City clears way for hotel

Concrete will be poured within two weeks on a hotel planned on 32nd Street, said the developer spearheading the project.

The Muskogee City Council earlier this week approved a variance requested by Vipul Patel that he be exempt from a city ordinance that requires streets that abut property being developed to be installed.

Patel had originally requested to vacate Fondulac Street, but that would have landlocked some plots to the west of the development, which is against city ordinance, Muskogee Planning Director Gary Garvin said.

“Fondulac Street does not end, and there is platted right-of-way for it,” Garvin said. “(Patel) requested a variance that would exempt him from putting in the street.”