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CONSIDERATION OF A REVISED PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR EAGLE CLIFF SOUTH ADDITION WITH A VARIANCE IN THE CUL-DE-SAC LENGTH FOR CARACARA DRIVE/CARACARA COURT. (GENERALLY LOCATED ONE-HALF MILE SOUTH OF CEDAR LAND ROAD AND ONE-QUARTER MILE WEST OF 12TH AVENUE S.E.
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BACKGROUND: This item is a revised preliminary plat for Eagle Cliff South Addition and is generally located one-half mile south of Cedar Lane Road and one-quarter of a mile west of 12th Avenue S.E.
The Norman Board of Parks Commissioners, at its meeting of August 7, 2003, recommended fee in lieu of park land dedication.
City Council, at its meeting of October 14, 2003, adopted Ordinance No. O-0304-16 placing the majority of this property in the R-1, Single Family Residential Dwelling District and removing it from A-2, Rural Agriculture District. Planning Commission, at its meeting of October 8, 2015, recommended to City Council that the revised preliminary plat for Eagle Cliff South Addition be approved with a variance in the cul-de-sac length for Caracara Drive/Caracara Court. The original design had a public street crossing a large drainage channel. Since the cul-de-sac length is only three hundred additional feet, it is staff's opinion that the potential continued maintenance of the street crossing and drainage structure would not be in the City's best interest and recommends the street be terminated as a cul-de-sac.
The property to be final platted consists of 4.7 acres and 20 single family residential lots. The revised preliminary plat consists of a total 81.62 acres. However, 76.92 acres is either floodplain/floodway or due to excessive contours not currently proposed for development at this time.
DISCUSSION: The 20 residential lots in this addition are expected to generate approximately 240 trips per day. The traffic capacities on the surrounding arterial roadways exceed the demand for existing and proposed trips as a result of this development. No negative traffic im...
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