Northeast Oklahoma City scrapyard expansion now permanently scrapped

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — There are new details about a planned Northeast Oklahoma City scrapyard expansion.

News 4 brought you this story last month. The original plan was to expand the scrapyard near Northeast 10th Street and Martin Luther King Avenue.

Denyvetta Davis, president of the JFK Neighborhood Association, said that the noise coming from the scrapyard nearby is a nuisance to the area, and the possibility of an expansion didn't sit well with the neighborhood.

“It would just devastate our neighborhood,” said Davis. “The expansion is to include crushing cars. So, we were upset about that. We already have one recycling plant, crushing cars, causing explosions, impacting our neighborhood, and so to have a second one doing the same thing would be devastating to our neighborhood.”

Constant loud noises, which are said to have sounded like explosions, have left residents in the JFK neighborhood on edge, with some neighbors having complained of items falling off their walls due to the activity at the nearby scrapyard.

“The noise, the shaking of our windows,” said Davis. “Neighbors are complaining about things falling off the walls when they occur. We see smoke, there’s fire, then cracks in the walls of property.”

Well, those expansion plans have now been scrapped.

The neighborhood organized against the expansion, and the City of Oklahoma City told News 4 that those plans have now been permanently pulled from future city council meetings.