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Owasso council approves two easement closures, two annexations and several consent items
Summary
At a regular meeting, the Owasso City Council approved two easement-closure ordinances for the Smith Farm Village development, annexed roughly 57 acres across two separate ordinances for park and residential uses, and approved the consent agenda; Item 18 was removed from the agenda.
The Owasso City Council on an evening meeting approved two ordinances to close portions of utility and stormwater easements in the Smith Farm Village development and adopted two separate annexation-and-rezoning ordinances to bring about 57 acres into the city for park and residential use.
Staff told the council the easement closures are technical adjustments following lot-line changes in the Smith Farm Village final plat and that replacement easements will be recorded to match the revised lot lines. Staff recommended approval of the annexations after concluding the requests met the relevant statutory and local-code requirements.
Why it matters: closing and re-establishing easements and annexing land affect where utilities and drainage are located and how future development and city services will be planned. The council’s votes formally clear title or zoning barriers so the developer and the city can proceed with engineering…
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