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RESOLUTION R-1415-40: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AMENDING THE NORMAN 2025 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLAN SO AS TO PLACE LOTS 1 THROUGH 32, BLOCK THREE, REPLAT OF MILLER ADDITION, TO NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, IN THE HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DESIGNATION AND REMOVE THE SAME FROM THE FLOODPLAIN DESIGNATION. (303, 333 AND 403 EAST BROOKS STREET)
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SYNOPSIS: The applicant, Inland American Communities Group (IACG), is proposing to develop a student based/multi-family housing development in the area east of the University of Oklahoma. The applicants are proposing to demolish and rebuild on the site currently home to Bishop's Landing Apartments. This area is located on the north side of East Brooks Street, the south side of Page Street and east of Trout Avenue. Currently, there are 11 buildings with 261 apartments and 340 bedrooms, built in the mid-1960s. The 2025 Land Use amendment request is to essentially relocate the floodplain/floodway to the east, adjacent to the Bishop Creek Tributary. The applicant will be removing several buildings currently located in the floodplain and floodway, leaving that area open. The new development will be located on the west side of the property out of the floodplain/floodway.
The subject property was designated on the Norman COMPLAN, adopted March of 1981, as Medium Density Residential in Development Tier One - Stable Urban Area. At the time of the COMPLAN adoption there was no Flood Plain designated on this property and the High Density Residential Designation did not exist. The subsequent adoption of the NORMAN 2020 Plan placed this area in the High Density Residential Designation and included a large portion on the eastern side of the property as Floodplain and a smaller area as Floodway. The 2004 adoption of the NORMAN 2025 kept the land use and floodplain/floodway designations as previously depicted on the NORMAN 2020 Plan. This area is considered to be ...
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