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RESOLUTION R-1617-74: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AMENDING THE NORMAN 2025 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLAN SO AS TO REMOVE PART OF THE NORTH HALF OF SECTION TWENTY-SIX, TOWNSHIP NINE NORTH, RANGE TWO WEST OF THE INDIAN MERIDIAN, TO NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE SPECIAL ENTERPRISE AREA DESIGNATION AND RETAIN THE COUNTRY RESIDENTIAL DESIGNATION. (3900 EAST ROBINSON STREET)
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SUMMARY OF REQUEST: Dr. Scears is under contract to purchase the business site previously known as Brightstar Bed & Breakfast and Wedding Chapel facility. Dr. Scears submitted an application to rezone and amend the NORMAN 2025 plan by removing the Special Enterprise Area Designation from this site, leaving the Country Residential Designation in place.
ANALYSIS OF REQUEST: This application is different in that staff required the applicant to submit an application to remove the Special Enterprise Area designation from this site because the proposed use no longer fits under guidelines to allow the Special Enterprise Area designation. The Country Residential Designation is in place for those areas not served by city water and sewer. The Country Residential Designation will remain on this site.
Under the guidelines of the NORMAN 2025 - Special Enterprise Areas are those areas accommodating limited commercial opportunities in rural, east Norman (on 20-acre minimum lots), where service oriented tourist facilities relating to Lake Thunderbird as a destination can capitalize on the rural, pastoral qualities identified and sought to be maintained in the area.
This proposal for the inpatient residential treatment facility is not a tourist facility or limited commercial opportunity; therefore, this site should not be recognized as a Special Enterprise Area.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff requested the applicant submit this NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan amendment. Staff recommends approval of this request, Resolution R-16...
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