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PRESENTATION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NORMAN 2025 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLAN
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BACKGROUND: Since the 1997 adoption of the Norman 2020 Land Use and Transportation Plan (Norman 2020), and its successor, the Norman 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan (Norman 2025), adopted in 2004, the Planning and Community Development Department staff has produced an annual report on the status of development in the City of Norman. This year’s report summarizes development activity for calendar year 2014. Staff provides this annual report to Planning Commission and City Council members to allow comparison of the pace of growth anticipated by the land use plan and its companion document Norman 2025 Land Demand Analysis (Land Demand) to the actual rate of development that has occurred in the community.
This report consists of eight sections. Each section describes different aspects of development and planning that has occurred in the City of Norman during 2014. The section begins with a narrative and is followed by maps and tables that include statistical summaries of the amount, type, and location of development and construction in Norman for Calendar Year 2014. Several tables include information dating back five years. These tables put the current year’s development into a temporal context and illustrate trends and changes that have occurred in recent years.
DISCUSSION: During the last five years the total dollar value of construction has increased each year. The 2014 total construction value of $275.1 million is the highest in that five-year period and also exceeds the five-year average.
The City of Norman accepted nineteen applications for amendments to the Norman 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan in 2014. Eighteen were acted on by City Council totaling almost 200 acres, the largest of which was approximately 32 acres.
The City of Norman acted on 39 applications for rezoning during 2014, 18 more than in 2013. The largest rezoning parcel was at the southwest corner of Tecumseh and 12th Avenue NE and was an 80-acre request by Landmark Land, LLC for a PUD, which will be developed as a single family large lot development with 67 lots.
In 2014 the City processed 17 Preliminary Plats totaling almost 240 acres and including 215 lots. Twenty-two Final Plats were approved in 2013 totaling a little over 316 acres and including 450 lots. All but ten lots were in the Current Urban Service Area. Five lots were in the Country Residential Area and five were in the Future Urban Service Area.
The Zoning Ordinance was amended to modify the Non-Conforming Uses Section of the Code, to clarify the location of off-street parking spaces, to allow second homes for medical reasons, to modify when a variance is allowed and to add definitions for clarification.
RECOMMENDATION: Staff presents the Annual 2014 Status Report on Development and the Norman 2015 Plan for your review and information.