Planning staff on Thursday proposed replacing a 30‑acre minimum lot‑size reference in the city’s urban‑reserve designation with a 10‑acre standard and updating city land‑use maps to reflect a proposed Oklahoma Turnpike Authority alignment.

"There's a minimum lot size of 10 acres, and there is an allowance to go down to 2 acres if you do a planned unit development, where 65% of the total area is reserved as open space," Planning Department staffer Laura Hoggett told the oversight committee, describing the proposed text changes that would let cluster development reduce lot sizes if most acreage remains open space. Hoggett also said the edits would add allowances for accessory dwelling units and typical agricultural uses such as barns and stables.

The change would remove the existing 30‑acre minimum in the urban‑reserve section and replace it with language mirroring the agricultural residential category, Hoggett said. She also told members that GIS had added the OTA proposed turnpike alignment to the AIM master‑plan maps "based on what they had on their website as of today," but the alignment is provisional and OTA has not finalized land‑taking decisions.

Council member Gafar told the committee she requested the review after constituents said they could not subdivide long‑held parcels into 10‑acre lots for family transfers: "I was the 1 that asked for this," she said. Legal staff noted the plan text changes could be adopted by resolution, but the code parenthetical that references 30 acres sits in chapter 30, section 31 of the municipal code and would require an ordinance to amend.

Committee members asked follow‑up questions about infrastructure: the chair clarified cluster developments must be on water and sewer, not septic, and staff said policies in the 2045 character areas require contiguity with existing development and service extension to the property. Members also discussed whether constituents had been contacted; Gafar said she planned to follow up with affected property owners after the meeting.

Next steps: staff said they would coordinate with the city clerk to seek a council study session or council conference to present the draft language and the AIM map updates before sending changes to planning commission for required hearings and any ordinance readings.