Norman Planning Commission Meeting – August 14, 2025: Rezonings, Plats, and Public Comment
Norman Planning Commission Meeting – August 14, 2025
The Norman Planning Commission met on August 14, 2025, at 5:30 PM to consider several rezoning requests, preliminary plats, and a special use permit. The meeting included a consent calendar, public testimony, and discussion on six main agenda items. The commission approved all items with modifications as noted, including a condition for 80% masonry on a planned unit development.
Consent Calendar
- Item 1: Approved the Planning Commission meeting minutes of July 10, 2025.
- Item 2: Approved Preliminary Plat PP-2526-4 for St. James Center, Section Two (5.77 acres, southwest corner of East Cedar Lane Road and 24th Avenue Southeast), submitted by Heritage Fine Home Investments LLC.
- Item 3: Approved Preliminary Plat PP-2526-5 for 1508 Shady Brook Drive (9.76 acres), submitted by James and Jackie Palisano.
- All consent items were approved by unanimous vote.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Lisa Summers (3417 Larry Street, resident of 41 years) opposed the St. James Park PUD (Items 7 & 8), stating she preferred the area remain R1 single-family residential and expressed concerns about the proposed smaller lot sizes and the undeveloped park area being used by homeless individuals.
Discussion Items
- Items 4 & 5 – North Flood Business Park SPUD: Rezoning from A2 Rural Agricultural and I2 Heavy Industrial to SPUD (Simple Planned Unit Development) and preliminary plat for 3.65 acres north of West Tecumseh Road on North Flood Avenue. The applicant (Power Homes LLC) proposed six commercial/industrial buildings (3,500–5,000 sq ft each). Discussion focused on building height limits (no height specified in SPUD, but FAA regulations apply due to proximity to the airport) and exterior materials. The applicant agreed to add an 80% masonry requirement. The commission approved the motion with that condition.
- Item 6 – Cruz In Auto Spa Rezoning: Rezoning from C1 Local Commercial to C2 General Commercial with a special use permit for a bar, lounge, or tavern at 3250 West Robinson Street. The business (second location, first on Main Street) plans to serve beer and wine to customers waiting for auto services. The commission approved unanimously.
- Items 7 & 8 – St. James Park PUD: Rezoning from R1 to PUD and preliminary plat for 95.08 acres near the northeast corner of Classen Boulevard and Cedar Lane Road. The plan includes 373 single-family lots with two development areas: Area 1 (6,000 sq ft lots, 40 ft wide) and Area 2 (3,500 sq ft lots, 30 ft wide). Discussion covered open space (2.5% within the plat, but applicant argued nearby parks and deeded green space should count), traffic connectivity, and compatibility with adjacent neighborhoods. The commission approved 7-0.
- Items 9 & 10 – 1751 East Mhoff Road: Requested postponement to September 11, 2025; approved unanimously.
- Items 11 & 12 – Hutner Industrial Park: Rezoning from PUD to I-1 Light Industrial and preliminary plat for 6.18 acres at 5451 Hutner Drive. Six industrial lots (approx. 40,000 sq ft total) are proposed. Approved unanimously.
Key Outcomes
- Items 4 & 5: Approved with condition that the SPUD include an 80% minimum masonry requirement for all buildings.
- Item 6: Approved as presented.
- Items 7 & 8: Approved (7-0). The commission noted the need for ongoing park development and traffic improvements but did not impose additional conditions.
- Items 9 & 10: Postponed to September 11, 2025.
- Items 11 & 12: Approved.
- Miscellaneous: Staff discussed the upcoming zoning and subdivision regulations RFP (due August 25, 2025) and a parking study. Commissioners expressed interest in exploring smaller lot sizes and reduced setbacks, with some caution about premature changes before the new zoning code is adopted.
Meeting Transcript
At five thirty PM, I'm going to call the meeting to order. If I could please have a roll call. Commissioner Brewer. Here. Commissioner McDaniel? Here. Commissioner McCowan? Here. Commissioner Jablonsky. Here. Commissioner Byrd. Here. Commissioner McClure. Commissioner Griffith. Commissioner Kendall? Here. Commissioner Parker. Here. Starting with our consent items. Item number one consideration of approval acceptance, rejection amendment, and or postponement of the minutes that follows. Planning Commission meeting minutes of July tenth, twenty twenty-five. Item number two, consideration of approval, acceptance, rejection amendment, and or postponement of PP two five two six dash four. Consideration of a preliminary plat submitted by Heritage Fine Home Investments LLC, Crafton Toll and Associates, Inc. for St. James Center, Section Two, for five point seven seven acres of property generally located at the southwest corner of East Cedar Lane Road and Twenty Fourth Avenue Southeast. Item number three, consideration of approval, acceptance, rejection, amendment, and or postponement of PP two five two six-five. Consideration of a preliminary plat submitted by James and Jackie Palisano, Johnson and Associates for one five zero eight Shady Brook Drive for nine point seven six acres of property located at one five zero eight Shady Book Drive. Does any member of the commission wish to remove any item from the consent docket? Does any member of the audience wish to remove any item from the consent docket? Seeing none, I would take a motion. Move to approve. Second it. And a vote. You may vote. All votes have been cast. Moving to our non-consent items, we'll read items four and five together. Item number four, consideration of approval, acceptance, rejection amendment, and or postponement of ordinance 0-2526-4. An ordinance of the Council of the City of Norman, Oklahoma, amending section 36-201 of the Code of the City of Norman so as to remove the southwest quarter of Section 12, Township 9 North, Range 3 West of the Indian Meridian, to Norman Cleveland County, Oklahoma, from the A2 Rural Agricultural District and I2 Heavy Industrial District, and place the same in SPUD simple planned unit development and providing for the severability thereof, generally located north of West Tecumseh Road on North Flood Avenue. And item number five, consideration of approval, acceptance, rejection amendment, and or postponement of PP-2526-3. Consideration of a preliminary plat submitted by Power Homes LLC, SMC Consulting Engineers PC for North Flood Business Park, a simple planned unit development for 3.65 acres of property generally located north of West Tecumseh Road on North Flood Avenue. I would take the staff presentation. Hello, Justin Fish here of the Planning Department as stated this is a rezoning from A2 and I2 to SPUD civil planning and development. And it is accompanied by a preliminary plat. So this is the subject property with the existing zonings of surrounding properties. There are PUDs located to the east and to the south, with I2 located across uh North Flood Avenue to the east or the west, and there is A1 located to the north. These are the existing land uses of or the surrounding properties. There is a residential use to the north of the subject parcel, and there appears to be an abandoned building to the south with a military facility across North Flood Avenue to the west. This is an aerial photo taken in 2023. This is a photo looking north on North Flood Avenue. A photo looking south on North Flood Avenue.
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