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CONTRACT K-1718-135: A REVOCABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND GARNER CROSSING, L.L.C., IN THE AMOUNT OF $187.95 PER YEAR ALLOWING PLACEMENT OF REMOVABLE STOOP STRUCTURES FRONTING JAMES GARNER AVENUE WITHIN THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY, AND ATTACHED TO MULTI-UNIT DWELLINGS LOCATED AT 102 WEST SYMMES STREET, 410 JAMES GARNER AVENUE, AND 416 JAMES GARNER AVENUE.
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BACKGROUND: In September 2017, applicant Garner Crossing, LLC, through its managing member Peter J. Petromilli, requested a Certificate of Compliance pursuant to the Center City Form-Based Code ("CCFBC") for the construction of multi-unit dwellings located on the northwest corner of the intersection of West Symmes Street and James Garner Avenue. Once completed, the dwellings will have the following addresses: 102 West Symmes Street, 104 West Symmes Street, 106 West Symmes Street, 410 James Garner Avenue, and 416 James Garner Avenue. The pre-application conference took place on September 29, 2017 and the CCFBC Design Review Team ("DRT") met on October 16, 2017 and November 20, 2017 to discuss the project.
The property is assigned an "Urban General" frontage designation by the CCFBC. The CCFBC requires that at least one entrance to each separate structure be placed on the facades fronting James Garner Avenue and Symmes Street, as applicable. During the DRT process, the applicant submitted plans showing compliant functional doors on the building facades fronting each street, and in front of each door a shallow recessed balcony surrounded with iron railing to imitate a "Romeo and Juliet" style. Pursuant to the submitted site plan, the entrances fronting James Garner Avenue and Symmes Street were not intended to operate as functional entrances, and the site plan provided for additional entrances on the side of each separate structure to function as the primary means of ingress and egress from each building.
Subject to DRT review and comment, the Planning and...
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