Senate Bill 484, which would impose zoning restrictions on homeless shelters in most Oklahoma cities, failed in committee Wednesday afternoon.
The bill, proposed by Sen. Lisa Standridge (R-Norman) in January and amended in February, would prohibit new homeless shelters from being approved within 3,000 feet of a school, school property, public library, municipal park, child or adult day care facility or pre-K facility in cities with less than 300,000 residents.
Tulsa and Oklahoma City are the only cities in Oklahoma with a population over 300,000…