriors.

You know, we believe we really believe not leave anybody behind.

If you read the story, you'll see that he had his foot fractured just in the and he still managed to save his men.

One of the stories that if you read it really has always fascinated me was as he was climbing up there low on ammunition, he had to take out these machine gun batteries.

He got the last one.

He threw rocks into the battery.

The Germans thought it was grenades.

So he was able to get one, and one of his members one of the serving members got the other.

He crawled on up.

And there was uh there was another watch there, a watcher there that he called him out.

And when he came out, Lieutenant Colonel Tillers had no ammo in his gun.

He had to pointed at him, and one of his sergeants said, kill him.

And he said, No taking prison.

Well, the reason why is he had no ammo.

But the German was fully armed.

But I mean, the honor, the bravery that this gentleman had during his time.

Not only, but more so he didn't think about himself, he thought about his fellow brothers.

We don't call our veterans soldiers at our office.

We call them warriors.

Because a warrior, a soldier is one who's taught to take commands and orders.

A warrior is one who is raised to take care of this nation, his people, his children, his elders.

And Lieutenant Colonel Chillers was a true warrior.

So thank you for taking the time to honor one of our veterans.

Thank you very much.

I have to say one thing because after Dad had one of his men come and take control of the mortar observer, he said that was the minute that I knew I was a Christian.

Because God saved me from killing an unarmed man.

Thank you.

Item 7B is a presentation of a proclamation by Mayor Wimpey declaring the month of April 2026 as a safe digging month in Broken Air, Oklahoma.

All right.

So the proclamation, you can come on down, honey.

The proclamation reads, whereas underground utilities such as natural gas, electric, water, sewer, telecommunications, and fiber infrastructure are essential to the health, safety, and economic vitality of the state of Oklahoma, whereas damage to underground facilities during excavation activities pose serious risks to public safety, property, and the environment, and can result in service disruptions, injuries, and significant financial loss.

And whereas Oklahoma law requires anyone planning excavation to notify Oki 811 before digging so underground utilities can be properly marked, helping to prevent accidents and to protect workers, homeowners, and communities.

And whereas safe digging practices support Oklahoma's infrastructure resilience.

Protect first responders and utility workers and promote responsible development across both urban and rural areas.

And whereas public awareness and education regarding the importance of calling 811 before digging plays a vital role in reducing utility damages and keeping Oklahoma safe.

Therefore, I Deborah Wimpy, Mayor of the City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, do hereby proclaim April 2026 as safe digging month in Oklahoma and encourage all residents, contractors, businesses, municipalities, and utility professionals to commit to safe excavation practices by calling 811 before every dig, waiting for utility markings and respecting those markings during excavation activities.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

That was really great.

Thank you for signing this for us.

I really appreciate it.

Um following uh this award, though.

It seemed that uh this is very important.

Um you did allow us to be here to do things like digging.

So everybody here can call 811 or go online to OK11.

So I'm accepting this on behalf of AP801 and open out from there.

So thank you for allowing us to do this, and thank you, Madam Mayor.

Absolutely.

Thank you for coming out.

I think I still have uh orange paint in my yard from getting my fence put up a couple of weeks ago.

You utilize it.

I did utilize it, yes.

All right, item 7C recognition of Broken Air Citizens, City Council employees and community partners for collaborative efforts regarding the 2026 obligation bond package.

Mr.

Spurgeon.

Thank you, Mayor, members of council, good evening, and those in the audience.

I just want to take just a minute of the council time.

Um as I've done over the last probably 15 months, every council meeting had an update on our general obligation uh bond package initiative, and tonight is the culmination of a two and a half year process that the governing body authorized uh back in 2023 to begin the process of putting together the next bond package for our community.

And as we close things out, every time we have a groundbreaking and ribbon cutting ceremony, it's always an opportunity to recognize those and many of them in the in the uh room this evening that helped participate this because that the city can't just operate with the government body and administration, it takes partners within the community.

So, on behalf of the council, I'd like to start by uh recognizing just uh uh a number of entities and making a couple of comments.

And you have to start with the city council, and I want to thank you for your vision, your fortitude, and your support.

Uh obviously, this this was the first time many of you have been through a general obligation bond.

Uh getting down to the final uh projects and initiatives takes time, it takes effort, uh, a lot of diligence, and I want to say thank you for your leadership and vision and ensure ensuring that we had a great citizens-driven package that you approved on January 6th.

Secondly, is the citizens, many of those uh that participated in the two-year process.

I mean, as you know, you because you were all there, we had hundreds of citizens that engaged with the governing body and administration over this two-year period that came out that made suggestions that took time out of their schedule.

And in fact, some citizens came to multiple meetings uh to make sure their voices were heard, and they put their stickers on the projects and initiatives.

And so it's all the citizens in the community that came out and gave the governing body the recommendations and suggestions.

Uh, thank you very much.

I'm proud to say that during the two and a half month public education phase that we just wrapped up last Saturday at the farmers market, there were over 1,500 citizens that went to the nearly 70 meetings that we had throughout the entire community, and that tells you the amount of interest that there was in hearing more about the projects and initiatives that were in all eight propositions.

I also want to uh send a huge thank you to the leadership team and the senior staff, the many are here.

Uh their resilience and dedication.

Everyone contributed in some way, shape, or form, not with just putting together the the projects that were recommended to my office and ultimately to the council, but many of them gave presentations, many of them went out and answered questions, and I want to recognize all of the department directors for their dedication and fortitude as well for making sure that our citizens knew what was going to be voted on to uh today.

Next, and this is very important, is the communications team led by communications director Aaron McCulloch.

Uh Aaron uh did an incredible job of laying out everything that the council wanted to see in terms of putting together a public education program, and I just want to recognize Aaron, his entire team for such a great job.

Next, we have the Jacobs team, our consultant that helped put together the estimates, provided guidance on on how we should undo things, and we have a representative from from uh Jacobs, so thank you for your support.

And now most importantly is our community partners, starting with the school district.

They made they gave suggestions and made input.

The chamber and EDC is here, and I want to thank the chamber for their guidance and support.

Uh our citizen steering committee that was made up of uh a dozen citizens that gave their time for about seven months coming up with recommendations.

And on behalf of the council, I'll thank them.

Uh our building user groups.

We have uh a couple of them here this evening.

We just honored our history museum of the part of our one of our warriors that actually was recognized for the uh congressional medal of honor.

They're here.

We have four others.

We have the senior center, we had the military history center, uh, we had the veteran center in Arts 302.

Council members serve on those boards, so you know how hard they work to come up with recommendations.

Our sports organizations.

They came out and asked council for support, and I want to thank them for their efforts.

Now, all together, the thing I'm most important proud about is the transparency.

One thing that's been that was discouraging to me is to see some comments online that the city council was not transparent in this process.

I don't know how you can say if you do seven surveys, you hold hundreds of meetings, uh, you do you do social media posts on a regular basis, you do utility bills.

Uh to be able to say you weren't transparent is simply uh not the case.

And so I want to congratulate uh everyone that participated in this process.

It's been an honor for our community to engage, and I look forward to the results here in just about 11 minutes.

So with that, I'll turn it back over to you, Mayor.

All right, thank you.

Um item eight is citizens' opportunity to address the council on general topics related to city business or services.

Uh just a reminder no action may be re taken on matters under this item.

We do have one.

Uh Miss Edna Osborne.

To the mayor, city councilmen, city councilwomen.

I am so proud of you and the improvement of this city since I moved here in 2006.

I complained a lot online and in council meetings about how bad we looked.

I didn't know we had a rose district.

I came from Oregon.

Uh lived in Oregon for 10.

Let's see.

I worked for Sears for 10 years, but I lived in Oregon for 13 years.

And uh we had a Rose District.

Now we have a Rose District here.

The city is beautiful, the buildings are beautiful.

I had an opportunity to work in the Union School District.

They thought I was spying because of my profile picture on Facebook.

I said, I'm not, I'm working.

I'm trying to make a living.

And um there are beautiful buildings throughout the city of Broken Arrow.

And I told them while I was there, you are blessed.

You have no idea how we had to come up and how far I had to walk just to get to a school.

And your schools look like colleges, especially uh Rosa Parks and others, big schools, nice schools.

So I came just in case I'd have something to speak about.

I thank you for what you attempted to do, but the it's not over yet.

Uh the street widening project is not over.

So I don't know how much water you're gonna be able to move from the area where I live called the Branch Creek uh homeowners association.

Um I love where I live.

I love the size of my house, and for a single person, um husband died seventeen years ago, and I've been able to keep the house.

Um I'm uh don't plan on leaving.

I don't plan on being tossed out or run out.

I don't do no running.

I'm part Cherokee, part Irish and black, and I don't run.

I stand my ground.

If I get killed or something, hey, I'm going home.

And I just said um, this is a beautiful place, and we should continue to make ourselves available to each other to help each other, and not to um come up with any kind of issues about each other.

I um I'm so proud that you have a minister now.

I said this on Facebook, who comes and blessed the meetings before we start because we should always consult him before we do anything.

Agreed.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you, Edna.

Thank you for sharing Edna.

All right, item nine is general counsel business.

Item 9A's consideration discussion and possible approval of BAZ 2651-2026.

Rocky Hinkle.

Good evening again, Madam Mayor.

BAZ 2651-2026 was initially a request to rezone approximately.

She's gonna get her purse.

BAZ 2651-2026 was initially a request to rezone approximately 119 acres from A1 agricultural to RSP single family residential preservation for the pines for a proposed single family residential development.

This property is located one quarter mile south of Omaha Street and west of uh 37th or 2009th Street.

The proposed development will have access from both 37th Street to the east and indirectly from Omaha Street to the north through existing previous phases of the development.

This property is comprehensive plan level two, which supports a rezoning to RSORSP.

During the meeting held on March 12, 2026, the applicant indicated that the proposed development would match the sizes of the existing pre-development phases to the north, which were zoned RS3 under the previous zoning ordinance.

The applicant requested RSP zoning for the 25% green space requirement, but did not plan to develop the lots as small as the RSP would allow.

Planning Commission recommended the requested zoning designation be reduced in intensity from RSP to RS.

And the applicant stated the reduced zoning intensity would be acceptable.

Planning Commission recommended approval 5.0 of BAZ 2651-2026 with the less intense RS zoning.

During the public comment period, four citizens signed up to speak and ask questions about the layout and development of the site.

Staff uh recommends approval of BAZ 2651-2026 as no as modified by the planning commission.

There is a uh representative of the property owner here to uh speak as well.

Any questions or discussion?

So you said uh we had residents that spoke, but they didn't spoke um in favor or against it, they just had questions, it sounds like okay.

But this is a rezoning request, so there isn't a layout.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, we've got um citizens that wish to speak on this.

So the first one is Dennis Koch.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Uh my name is Dennis Koch.

I live in the phase right in front of where this one's proposed at.

Uh just a simple statement.

My family rule my family relocated to our new home in September.

We selected this house partly because it is adjacent to to a wooded area.

Before that, I had cancer and I beat cancer, and we looked for a home that was in a really nice area.

So we chose this one.

During our visit to the property, we inquired about the trees and any potential future development.

The representatives at the main subdivision office assured us that there were no plans to for development and that the area would remain untouched.

Our three young toddlers enjoy gazing out at the trees, observing the birds and the deer that show up at time sometimes, and other wildlife that run through the trees that inhabit the area.

We have taken numerous walks along the trails that weave through the wooden region.

The removal of this forested forested area could compel both my neighbors and me to seek alternate living arrangements, which is not what we envisioned after we just moved in.

Um what's the uh go?

Sorry.

With the projected layout, the road that goes right into the new show division is at the end of our street, and there's not a lot of traffic in that area right now.

And like I said, I've got three toddlers, three, seven, and eight.

Um they ride their bikes in the in the cul de sac up and down the street.

Putting this project in is gonna why very much increase the traffic in that area.

There's a lot of people that walk the area, walk the streets, a lot of kids up and down the street, bikes, scooters, all the families, everything.

It's gonna cause a lot of traffic in the area.

And I just coming from living in an area where there was a lot of traffic, it hinders the growth of kids playing.

So that's one of the only thing I've got.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um, Rocky, is what what are the ingress and egress for this neighborhood?

Is it only solely going through the neighborhood above?

So I believe he lives are you you live in phase three?

Oh, he's playing the other side.

Yes, um, I live in 53, I live on easy.

So he lives on the dirt side.

Okay.

Or it's right now.

Um there is no ingress or egress um off 2009 for his subdivision, they have to use 36.

36th Street to go to 51st Street.

Okay.

Well, I I can completely understand um your concerns.

When I we bought built a house four years ago, um, we were told that it would be five to ten years before our forest would be gone.

And so I was just trying to wrap my head around okay, I've got at least five years, right?

And three months later, every tree came down.

And so that was a little devastating, and we don't get to see deer anymore, and it's very sad for me.

But I'm I'm kind of upset that we still have realtors and people that tell our citizens that oh nothing's ever happening back there because unless you own the land, it's going to get developed at some point, and that is unfortunate, obviously.

So but Rocky, if you wanted to address anything further, or if anyone had any questions on that one.

I'll have the representative of the property owner come up and address.

Okay.

Is there anybody else?

There's one more.

Oh well, maybe I'll I'll let let me let them talk speak real quick and then you could address both.

Uh Todd Walls.

Council members, thanks for listening to me.

So I did come to the last session.

Um we spoke about some similar you know concerns.

Um I understand that the property owner is going to be able to be to develop.

I mean, that's their right.

Um, and and you have so many powers that you're at your will to act on.

Um I didn't know what good it could have, but uh I I printed off a picture just so that maybe you would fall in love with it as as we have.

Um I used to look at that, yes.

Yes, yes.

So I my request is maybe is a little bit more reasonable.

I I will say I and I don't know maybe you're still gonna show something, but I we were under the impression that maybe this time around we might actually see the layout of what the homes that were going to be put forth or the or the lots at least, what was going to be there.

Uh I'm just north of the pond, the retention pond you see in that picture, um directly north of it, actually, right there.

Yeah, that's that's right about where I'm at.

Um so I guess my request is is I guess the thought that I have is of course I don't want to have any false thoughts about what I'm I'm for I mean obviously we love the view.

I mean that's it's what about things that are important, things that I think actually have as much meaning as that or more meaning is going to be things like erosion on the other side of that pond into that retention pond, uh property value, um privacy.

Um so one of the things that I might request that that you could consider maybe speak to the to the owner on is south of that pond right there, that that entire area that we're talking about in the uh like the southwestern corner of that pond.

If we could consider at least having something like a like a 40 to 50 foot tree line there uh before the homes actually are created.

I mean, thinking about it in terms of that, you know, and like I said, privacy, erosion, um, property value.

I I could see is ha that that would have as much value to the new homeowners as it would us.

So I don't like I said, I know they said that 25% of the trees are going to stay.

Um I'm advocating or requesting that maybe we buffer could we have some of that 25% be in that area.

So then that that's my request.

Okay, thank you so much.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

I would assume that you would retain most of the trees along that backside, right?

Especially by that pond.

Yeah, so um Alan Betch and AAB engineering, so where the engineers and surveyors for the project.

Um the pond is functioning, it's it's actually is a detention facility.

Um it's a detention facility that was built as part of the original phases of pines one ultimately it was done in three, but it actually addresses one, two, and three, so all of it as we are moving down in development.

Um there is there are two stub streets that come south that were stubbed out of those phases that will connect into the development to the south.

The reality is we'll also have two main entrances off of 37th to the east.

And the you can't say all because all's a very big number and it's very precise, but the vast majority of the traffic from this section of this neighborhood is gonna traverse east, even if it's trying to go north, it's not gonna weave through the existing neighborhoods.

There's there's just not it intentionally is designed not to have the most direct routes to keep speeds down and to keep that from happening.

Um I I would actually my my statement and and true opinion of it is it's probably improving the connectivity of the existing neighborhood to be able to get out to 37th after this future phase comes in.

All this is a little misleading in size, because if if you look at that reverse, like you see kind of the creek that bends back and then comes back down to the western.

You could be horrible at doing that.

We can see it.

Um that way.

So if you this oxpo right here is actually part of the main Adams Creek, and so there won't be any development that happens on the entire west side of this.

So there's it's a really steep drop-off that goes down into that.

And there's no in what we're proposing right now, everything stays on this side, and the vast majority of the development is occurring really in the area that was already cleared.

Um in anticipation somewhat of this development, because it was the place that where the stockpiles from that regional detention facility were actually overlaid.

So that clearing and that fill was actually placed by as part of the detention facility construction to the south.

So they could see where you approach it.

Which is this this is uh this area here.

Um there is certainly we are not going right up to the back, and we will like saving as many trees, especially around that detention facility is our intent, and that's a quarry pond.

So there's a pretty significant vertical relief whenever you get into that.

My hesitation about saying, hey, we're not going to touch anything, is because it's still utility easements in the back, and ultimately there is some part of it that's not even in our control, it's in the franchise utilities control about where they use and how that works.

That is also part of the drainage structure for the entire subdivision development.

So right now, water is coming out of that development, which is here, it discharges through here and then is routed down.

So we'll have storm sewer that we're gonna instead of it being channelized overflow, it'll start being collected and and move south.

Can you did you see that?

Did you see where he was pointing?

Can you show that again?

So right here.

So there's this is there's discharges coming out of here.

This is actually a discharge where there's a storm sewer that comes out here, and there's a channel, and one of the problems that um broken arrows had, and and the after the regional detention facility was there's so much water coming out of that, it was actually spillwaying and there was erosion happening down into the detention facility.

So we'll need to do utility work just to get that water coming off of the north to the south.

Um, it is very much in keeping with the exact.

I mean, this is a future uh a further phase of what is development, has already happened to the north.

It is exactly the same product, the same builder, the same configuration.

Um I I'm I unfortunately am the one who gets to come into these meetings and say I I it was the development's intent for that to always come down.

I mean the detention facility, the regional detention facility was even designed with that further development in its concept.

How that gets communicated through realtors and third parties, I'm I'm certainly sympathetic to it, just isn't I I can't hold that, and I can't say who said what.

I can tell you that did that pond stays, so there is a green space, there is that amenity that they're backing up to, and it does stay.

And on the west, there's going to be a significant portion of that area to the west that all stays forested because it's just in the box drop off of the creek, and there's no intent to use it.

Um what stays and what dies, and even that it gets turned over to an HOA, and then if they want to clear out some of the end and put in trails or what other systems come into that, that's all a little bit out of out of my control at that point.

Um, but the intent is to further the project in a way that was really conforming with what it was.

I truly don't believe there's a significant traffic increase to be seen from this through the existing developments.

That's just not the path of traffic, to be very honest with you.

And I think it will even give you the existing developments a better path to get to get where they're going, um, where the majority of the traffic is.

Um this the groundwork has been laid for for this future phase, and that was always what was intended.

This is the places that we can still keep some green space around it, and we're gonna do that to the extent possible within the development.

So it's not just a total scrape.

There is a lot of native that stays because of the floodplains because of the creeks, because of what's already there.

So I and I can't always say that, but I can this time that we really will leave a lot of green space on this because of the very nature of what's there.

I know one of his questions too is do you know what type of design the houses may be?

Like are you here to back to that?

What was done in two and three, same builders?

Okay.

So I mean, this is no that I again.

This is one where I can say there won't be a decrease in property value because it's the same properties getting built again, and and it's only more expensive to build than it was today that day than it is today than it was then.

So it it's it is the same product, same size houses, same lots, same configurations.

Help me, where's 37th in this scheme of things?

Is it north?

So 2009, okay.

Okay, I'm looking for 37th on there.

I'm like, which name shows up this is the I am incredibly sympathetic to that concept.

Which name shows up this is the I am incredibly sympathetic to that concept.

I have a hard time on them on this.

Which one I grab is what it is.

But it 30, that 29th 37th is the that's the widened road.

That's the major thoroughfare moving traffic north and south.

That's how you get to the elementary.

That's how you get south to go over to the high school.

So that is the normal movement.

Would you be open to exchanging information that way if the homeowners in that neighborhood will be able to do that?

Absolutely.

Um and I they will all get the notify we do notify for preliminary plat.

It should be to all the joiners, at least the butters.

I I firmly sticking to say a butters.

Um the preliminary plat is it's once this action is done, we're ready to move forward with the preliminary plat.

I'll certainly meet and share that with them.

I think there's some confusion when I said the next meeting, the next planning commission meeting that I'm available to be on.

We will go through the preliminary plat.

That is the next step.

So that will be when we talk about very much more detail about exact layout where the roads are, where the utilities are, kind of going through the next steps.

But you certainly many of you have heard me say this over and over.

It's a phase process.

We have to take step one to take step two to then go on to construction documents, and this is the first one in that process.

But I I do think this is something that is a good product that's shown a lot of interest.

Um it's at a good price point for a good house that is really something I think the city is um should be encouraging, I think would support in this area.

It's it's we're not the densest and smallest, um, and we're still trying to leave a lot of green space and open space with it.

Rocky, will we notify the neighbors when that next meeting comes up?

Okay, okay.

How far out would it be before you start um turning dirt?

Putting it.

Yeah, turning dirt.

Um so uh earthwork is four to six months whenever we get through the process of design plating review of the plot plans and get to construction, and then on a project of that size, it's probably 12 months to 15 months of of heavy civil construction before you ever have house, then it's house building after that that goes, which is dependent on kind of takedowns and what the consumption rate is.

So it's uh it's two years before houses before houses ever start going up for a general rule, is kind of what I say.

And there any time we start a project from this phase, it's kind of my answer is it's two years before there's anybody moving into anything or again getting close to that from this moment.

Thank you.

And that's a pretty aggressive schedule in a lot of ways.

Okay, I think the only question that may not have been answered yet is like what um what are you planning on putting like maybe between the two neighborhoods as a buffer?

So it's all one neighborhood with shared amenities.

Oh, yeah, gotcha.

So that's I mean, that's part of the misconception of this is literally there is a pool being built right now that is a that's to serve as a community pool, and there's discussion about a secondary amenity being installed in this that's an amenity for all of the subdivision.

So it I'm I'm very and I don't mean it it's hard for me to say this and not sound much more harsh than I'm trying to sound, but it is all the same neighborhood.

So when we start talking about separation, it's that's that's not what we do in neighborhoods.

We're just moving to the next phase of the same neighborhood.

That's the intent of this.

So there is the the concept of buffering the same inside the same neighborhood is a little bit well that's good that I mean that makes it clear, then they know what to expect for sure.

And they also have the same enforcement rights from an HOA standpoint, same architectural requirements, all the things that they're living in are the exact same things that the next one get to live in, and they all get the same vote in the same place for the same things.

Okay.

Um so there's there is actually for once they actually do have some authority moving forward because the HOA is is already turned over.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, because we have seen where the HOA was not turned over and things did not get built the way they were supposed to.

And there's that that's part of the leaving them continuous, in my opinion, is one of the ways that we stop some of the um help short circuit some of the arguments.

Yeah, that come down later about who did what and who we're went.

I which is beyond me, but I'm like, hey, it's all in one.

So now everybody's got the same authorities that they would have had if it was anywhere else.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, sir.

Any other further questions?

I have a question of Rocky.

Rocky, was there ever have to be a uh was there a comp plan on this, or was this same comp plan?

Same comp plan.

Okay.

I wanted to make a point that uh those of you that uh go to a real estate person or go to a neighbor or a relative and ask what's going to be built next door.

You can go online, and our comp plan will tell you probably what's going to go next door.

So the comp plan tells us if it's going to be a residential, if it's going to be commercial, even if lean toward maybe it's being apartments.

You know, there's the comp plan there.

So there's a comp plan, it's online at the city.

Is that correct?

Still online at the city.

If you want to know what's going to be built in that green area, you can go online and look at that and uh we'd be built because sometimes real estate people uh people don't always get all the information.

The city has all the information.

Now that can be changed, but only by the city council.

Correct.

At a public hearing.

Correct.

So uh if you are gonna buy property, yeah, we can call the mayor.

Call the vice mayor.

Is that call the vice mayor?

I'll give you I'll tell you how I'll send you a copy of the comp plan.

That's a fun read.

Anyway, that's that's something that's good.

Does that let you know probably what's going to be built?

And all the way that that's not gonna be built, it has to come back in a public hearing before the council.

Yes, all right.

No further discussion.

Entertain a motion.

I'll make a second computer work.

So we have motion was to approve.

I believe so.

Yeah.

I don't did someone verbally say that.

No.

Okay.

Thank you for putting it.

I voted, but it still says you have a motion.

There we go.

Thank you.

All right.

Um next is preview ordinances.

Item 11A is consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3905.

Trevor Burrus, uh, thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council members.

Uh, just by way of background, the ordinance that's before you for consideration for adoption had previously been previewed.

We also had a work session at the beginning of March, and then we had brought it back, I think on March the 24th.

We've gotten a lot of community engagement and back and forth, and so we made about 10 different changes at the last meeting uh that was presented to you, and then we had two additional requests that were made that we've incorporated into the ordinance specifically.

Uh the first one is uh what we'd called a safe harbor provision.

So basically the idea is if the owner of a short-term rental reports on themselves, uh the director has the discretion to uh either consider that or not consider it for disciplinary actions.

I think it's good and important that the director has discretion because there could be circumstances where perhaps the short-term rental owner was responsible for the violation uh or things of that nature.

Um the second uh change uh that we had was a uh a discount on the fees.

So there was also a request that there be not only a uh you know a stick, but there also be a carrot.

So for those who are operating properly and within our code, what we have is a provision that an owner that shows that their short-term rental hasn't been the subject of enumerated nuisance or serious incidents within the previous 12 months, we'll have the renewal fee reduced by 20 percent of the fee and the manual fees.

So those are the two changes that were asked based upon the comments at the at the previous uh council meeting, and so those are the ones that are presented to you.

And I do understand um for Mr.

Green or Curtis Green or Clerk that we had additional uh comments that were submitted um by Devin Bose, who's the owner of the space place, and I think each of the council members has had received that.

I'm half happy to answer any questions that you have about the ordinance as it's been amended, or any questions that you have that were just raised, you know, by the citizen.

I can I can respond to those.

I would say in general, we we have already addressed the issues that that were raised in that written complaint, and I can explain that if you'd like.

Well, I just want to thank uh Chief Arnold for bringing this to the council to begin with.

Um you know, I I do not have an Airbnb in my neighborhood, but I'm glad that we have these um you know restrictions, these rules in place for those that do have Airbnbs in their neighborhood, because um if they could get out of control really quickly, so I appreciate that and I appreciate your work on working on this ordinance as well and your input as well, Mr.

Spurgeon.

And to your point, Councilor Ford, I neglected to mention that uh just by way of history, uh this was originally brought to us by Chief Arnold.

There was probably 20 to 30 different incidences uh ranging from you know drunk and disorderly uh to juvenile parties uh to marijuana consumption in public.

I think we even had a discharge of a firearm.

So there were some serious issues that were raised related to the short-term rentals that gave right rise to us needing to look at this and to strengthen it.

So there are really real-world problems.

We aren't just having a solution looking for a problem.

Yes.

So just one question of clarification.

Um, you mentioned the um the carrot, um, the 20% reduction.

Is that a one-time thing or is that a reoccurring thing?

I mean, if I go, you know, five years, am I down to zero on the fees, or how is that structured in there just for clarification?

No, that's a great question, Councilor Green.

It is a rolling year by year, so the most that you'd ever get a discount would be for 20 would be 20 percent, and it just looks back for that one previous year, your previous behavior.

We don't care.

Well, we do care, but for purposes of the stretch that we have here, but for purposes of the renewal that's we understood.

I just wanted to give that clarified.

You don't want to give any false hope there.

Unfortunately.

Soon there'll be no fee.

Yes.

I'll I'll make a motion to approve uh item 26-447.

Second.

We have a motion and a second roll call.

Item 11B is the emergency clause.

I'll make a motion to accept the emergency clause second.

Can you enter your motion?

Yeah, second again.

Thank you.

All right, roll call.

All right, item 12 is remarks and inquiries by governing body members.

Um I was just I was hoping uh that Childers family would remain.

I had the opportunity to go up to the Tulsa Airport when they did the Medal of Honor ceremony and they recognized um him there as well.

So that was really neat to participate in.

Um and then uh just wanted to reiterate how grateful we are to the city staff on their hard work with this bond package.

I know you guys missed a lot of dinners.

Um like you're probably tired of talking about the bond package, and I get that.

But the real work comes after today, so just so you know, no pressure.

I was wondering if there was gonna be a mass exodus at the store tomorrow.

Say they might leave.

Yeah.

Um she's just kidding.

Yeah, right.

You you're going nowhere, yes.

Um thank you all for all your work as well, uh, Michael.

And then I totally forgot to mention you have been a city manager for 38 years.

Yes as in March 28th.

Thank you.

That happens to be our daughter's birthday, so I was a little focused on her turning 22, I guess, and I totally forgot.

But um that you're doing a great job.

Thank you very much.

You know, and if I can just say too, 38 years, um, experience matters.

You know, uh, I think a lot of new uh new st new city managers kind of learn why they're on that job and make mistakes that sometimes are hard to come back from, honestly, and and do cost cities a lot of money.

Um so experience does matter.

And I do appreciate your experience and your well thought out of where the city needs to go in the future.

It's not just like what are we gonna do tomorrow?

Or we're gonna or what are we gonna do in a month?

Like we're planning out for the future, and um it takes a visionary to do that, and so I do appreciate that, and um congratulations.

Thank you very much for thank you.

Yes, please.

Any other remarks?

City managers.

I just a couple.

First off, I want to say hi to Mrs.

Osborne.

Thank you for being here tonight.

Appreciate your very kind words.

Uh good to see you.

Secondly, there was a resident that came at the last meeting that had some questions about Amazon.

Council has been has seen the update.

Mr.

Schwab is still working with her to address, I think, one other question, and so uh we're working through her questions with regard to the Amazon college road and so forth.

So I want to just let the council know that.

Also, I want to thank the chief of police for bringing the issue with the uh short-term rentals to the council's attention.

Uh, just a reminder is this was not government overreach.

This was a law enforcement professional bringing to the council uh a areas of the ordinance that need to be addressed to protect those that that are in compliance and ensure that those are not in compliance have there is some remedy for them to be brought into compliance.

And so that was original this and the citizens that have been to every single meeting expressing their views and the support overall of the council, but making sure that they're allowed to continue to do business.

And so I want to thank the council for for listening to the citizens, listening to the leadership and coming up with a with an ordinance that works for our community.

So that's what I want to say.

Thank you.

Well, we do have an executive session.