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The Oklahoma City Council held their first meeting on July 22, 1890 and passed Ordinance No. 1 that divided the city into four wards. Each ward had two council members, one serving for one year and the other for two years. The first City Charter was approved by city voters and Oklahoma Governor Lee Cruce in March 1911. In 1926, the office of ...
In fact, the OKC metro lacks over 77,000 smaller, affordable housing options to accommodate these groups. Serving their needs will help make larger homes available for larger families.
The Oklahoma City Council is non-partisan and its nine members are elected to four-year terms. Oklahoma City is divided into eight wards, and voters in each ward elect a council member to represent that ward. The mayor is the voting member who is elected by all voters of the city, and is the Chief Executive of the City and President of the Council.
Oklahoma City was the 14th fastest-growing city in the latest U.S. Census update. Oklahoma City grew by about 1% between 2022 and 2023, adding 7,589 people. And between the 2010 and 2020 Censuses ...
Guest column: The completion of MAPS 3, a $777 million capital improvement initiative, marks a significant milestone in Oklahoma City's history. MAPS 3 was only ideas 15 years ago. Now, it's ...
Metropolitan Area Projects Plan (MAPS) is a multi-year, municipal capital improvement program, consisting of a number of projects, originally conceived in the 1990s in Oklahoma City by its then mayor Ron Norick. A MAPS program features several interrelated and defined capital projects, funded by a temporary sales tax (allowing projects to be ...
Oklahoma City planners want to know more of what residents think of plans to allow the backyard cottages and guest houses, technically called accessory dwelling units (ADU), in urban OKC.
Downtown Oklahoma City. Downtown Oklahoma City itself is currently undergoing a renaissance.Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, downtown was unchanged and largely vacant. It was the scene of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on 5th Street between Robinson and Harvey Avenues, caused by convicted domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh; most buildings within a 1-mile (1.6 km) radius ...