Cherokee Galitsode Housing Addition receives final planning approval
Aug. 27—TAHLEQUAH — Galitsode Housing Addition received final approval from the Planning Commission on the entire plat for the subdivision on Allen Road and Bertha Parker Bypass.
Mark Capron, with Wallace Design Collective, represented the petitioners at the Aug. 27 meeting. The City Council will consider the matter at the Sept. 3 meeting for final approval.
Richard Coffron, compliance coordinator and building inspector for the city of Tahlequah, presented the plat for the subdivision to the commission.
In a record setting meeting lasting two minutes, commissioners, who had reviewed the plans digitally, unanimously approved the plat.
Coffron, stepping in for Planning and Development Director Paige Harjo, said the staff recommended approval.
Chairman Ryan Cannonie asked if there were any modifications and Coffron said no.
"This is a pretty exciting project. The Cherokee Nation [has] been working on it for some time," Capron said.
"Currently there are 24 houses completed, and another 24 are being added," Coffron said after the meeting.
The homes to be built will be two-, three- and four-bedroom models, Coffron said.
"We are as far as we can go until this plat gets filed," Capron said. "Some homes are built but in order to get any more [Certificates of Occupancy] we have to get this plat filed."
The plat includes what has been built and the proposed homes left to complete the subdivision, Capron said.
"They did a preliminary plat, which we went off of for the building, but I cannot give out finals until the final plat is approved," Coffron said.
Cherokee Nation held a grand opening on the subdivision Aug. 15. "Galitsode" is a Cherokee word meaning house.
A press release about the grand opening stated the community is a 23-acre subdivision with the 24 new homes to be constructed by funding from the Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act from Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Deputy Chief Bryan Warner.
"The act was reauthorized in 2022 with an expanded $120 million budget," states the release.
