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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. O-1314-45 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 LOTS 63, 64 AND 65, BLOCK 2, LARSH'S UNIVERSITY ADDITION, TO NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE C-2, GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE C-3, INTENSIVE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, OF SAID CITY; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF. (735 ASP AVENUE)
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SYNOPSIS: The applicant, Orange Development, Inc., doing business as CVS Pharmacy, is proposing to locate a new store at 735 Asp Avenue. This rezoning application is only for 735 Asp Avenue. The business will occupy 735-745 Asp Avenue, however, 745 is already zoned C-3, Intensive Commercial District.
ANALYSIS: This subject tract is located in the Campus Corner area, just southeast of the Asp Avenue and White Street intersection. The centrally located commercial areas of Norman have been zoned, for the most part, C-3, Intensive Commercial District for many years.
The current zoning for 735, the northern piece of the building, is C-2, General Commercial District and has been zoned as such since Ordinance No. 1938, November 1966. This zoning was changed from R-3, Multi-Family Dwelling District. At the time of that rezoning request there was C-3 zoning to the south of this proposal already in place. The Planning Commission and City Council, at that time, believed the C-2 request was appropriate and created a buffer between the commercial area to the south and the residential area to the north.
The zoning for 745 Asp Avenue, the southern piece of this building, is C-3, Intensive Commercial District and has been zoned as such since Ordinance No. 884, the original zoning for the City of Norman, adopted July 13, 1954. In fact, the current zoning along the east side of Asp Avenue from 745 Asp Avenue all the way down to the corner of Boyd Street...
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