A split vote resulted in the Henryetta city council rezoning some property from single family residential to allow a manufactured home to be placed on it.
The property is located on Frisco and Gum and Michelle Steele wanted to place a manufactured home on it.
A debate over allowing the manufactured home started with one set of neighbors voicing their opposition. Councilor Shannon Scott said he walked through the neighborhood talking to five people about the rezoning issue. He said all were opposed to it. “Their perception was mobile homes didn’t really raise the level of their neighborhoods,” he said.
One couple said they didn’t want the neighborhood to turn into a mobile home park. A fear about people bringing in mobile homes then renting them out is covered by a city ordinance that prohibits a person from doing that. The city statute also restricts any mobile home over ten years old from being placed on property.
Steele said the home would not have the appearance of a mobile home that would be on a foundation with landscaping and additions built onto it.
Councilors Scott and Janna Dugan voted against the zoning request. Approval votes were given by Gary Clason, Christy Jeffcoat and Jennifer Munholland.
The council gave unanimous approval for two similar requests, one for a double wide to be placed on property and another rezoning property from light industrial to manufactured homes.
In other business, the council approved extending the lease agreement to the VFW Post 539 to 15 years. That request was made after VFW members expressed a desire to remodel the former county health department building.
Keith Green was appointed to the board of adjustments.