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Planning Commission recommends vacating easement after Army Corps letter, requires new private drainage easement
Summary
The Oklahoma City Planning Commission voted April 10 to recommend vacating a recorded drainage easement in the Lincoln Boulevard Industrial plat after an Army Corps of Engineers non‑jurisdiction determination, but required the applicant to record a private drainage easement across the north boundary to protect a remaining blue‑line stream.
The Oklahoma City Planning Commission on April 10 recommended approval to vacate a portion of the final plat of Lincoln Boulevard Industrial, contingent on the applicant recording a private drainage easement across the northern boundary of the lot.
The applicant, Najmi of NAFHA Engineering, told the commission the drainage easement was recorded when the plat was created and reflected a mapped blue‑line stream that has since been removed. Najmi said the firm submitted a “non jurisdiction letter from the Army Corps to the city.”
Barry Lodge of the city’s Public Works department told commissioners that while the Corps issued a non‑jurisdiction finding over the portion of the mapped blue line where the easement is platted, the Corps’ determination still shows a continuation of a blue‑line stream running along the north property line. Lodge asked the applicant to extend the private drainage easement that is already platted on the north side of the lots so it “will be extended to the west property line to cover the blue line stream that has been determined as jurisdictional by the Corps of Engineers.”
Commissioners discussed how the extended private drainage easement would operate when adjacent properties to the west develop. Lodge said the easement on the applicant’s property provides an “additional layer of protection” by preventing encroachment into the stream when that lot is developed, and that future developers to the west would have to address the Corps’ jurisdictional determination for their property.
Commissioner Kamal Pennington moved to recommend approval of VP‑00008 “including the TEs and adding in another TE to extend the private drainage easement that is on the northern boundary, to the western boundary that is consistent with the current jurisdictional blue line,” and Commissioner Meek seconded. The commission recommended the item for approval with the condition requiring the filing of the private drainage easement instrument and a copy be provided to the city prior to the item going to City Council.
The commission’s action is a recommendation to City Council; final action will be determined at a subsequent City Council meeting.
