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RESOLUTION R-1718-25: 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 NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION SEVEN (7), TOWNSHIP NINE (9) NORTH, RANGE TWO (2) WEST OF THE INDIAN MERIDIAN, NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE VERY LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DESIGNATION AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE COMMERCIAL DESIGNATION. (4712 NORTH PORTER AVENUE)
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SUMMARY OF REQUEST: The applicant is requesting to amend the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan from Very Low Density Residential Designation to Commercial Designation and to rezone the property from A-2, Rural Agricultural District to SPUD, Simple Planned Unit Development (O-1718-31).
STAFF ANALYSIS:
There has been a change in circumstances resulting from development of the properties in the general vicinity which suggest that the proposed change will not be contrary to the public interest. This commercial corner has been in existence for the last 90 plus years. There have been new single-family homes constructed in the general vicinity in the last 90 years as the agricultural area began to develop more residentially in nature. The greater majority, if not all, of these homes in this general vicinity have been constructed on acreages. In 1983, a tract of land across Franklin Road, to the north of Hollywood Corners, was rezoned from A-2, Rural Agricultural District to TC, Tourist Commercial with Permissive Use for an Auto Sales business. The site is now utilized as a construction yard/office for a concrete contractor. The NORMAN 2020 Land Use and Transportation Plan reflected the property on the north side of Franklin Road as Very Low Density Residential. At the adoption of the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan the land use designation on the same site was amended to reflect the existing use as Commercial, as now reflected on the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan. Other tha...
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