Yukon officials still hope to annex roads shared with Oklahoma City

Currently, many of the boundary roads between the cities are in need of repair, Yukon City Manager Grayson Bottom said. About 19 miles of shared roads exist between the two cities, primarily along W Wilshire Avenue, Sara Road and NW 10 Street.

“You have to do an analysis of the road not only today, but also years ahead so you know what your maintenance responsibility is years out,” he said. “We don't want to be unfair to one another.”

Last spring, Yukon annexed a portion of Mustang Road in front of the new high school between NW 10 and E Vandament Road. Renamed Yukon Parkway, the transfer smoothed the ruffled feathers of many Yukon residents who disdained the idea of having their high school along a road named after longtime rivals the Mustang Broncos.

Bottom said the shared boundaries often create a headache in terms of road repair and which city responds.

Near Yukon High School on Yukon Parkway is Covenant Community Church. After the name change, church workers had the task of switching to a new address after decades of having a Mustang Road address.

Church office manager Jody McBride said the post office agreed to deliver to both addresses for a year. At first, computer searches for the location would direct traffic to an address on Yukon Avenue, or it simply wouldn't find the correct place. Those problems have largely been resolved, but for public functions and on the church's website, the address is listed as formerly being on N Mustang Road.