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RESOLUTION R-1617-4: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AMENDING THE NORMAN 2025 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLAN SO AS TO REMOVE PART OF THE NORHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION FIFTEEN (15), TOWNSHIP NINE (9) NORTH, RANGE THREE (3) WEST OF THE INDIAN MERIDIAN, NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE INSTITUTIONAL DESIGNATION AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE COMMERCIAL DESIGNATION. (NORTHWEST CORNER OF 36TH AVENUE N.W. AND CASCADE BOULEVARD)
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SUMMARY OF REQUEST: The applicant's development proposal is to build two one-story in-line buildings for retail uses allowed in the C-1, Local Commercial District. Therefore, a land use amendment is required for this parcel from Institutional to Commercial designation.
STAFF ANALYSIS: The NORMAN 2025 Plan identifies two criteria that must be examined before a land use change is approved.
There has been a change in circumstances resulting from development of the properties in the general vicinity which suggest that the proposed change will not be contrary to the public interest.
This site has been designated as Institutional since the Norman 2020 Land Use and Transportation Plan was adopted in February 1997, and remained Institutional with the adoption of the Norman 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan in December 2004.
In 1989 Olivet Baptist Church platted part of their ownership and left the remaining land under their ownership unplatted. The church was built in the early 1990's and has not expanded since that time. Now the church is requesting a re-plat of the original plat to include the entire ownership of approximately 7.26 acres. The 7.26 acres will be one block and two lots; one will be designated as Institutional for the church and the other lot Commercial for the proposed development. The church plans to expand only to the north of their existing site that fronts Cascade Boulevard; the remaining 2.09 acres that front 36th Avenue N.W. at the corner of Cascade Boulevard ...
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