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This public hearing, held on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM in the Broken Arrow Council Chambers, addressed two nuisance abatement cases involving dilapidated structures. The council reviewed reports from code enforcement, heard testimony from a property owner's attorney, and made decisions on demolition orders for each property.
Six nuisance abatement public hearing to order. The first item up is item two A, which is the approval of the nuisance abatement public hearing meetings on March 4th, 2026. I have read the minutes that were provided and they are accurate to the best of my recollection. So I will be approving those minutes as submitted. Consideration and discussion possible declaration that 113 North Ninth Street, Broken Air, Oklahoma, Tulsa County, as a dilapidated structure and public nuisance and authorization to uh demolish the uh property. Um Ron. Hi, Ron. If you'll uh kind of bring me up to date on this, I have read your report and looked over the items, but uh if you if you want to bring me yes on March 11th, 2026, uh it was a case open for uh code enforcement to inspect uh the dilapidated structure and the detached structure located on the property and inspected showed at the uh house and the garage detachment structure to be following conditions which according to the state and city ordinance meet the definition of dilapidated structure and is eligible for demolit demolition. The garage has wood rot and dilapidated roof, the detached structure has roof wood rot and dilapidated roof. The house was has cracked foundations, dilapidated siding. The house has been completely gutted on the inside with exposed electrical wiring, framing, broken windows and missing doors, wood rot, missing boards, and as a safety hazard. A courtesy notice was mailed to the property owner on March 11, 2026. An order to correct and repair was posted and mailed and certified to the property owner on May 28th. The public hearing notice was posted and mailed certified to the property owner on July 10th of revised probable hearing order notice was posted and mailed and certified on September 2nd. The COVID officer talked to the property owner numerous times throughout the process and gave extensions to the to to comply. Property owner applied for a remodel permit, but the uh he never followed through for the process and uh uh when did he apply for that? Um it was right around maybe June. Okay. Um I kept on trying to catch up with them, trying to figure out what the process was. Permit department told me that uh that they have never heard anything back from them. Um there have been no improvements made to the property, and the communication with the code officer has ceased. And my recommendations uh I declare the structure and the detached structure located at 113 North Ninth Street, broken arrow. Uh a dilapidated structure in a public nuisance and to ask you to demolition order. Very good. Is is the owner of the property here. The owner of the property is not. Thank you, sir. The uh next item is uh item 3B, and it's consideration discussion and possible declaration that 8420 Southland Lane Road, Broken Era, Oklahoma 74012 in Tulsa County, it's 2.74 acres as a dilapidated structure and public nuisance and authorization to demolish the property. And uh Calvin? Yes, sir. So on March 11th of 2026, uh code enforcement opened a case for dilapidated structure at 8420 South Linlade Road in Broken Arrow. An inspection of the property shows the following conditions which according to state statute and city ordinance meet the definition of a dilapidated structure and eligible for demolition. The house has not been maintained and it's in disrepair. The structure does not um the structure does not appear to be habitable, and there's not been an active water account since October 19th of 2022. The house has the home has foundation issues, wood rot, holes in the soft and fascia boards, and the roof is severely dilapidated.