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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. O-1415-12 UPON SECOND AND FINAL READING: AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AMENDING SECTION 460 OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORMAN SO AS TO REMOVE PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION EIGHTEEN (18), TOWNSHIP NINE (9) NORTH, RANGE TWO (2) WEST OF THE INDIAN MERIDIAN, NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE I-1, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT, AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE R-1, SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING DISTRICT, OF SAID CITY; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF. (EAST SIDE OF 12TH AVENUE N.W. APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF MILE NORTH OF ROCK CREEK ROAD)
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SYNOPSIS: The applicant submitted a request to rezone property located along the east side of 12th Avenue N.W. approximately one-half mile north of Rock Creek Road. This site is located north of the Forest Lumber site. The owner is requesting to rezone this property from I-1, Light Industrial District to R-1, Single Family Dwelling District. This property was zoned I-1 with Ordinance No. 2314 in September of 1970. The application for this approximately ten-acre property proposes forty-two single-family lots.
ANALYSIS: This area of north Norman, generally located north of Rock Creek Road, east of 12th Avenue NW, west of N. Porter Avenue and south of Tecumseh Road, was previously zoned both I-1, Light Industrial District and A-2, Rural Agricultural District. The area has gone through a great deal of growth in recent years with eight residential developments, consisting of approximately 1,500 single-family lots, zoned R-1, Single Family Dwelling District and PUD, Planned Unit Development Districts all developed with single-family homes.
ALTERNATIVES/ISSUES:
DENSITY: The proposal is roughly ten acres with forty-two single-family lots; density is calculated at 4.2 units per acre.
OPEN SPACE: This proposal has 1.43 acres within the plat set aside as open space. The open space designated along the northern por...
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