CITY OF OMAHA

NOTICE OF MEETING

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council members of the City of Omaha will meet on August 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM in the Legislative Chambers of the Omaha/Douglas Civic Center, 1819 Farnam Street, in Omaha, Nebraska. The purpose of this special meeting is to hold a public hearing for the 2027 proposed budget. The proposed agenda, kept continually current, shall be available for public inspection in the Omaha/Douglas Civic Center at the Office of the City Clerk, but the Council shall have the right to modify the agenda to include items of an emergency nature only at such public meeting when convened.

 

Elizabeth Butler

City Clerk

 

ALL REQUESTS FOR SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (SIGNERS) WILL REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF 48 HOURS ADVANCE NOTICE.

IF ALTERNATIVE FORMATS ARE NEEDED, ALL REQUESTS WILL REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF 72 HOURS ADVANCE NOTICE.

PLEASE NOTIFY SHERRI BROWN, (402) 444-5554, IF ARRANGEMENTS NEED TO BE MADE.

 

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CITY OF OMAHA

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

DRURY PLAZA HOTEL

REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT PLAN

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, will meet and hold a public hearing on August 25, 2026, beginning at 2:00 PM in Legislative Chambers, 1819 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68183 for the purpose of hearing testimony for:

 

Drury Plaza Hotel Project Plan.

 

Applicant/Developer: 

Jared Barbee/Mark Kohl, 

Drury Development Corporation

 

Location: 

501 South 10th Street

 

The redevelopment project plan proposes the new construction of an eight-story hotel with 210 rooms containing structured parking, meeting space, a fitness center, an indoor pool, and a third-party operated restaurant concept.

The Planning Board recommended denial of this Redevelopment Project Plan at the June 3, 2026 public hearing. 

The Redevelopment Project Plan represents a request by the Drury Development Corporation for the City’s approval of the designation of the redevelopment site as an Enhanced Employment Area (EEA) and the imposition of a general business occupation tax. The applicant has requested $7,550,000.00 in occupation tax revenue to support the project. The City of Omaha EEA Committee recommended denial of the request for an EEA designation and imposition of a general business occupation tax. The City of Omaha TIF Committee also recommended denial of the request for tax increment financing in the amount of $4.9 million. Both committees determined the project failed to meet the provisions of the City’s Downtown Hotel Incentive Policy. The total estimated project costs are $54,300,000.00.

A copy of said plan is available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office.

Anyone interested in this matter should be in attendance.  

 

Elizabeth Butler, CMC

City Clerk, City of Omaha

 

ALL REQUESTS FOR SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (SIGNERS) WILL REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF 48 HOURS ADVANCE NOTICE. 

IF ALTERNATIVE FORMATS ARE NEEDED, REQUESTS WILL REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF 72 HOURS ADVANCE NOTICE. 

PLEASE NOTIFY KIMBERLY HOESING AT (402) 444-5552 IF ARRANGEMENTS NEED TO BE MADE.

 

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AGENDA

ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

PRE-MEETING/CASE REVIEW –

11:00 A.M.

11th FLOOR – 

CENTRAL CONFERENCE ROOM

1:00 P.M. - PUBLIC HEARING

LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER – LC LEVEL

OMAHA/DOUGLAS CIVIC CENTER - 

1819 FARNAM STREET

 

LAYOVER CASES: 

Waiver of Sections 55-717(c) & 55-718(c)(2) – Variance to the screening regulations to allow for the installment of an 8’ tall, privacy fence at the exterior boundary of a required 60’ bufferyard between GI and R4/DR Districts and to the required tree plantings within the bufferyard to zero; 20710 Park Rd.

Waiver of Section 55-786(f) – Variance to the industrial fence regulations to allow a 10’ tall, greater than 50% open fence within the front yard and street side yard setbacks; 4419 & 4515 N. 24th St.

Waiver of Section 55-87 – Variance to the maximum impervious coverage from 10% to 30% to allow for the construction of a local utility services facility; SW of 138th & Bennington Rd. 

CASES:

Waiver of Section 55-146 – Variance to the required street side yard setback from 20’ to 11.5’ to allow for the construction of a garage addition; 505 S. 89th St.

Waiver of Section 55-742(b)(2) & 55-715 – Variance to the parking regulations to allow parking in the front yard setback in a residential district, to the minimum depth from 15’ to 0’, and to the minimum street yard landscaping from 55% to 0% to allow a previously constructed driveway addition to remain; 4327 Lake St.

Waiver of Section 55-246 – Variance to the required rear yard setback from 25’ to 8’ to allow for the replacement of an existing backyard deck; 3106 Woolworth Ave.

Waiver of Section 55-206 – Variance to the required front yard setback from 35’ to 18’ to allow for the replacement of an existing deck; 2923 Oak St.

Waiver of Section 55-186 - Variance to the required rear yard setback from 25’ to 14.8’ to allow for the construction of a deck addition; 15229 Corby St.

Waiver of Section 55-186 - Variance to the required front yard setback from 35’ to 28’ to allow for the replacement of an existing front deck; 12223 R St.

Waiver of Section 55-146 - Variance to the required front yard setback from 40’ to 36’ to allow for the replacement of an existing front deck; 3435 S. 114th Ave.

Waiver of Section 55-387(a) – Variance to regulations of the NBD District to allow for the construction of a three-season room addition to an existing single-family home utilizing the International Residential Code regulations; 20616 Elkhorn Dr.

Waiver of Section 55-740(e) – Variance to the hard-surface driveway requirement to allow a gravel driveway to a new outbuilding; 10424 N. 53rd St.

Waiver of Section 55-246 – Variance to the minimum lot area from 4,000 sq. ft. to 2,291 sq. ft. and to the minimum lot width from 40’ to 30’ in order to replat the properties into two lots and construct two single-family homes; 1806 & 1808 Corby St.

Waiver of Section 55-186 – Variance to the minimum lot width from 50’ to 40’ and 48’ in order to replat the properties into two lots and construct two single-family homes; 5632 N. 29th St. & 5353 N. 33rd Ave.

Waiver of Section 55-764(d)(2) – Variance to the capacity limitations for a Daycare Services (General) use in a R5 district from 12 to 164 individuals; 4200 N. 204th St.

Waiver of Section 55-186 – Variance to the required rear yard setback from 25’ to 15’ to allow for the construction of a covered patio; 1703 S. 150th St.

Waiver of Section 55-186 – Variance to the required front yard setback from 35’ to 25’ to allow for the construction of a front deck; 3516 N. 50th St.

Waiver of Section 55-186 – Variance to the required front yard setback from 35’ to 26’ to allow for the replacement of an existing front deck; 12420 Oak St.

Waiver of Section 55-186 – Variance to the required front yard setback from 35’ to 24’ to allow for the replacement of an existing front deck; 3967 Iowa St.

Waiver of Section 55-126 – Variance to the required interior side yard setback from 25’ to 10.5’ to allow for the replacement of an existing deck; 6147 Country Club Rd.

Waiver of Sections 55-715 – Variance to the minimum depth from 15’ to 0’ to allow for a circle driveway; 2444 S. 182nd Cir.

Waiver of Sections 55-186 & 55-734 – Variance to the required front yard setback from 35’ to 25’, to the interior side yard setback from 5’ to 2.8’, and to the number of off-street parking stalls from 2 to 1 to allow for the construction of six single-family homes; NE of 24th & Fort Sts.

Waiver of Section 55-206 – Variance to the required front yard setback on a double-frontage property from 35’ to 2’ to allow for the construction of a detached garage; 2436 Larimore Ave.

Waiver of Section 55-166 – Variance to the maximum impervious coverage from 45% to 52.3% to allow for the construction of a concrete patio; 681 N. 57th St.

Waiver of Section 55-783 – Variance to the maximum height of a flagpole in the GO District from 150’ to 181’; 10825 Farnam Dr.

Waiver of Section 55-830 – Variance to the maximum signage budget for a civic use in a residential district from 32 sq. ft. to 213 sq. ft. and to the maximum sign area for a wall sign from 32 sq. ft. to 34 sq. ft. to allow for the installation of two wall signs for an existing elementary school; 1312 Robertson Dr.

Waiver of Section 55-834 – Variance to the maximum signage budget for a civic use in an office district from 60 sq. ft. to 143 sq. ft. to allow for the installation of a signage plan for a new YMCA; 3501 Ames Ave.

Waiver of Section 55-786(e) – Variance to the residential fence regulations to allow a 16’ tall, chain-link fence as part of a renovations to the existing baseball fields within a city park (Gallagher Park); 2936 N. 52nd St.

Waiver of Section 55-742(b)(2) & 55-715 – Variance to the parking regulations to allow parking in the front yard setback in a residential district and to the minimum street yard landscaping from 60% to 53% to allow for a driveway addition; 6315 Pacific St.

Waiver of Section 55-837 – Variance to the maximum signage budget from 109 sq. ft. to 160 sq. ft. and to the permitted sign types in the NBD District to allow for off-premises advertising signage not otherwise permitted in order to allow for a new monument sign for business center identification; 20603 Elkhorn Dr.

Waiver of Section 55-740(f)(4) – Variance to the minimum perimeter landscaping between an unenclosed parking facility and residential district from 10’ to 5’ to allow for the construction of a parking lot; 2601 N. 24th St.

Waiver of Section 55-740(f)(4) – Variance to the minimum perimeter landscaping between an unenclosed parking facility and street property lines from 10’ to 2’ to allow for the construction of a parking lot; 2999 & 3003 S. 28th Ave.

Waiver of Sections 55-734 & 55-716 – Variance to the required off-street parking from 26 stalls to 0 stalls and to the bufferyard between GI and R4 districts from 60’ to 0’ to allow for the proposed renovation of an existing industrial building; 2819 Bondesson St.

Waiver of Sections 55-716, 55-740(f)(4), 55-934(e)(4), & 55-934(b)(2) – Variance to the required bufferyard between CC and R3 from 30’ to 1’, to the perimeter parking lot landscaping from 5’ to 2’, to the minimum perimeter parking lot landscaping depth along street frontages in an urban design district from 15’ to 0’, and to the maximum height for a Category 3 retaining wall in an Urban Design Overlay District from 10’ to 16’ to allow for the redevelopment of the site for a carwash facility; SE of 72nd & Farnam Sts.

 

NOTE: All requests for sign language interpreters (signers) will require a minimum of 48 hours advance notice.  If necessary, contact the Board Secretary at (402) 444-5150 x2061.

 

The Zoning Board of Appeals reserves the right to amend the above agenda. The Zoning Board of Appeals agenda and other information regarding the Zoning Board of Appeals and Planning Department are available on the Internet at http://www.cityofomaha.org/planning. The agendas available on the Internet are subject to change and are for convenience purposes only.  A copy of the official agenda, kept continually current, shall be available for public inspection at the office of the Omaha Planning Department, 1819 Farnam Street, Suite 1100, Omaha, Nebraska, during normal business hours.

Prior to the hearing, the applicant may schedule a time to review the City’s case file during normal business hours by contacting the Planning Department at (402) 444-5150 ext. 2051.  If an alternative (audio version) to this agenda is necessary, please notify the Board Secretary at (402) 444-5150 ext. 2061, 72 hours in advance.

 

Jake Placzek

Zoning Board of Appeals Administrator

 

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