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RESOLUTION NO. R-1112-131: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, ADOPTING THE ORIGINAL TOWNSITE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CITY’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
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BACKGROUND: The Norman 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan adopted in 2004 recommended the establishment of a neighborhood planning program with a dedicated City staff member to manage the process. The program would be designed to “engage neighborhoods in Norman’s Core Area in a participatory planning process to directly address such issues as land use compatibility, parking, circulation, and neighborhood improvements.” The 2025 Plan also recommended that “the Planning Commission and City Council would adopt each of the neighborhood plans as an element of the City’s Comprehensive Plan.” The City Council adopted its first two neighborhood plans under this new program in 2007.
This update of the Original Townsite Neighborhood Plan is a considerable expansion from the Plan originally written in 1990. While limited in scope, that plan has served the neighborhood well for the past twenty years. Residents have met annually to discuss issues and review the neighborhood goals laid out in the 1990 plan and establish spending priorities for CDBG funds. Each year, they have identified infrastructure improvement projects based on goals established in the 1990 plan. The time has come to update the plan for a new generation of residents who are responding to a changing social and economic climate and different neighborhood priorities.
DISCUSSION: The Original Townsite Plan is the City’s sixth neighborhood plan to be considered for adoption. Neighborhood boundaries are the south side of Gray Street, the east side of Porter Avenue, the north side of Alameda and the west side of Reed Avenue.
Initial work on the plan began with neighborhood meetings held in 2007 and 2008, followed by field surveys conducted in 2009. Completion of the Original Townsite Neighborhood Plan was de...
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