Guthrie council tables Main Street rezoning after split over limited duplex proposal

At a special City of Guthrie council meeting on July 16, 2025, council members discussed a rezoning request from Helen Morris to change parcels on Main Street from R-2 to R-3. Councilman Chad Johnson said the change should be narrowly tailored, moving "just enough property to build one duplex on the upper end of Main Street" while leaving other parcels R-2, and cited "improvement to the area" as the factual basis for his proposal.

Johnson first proposed approving a limited rezoning to permit a duplex at the upper end of Main Street. He later attempted to amend the motion to include 126 Main Street but withdrew that amended motion. Johnson then moved to reject the Planning Commission’s recommendation to deny the rezoning and to approve rezoning the listed Main Street properties from R-2 to R-3; that motion "died for a lack of a second" and was not adopted.

Faced with no second and continuing debate, Councilman Zollie Rose moved to table the matter pending further discussion; Councilwoman Andrea Milkowski seconded the motion, which carried unanimously. The council recorded no final rezoning decision and left substantive consideration to a future meeting. Russ Longhurst was recorded as recusing himself from participation on the special meeting’s subject before the discussion.

The transcript lists public comments from multiple residents on the rezoning request and records that the Planning Commission had recommended denial; the council’s action to table means no change in zoning is effective now. The item will return for further consideration at a later, unspecified date.