(a) The City of Bethany shall have full power to promote the general welfare by regulating the use of property and by controlling the development of the City through the exercise of the complete powers of planning and zoning within the City limits to the fullest extent permissible under the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this State. The exercise of the powers of planning and zoning within the City shall be in pursuance of this grant of authority, except with respect to those matters of general State concern as to which State law controls under the State Constitution. The City also may exercise powers of planning and zoning granted by the State in respect to matters of general State concern, as aforesaid, and also in respect to property situated outside the City limits.
(b) The scope of the planning function shall include, but shall not be limited to, the development and administration of a comprehensive land-use plan which will provide for the careful and thoughtful integration of residential, commercial, industrial, public, and other elements to achieve and preserve social purposes, economic values, and aesthetic quality of the neighborhoods and of other areas that compose the City.
(c) The City of Bethany shall have full authority to regulate and restrict the location of mobile homes and manufactured housing within the City of Bethany to the extent allowed a home rule city under the Oklahoma and United States Constitutions.
(d) The City of Bethany shall have full authority to regulate and restrict the location of oil, gas, and disposal wells and related appurtenances within the City, and to adopt regulations concerning oil, gas, and disposal wells and related appurtenances within the City for the general safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Bethany insofar as is consistent with the Oklahoma and United States Constitutions.
(e) The City of Bethany shall have the power to regulate, restrict, and/or prohibit the operation or disposal sites for hazardous and deleterious wastes within the City of Bethany to the fullest extent possible under the Oklahoma and United States Constitutions.
(f) The erection or construction of any dwelling unit or units of a greater density than twelve (12) dwelling units per acre is hereby prohibited within the City of Bethany, Oklahoma, except for the following: (1) dwelling units for student housing owned by accredited public or private educational institutions of higher learning within the City of Bethany, Oklahoma; or (2) dwelling units located within the Central Business Zoning District; or (3) dwelling units approved as part of a Planned Unit Development in accordance with the City of Bethany Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinances. For purposes of this section the following definitions will apply:
(1) Dwelling Unit means one room or a suite of two or more rooms designed for or used by one (1) family for living and sleeping purposes, and have one (1) kitchen or kitchenette.
(Article VIII, Section f, Amended and Approved at Election Held March 15, 1988; Amended 2-12-19)