BOA-24024 Bed & Breakfast events

Lives across the street and represents ~36 petition-signing neighbors in opposition; described past code citations, ticketed events sold at auction for $8,000, parking blocking his driveway at an L-intersection, an October accident, and alleged threats from the applicant.

A nearby resident and former neighborhood association president who neither signed the petition nor fully objects; said traffic and child safety are the core concerns and that supporters mostly live outside the neighborhood.

Runs a Bruce Goff architecture festival and praised Yancey's preservation of the Goff-designed house and its significance to Tulsa and LGBTQ history.

A six-year resident worried the exception runs with the land forever, setting precedent and letting any future owner run events; noted the pickleball-court traffic overlap and questioned the timing of neighbors' support letters.

A filmmaker who shot at the house with permits and directed parking; said parking has been addressed and reported being verbally abused by an opposing neighbor.

A Tulsa Artist Fellowship producer who hosted small curator dinners at the house; suggested routing valet parking through the Peoria-side back entrance and using one designated valet service.

A resident a block and a half south who praised Yancey but urged caution about the choke-point street where most of the neighborhood's small children live.

A lifelong neighborhood resident since 1959 who argued the applicant knowingly violated zoning, does not live there, and that an event center should not be allowed in a small historic residential neighborhood.

A fifth-generation Tulsan with Experience Tulsa who hosted two small 14-person events there with shuttles/Ubers and argued the unique Goff property deserves a workable path.

Clarified that all auction proceeds from Oath Studio dinners went entirely to charity, not the applicant.

A 33-year Newport resident who called the venue use in a quiet historic neighborhood appalling and worried about the precedent of allowing commercial activity in RS-3.