What are the rules about keeping bees in the city limits?
The City’s Zoning Regulations consider bee keeping an agricultural activity; however, in 1997, a Bartlesville homeowner sued the City over this provision stating that he did this at his home in a single-farmily residential district as a hobby activity. The District Court ruled in his favor; therefore, the precedent is set. Specifically, a person can have no more than two hives, with one queen per hive, and one brood chamber per hive as a hobby activity. There is no limit on the number of supers.
Sidewalk talk
Thought the City of Bartlesville had a ordinance that new construction sites were required to add sidewalks. Along Madison between Nowata Road and Price Road, there is a new construction completed without a sidewalk and a new one going in that doesn’t appear to be adding a sidewalk on Madison. You are actually shoved off into the street to walk on Madison on the west side. Seems like the city should ensure that there is a sidewalk for all new construction on streets.
According to Engineering and Community Development Department officials, the City does require that sidewalks be installed with new construction if none exists at the site. The Spirit Church received a five-year deferment on the installation of a sidewalk along the frontage of its new facility due to its donation of land for the future extension of Pathfinder Parkway along Rice Creek Road. An existing sidewalk already exists along a portion of the second property. The owner(s) of that structure will be required to clear it of overgrown grass and construct new sidewalk along the portion of the property that currently does not have sidewalk as part of the new development.