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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. O-1314-44 UPON SECOND AND FINAL READING: AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AMENDING ARTICLE III, SECTION 19-303 OF CHAPTER 19 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORMAN BY ADDING A PROVISION REGARDING THE PLACEMENT OF DUMPSTER AND/OR COMPACTOR ON PROPERTY ZONED INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, OFFICE OR MULTI-FAMILY; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF.
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BACKGROUND: In 2010, City Council was approached by a homeowner requesting that City Council consider a potential ordinance amendment to regulate the placement of dumpsters adjacent to single family homes. The homeowner had concerns with the odor of a neighboring dumpster as it was located very near to the rear windows of her home. City Council then asked staff to review ordinances from other cities and to draft a proposed amendment for review by the Oversight Committee.
The Oversight Committee met to discuss this topic in September and October 2010 and January and April 2011. At the 2010 Oversight Committee meetings, the Committee reviewed ordinances from Ardmore, Broken Arrow, Lawton, Midwest City, Oklahoma City, and Stillwater. Other cities reviewed, Moore and Tulsa, did not have ordinances dealing with dumpster placement. At the January 5, 2011 meeting, the Oversight Committee requested that City staff draft amendments to the proposed Ordinance that would include a retroactivity clause to bring all dumpsters placed adjacent to single family zones or uses into compliance with a twenty-foot setback proposed by the Ordinance amendment. The Oversight Committee, at their April 2011 meeting, reviewed a final draft of the proposed changes and requested that draft be forwarded for consideration by the full City Council.
Subsequent to those meetings, City Council adopted O-1011-7 on May 24, 2011 that required any dumpster and/or compactor to be set back twenty feet from the property line where property that is zoned Industrial, Commercial...
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