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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE O-1617-9 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 (NE/4) OF SECTION THIRTY-ONE (31), TOWNSHIP NINE (9) NORTH, RANGE TWO (2) WEST OF THE INDIAN MERIDIAN, NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE R-3, MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING DISTRICT AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE R-1, SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING DISTRICT, OF SAID CITY; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF. (INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY: 400-500 BLOCKS OF WEST COMANCHE STREET; 400-500 BLOCKS OF WEST EUFAULA STREET; 400-600 BLOCKS OF WEST SYMMES STREET; 100-300 BLOCKS OF WEST SIDE OF UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD; 100-400 BLOCKS OF PARK DRIVE; 400 BLOCK OF ELM AVENUE; AND 400 BLOCK OF TOBERMAN DRIVE)
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SYNOPSIS: The applicant and petitioners submitted a request to rezone from R-3, Multi-Family to R-1, Single Family. According to the Zoning Ordinance, Section 442.1-Amendments, "Whenever the owners of fifty-one percent (51%) of the land in any area shall present a petition duly signed and acknowledged requesting an amendment of the regulations prescribed for such area, it shall be the duty of the City Council to vote upon such amendment within ninety (90) days of the filing of the same by the petitioners with the City Clerk." The applicant and the petitioners met the petition requirement to bring this request forward; the original application submitted included owners of 57.8% of the land area within the subject tract signing the petition in favor of the rezoning request. The applicant and petitioners are requesting this rezoning to prevent redevelopment of existing structures into allowed uses under the R-3, Multi-Family Dwelling District regulations.
ANALYSIS: This area of Norman is known as Core Norman and is directly across the street from The University of Oklahoma. Campus Corner is two blocks to the east and downtown...
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