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Tulsa Board of Adjustment grants multiple variances and special exceptions, denies one sign-area request; several items continued
Summary
At a public hearing the Board of Adjustment approved a bundle of variances and special exceptions including sign and driveway relief, denied one request to increase dynamic-sign display area, and continued at least one case to the May 27 meeting. Most votes were unanimous among members present.
The Tulsa Board of Adjustment met in a public hearing and approved a package of variances and special exceptions spanning sign relief, driveway widths, detached accessory buildings and setbacks, and assembly and building-service uses across the city.
The most contested item involved BOA 23877 (10010 S. Riverside Pkwy), an application by Claude Neon/Federal Signs to modify and rebrand multiple freestanding and monument signs, including rules on dynamic (electronic) displays. The board denied one variance request that would have increased the maximum dynamic-display area on the pole sign, then approved the remaining variances needed to legalize and modify the existing freestanding signs (including allowing one dynamic display sign limited to the monument sign and allowing existing pole/monument heights and areas to be made legal). Nearby property owners objected, arguing the site is visible from the Arkansas River and that larger/ truck‑stop style signage is inappropriate in the River District overlay; the applicant said the…
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