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Council tables Crutchfield TIF item until March 12 after residents and developers raise documentation and equity concerns
Summary
Councilors agreed Feb. 5 to table the Crutchfield tax increment financing district item (4d) to the March 12 meeting after residents, a property owner and a developer said project-plan documents did not match the community's plans and excluded certain affordable-housing funding.
Tulsa City Council voted Feb. 5 to table agenda item 4d, the proposed Crutchfield TIF amendment, until the council's March 12 meeting after residents and property owners raised concerns about missing or incorrect documentation and potential impacts on North Tulsa.
Stewart McDaniel, who said he owns about 300 properties within the proposed district, told councilors he had not previously been provided project-plan documentation and that the materials he recently reviewed did not align with the neighborhood's sector plan or small-area plan. "The budget is severely decreased from what we had initially planned on generating," McDaniel said, and he asked that the council table the item so staff and community members could correct the documentation and allow him time to review it.
McDaniel said a planned $8,000,000 development for which he is responsible was affected by the current plan language and that $1,200,000 of the city's affordable housing trust fund money was excluded from development area A. He requested a short delay so staff could provide corrected documents; councilors and staff agreed to return the item on March 12 and gave McDaniel time to work with staff.
Other speakers raised related neighborhood concerns. James Alexander Jr. and Bernice Alexander spoke during the item; James Alexander urged attention to code enforcement and standing-water health hazards, and Bernice Alexander tied the Crutchfield discussion to broader water-service concerns in North Tulsa, referencing a recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services check of $818,000 to DHS to help water-bill payments and saying about 2,300 people had been threatened with service disconnection.
Councilors directed staff to work with community representatives and the largest property owners to correct the project plan's documentation before the next hearing. The motion to table the item for further revision and review passed by roll call; councilors set March 12 at 5 p.m. for the item's next appearance on the agenda.
Council staff acknowledged errors in the project-plan documents during the discussion and said minor fixes could be made quickly so the item would be ready for the March 12 meeting. No final adoption or TIF approvals were made Feb. 5; the item was removed from the current vote and scheduled for reconsideration.
