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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. O-1314-50 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 NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 8 NORTH, RANGE 2 WEST OF THE INDIAN MERIDIAN, NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE I-1, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT, AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE C-2, GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, OF SAID CITY; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF. (SOUTHEAST CORNER OF EAST CEDAR LANE ROAD AND CLASSEN BOULEVARD/U.S. HIGHWAY 77)
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SYNOPSIS: The applicant's representative submitted an application to rezone property located at the southeast corner of Classen Boulevard (Highway 77) and East Cedar Lane Road extending east to 24th Avenue S.E. This property was zoned I-1, Light Industrial District in 1967 and 1968. This rezoning request is to go from I-1, Light Industrial District to C-2, General Commercial District. The proposed uses for the site are general retail, those uses allowed under C-2, General Commercial District; there is a fueling station proposed adjacent to Classen Boulevard (Highway 77).
ANALYSIS: This specific area of southeast Norman was originally set aside under the zoning designation for industrially related uses. However, as time has passed and development has continued in southeast Norman this area is no longer suitable for industrial uses. The industrially zoned area was set aside in 1967, at a time when this area was not developed with the vast number of residential units that now exist. At the time the industrially zoned area was established it was anticipated a major industrial user was coming to Norman that would generate additional industrial uses. However, that development was never established in this area.
To the east of this proposal there are two apartment complexes, The Links and The Greens. The apartment complexes share a golf course, used b...
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