Norman City Council declares 1000 North Interstate Drive dilapidated, adopts resolution to remove building

The Norman City Council voted 6–1 on June 17 to adopt a resolution declaring the six‑story hotel at 1000 North Interstate Drive dilapidated and harmful to public health and safety and authorizing the city manager to cause its removal if the owner does not complete required work within the resolution’s timetable.

City attorney Anthony Perinton summarized roughly a decade of code enforcement, inspections and missed permits that led staff to ask the council for the extraordinary remedy. “I think we meet all 4 definitions,” Perinton said during his presentation, referring to the city and state standards for dilapidated structures.

Staff told the council the property, which operated as a Holiday Inn until about 2016–17, has shown repeated water intrusion, collapsed ceilings, rusted structural steel, mold, damaged fire‑suppression systems and repeated unlawful entry by trespassers, including minors. The city has issued multiple unsafe‑structure notices, disconnected utilities at times for safety, and paid contractors to board and secure the building when the owner failed to do so.

Perinton and Greg Clark, the city’s building permit manager, documented a long pattern of expired and repeatedly extended renovation permits, material‑mens liens filed against the property (including a…