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CONVEYANCE OF TITLE BY WARRANTY DEED FROM THE CITY OF NORMAN TO CEDAR LANE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION TO TRANSFER 2.0522 ACRES OF REAL PROPERTY LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE CEDAR LANE PARK SITE THAT WAS IN EXCESS OF PARK LAND DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS.
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BACKGROUND: In 2005, a portion of the land south of Cedar Lane Road and west of the BNSF Railroad Tracks was platted for development of Cedar Lane Addition. The Board of Park Commissioners accepted the staff recommendation at that time to accept an estimated 5 acres of park land from the developer to satisfy the Park Land Dedication ordinance of the City of Norman. As time passed, the preliminary plat for Cedar Lane Addition split into two final plats-one for Monterey Addition, and one for Cedar Lane Addition. Each addition was responsible for their portion of the required park land as development continued; which totaled 4.69 acres, once all final plats were filed. In 2010, we received a deed for 0.3258 acre of land from Monterey, which covered their obligation. The remaining acreage was to come from Cedar Lane. However, in 2011, the deed we received from Cedar Lane included not only the 4.3729 acres of required park land, but also an additional 2.0522 acres of land around and including the pond south of the park site which is shown on the plat as the Cedar Lane Common Area "C" & D/E. The deed filed at that time was a total of 6.4508 acres. It is not common practice to accept ponds and the slopes around them as a public park; as such land is prohibited by the park land ordinance from being counted as "usable park land". The remainder of the land on the 2011 Cedar Lane Addition deed north of the pond, combined with the contiguous land deeded from Monterey is all in a very good location and condition to use as a large neighborhood park for the residential developments in this section of town.
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