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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE O-1516-2 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 LOT 7, BLOCK 2, COLLEY'S 1ST ADDITION, TO NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE RM-2, LOW DENSITY APARTMENT DISTRICT AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE C-3, INTENSIVE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, OF SAID CITY; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF. (601 NORTH PORTER AVENUE)
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SYNOPSIS: The applicant is requesting to rezone from RM-2, Low Density Apartment District, to C-3, Intensive Commercial District, to develop a parking lot, with a new restaurant proposed on the vacant parcel directly west of this site. This parcel was used for a parking lot since 1980 and is currently vacant.
ANALYSIS: This parcel is zoned RM-2, Low Density Apartment District which abuts R-1, Single Family Dwelling District to the east and C-3, Intensive Commercial District to the west. In 1980 a Special Use was requested and approved for a parking lot for the Norman Regional Hospital equipment storage building that occupied the parcel directly west of this site.
In April 2012, a tornado came through Downtown Norman and destroyed the building; the land has been vacant since that time. Since then, Norman Regional Hospital sold the property and the new owners are proposing to build a restaurant with a parking lot at this location. Because the Special Use on this parcel has not been used for over two years it has expired; therefore, the applicant is requesting to rezone to C-3, Intensive Commercial District for the development of a restaurant with a parking lot. The restaurant will be constructed on the parcel that fronts Porter Avenue with the parking to the east; therefore; this rezoned lot will be used for parking. This request will place both lots in the same zoning district. Because of the request to rezone to C-3 for the restaurant and a parking lot, ...
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