The Norman Planning Commission met on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM with all nine commissioners present and a quorum established. The commission considered a consent calendar of administrative items, a major rezoning and preliminary plat for a 456-unit student housing development, a postponement request, and a controversial micro-unit apartment project that drew public opposition. Votes were taken on several items, with one approval and one postponement.
Items 5 and 6 (rezoning and preliminary plat for Ironwood Hills at East Lindsey Street between 36th and 48th Avenues SE) were withdrawn by the applicant prior to discussion.
Additionally, commissioners urged the city to explore recycling options for multifamily polycarts and to develop a strategy for pocket parks in densifying areas to ensure access to green space.
Five thirty PM. I'm gonna call the meeting to order. If I could please have a roll call. Commissioner Brewer. Commissioner McDaniel. Here. Commissioner McCowan. Commissioner Jablonsky. Here. Commissioner Byrd. Here. Commissioner McClure. Here. Commissioner Griffith. Here. Commissioner Kindle. Here. And Commissioner Parker. Here. We have a quorum. Starting with our consent items. Item number one, consideration of approval acceptance, rejection amendment andor postponement of the minutes as follows. Planning commission meeting minutes of September 11th, 2025. Item number two, consideration of approval acceptance, rejection amendment and or postponement for SFP two five two six-one. Consideration of short form plat submitted by KNL properties LLC. Golden land surveying for 2020 West Lindsay. Block B Hilltop Edition located at 2020 West Lindsay Street. Item number three, consideration of approval acceptance, rejection amendment andor postponement for COS dash two five two six-two. Consideration of Norman Rule Certificate of Survey submitted by Boognites Properties LLC, Arcoma surveying and mapping for Gregory estates generally located one quarter mile east of 144th Avenue Northeast on the north side of Indian Hills Road. And item number four, consideration of approval acceptance, rejection amendment andor postponement for COS dash two five two six-three with a variance in the minimum with requirement measured at the front building setback from 330 feet to 275.98 feet for tracks one and two and a variance in the ten acres requirement from ten acres to nine point six one acres. Moving to non-consent items, uh item number five and six to be read together. Item number five, consideration of approval section amendment and/or postponement of ordinance O two four two five-three eight, an ordinance of the council of the city of Norman, Oklahoma, amending section thirty-six-two oh one of the code of the city of Norman, so as to remove the east half of the northwest quarter of section two township eight north range two west of the Indian Meridian to Norman Cleveland County, Oklahoma from the A2 Rural Agricultural District, and place the same in a PUD planned unit development and providing for the severability thereof, south of East Lindsay Street between Thirty Sixth Avenue and Forty-eighth Avenue Southeast. Item number six consideration of approval acceptance rejection amendment and or postponement of PP 2425-12. Consideration of a preliminary plat submitted by Premium Land LLC for Ironwood Hills, a planned unit development for 77.97 acres of property generally located south of East Lindsey Street between 36th Avenue Southeast and 48th Avenue Southeast. These items have been withdrawn by the applicant. Moving now to items number seven and eight to be read together. Item number seven, consideration of approval, acceptance, rejection amendment, and or postponement of ordinance 0-2526-6, 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 4 Township 8 North Range 2 West of the Indian Meridian to Norm in Cleveland County, Oklahoma from the A2 Rural Agricultural District, and I1 Light Industrial District and place the same in a PUD planned unit development and providing for the severability thereof. 1751 East Mhoff Road. And item number eight, consideration of approval, acceptance, rejection amendment, and or postponement of PP 2526-7. Consideration of a preliminary plat submitted by Foster Family Living Trust, Crafton Toll and Associates Inc. for Coal Rain Multifamily, a planned unit development for property generally located 1,500 feet east of Class and Boulevard on the north side of Mhoff Road. And I would take the staff presentation. Hello, Laura Hoggett with the planning department. So I'll spare reading this entire slide. But we have a rezoning uh to a planned unit development to allow for the development of 32 and a half acres for a multifamily apartment complex for a total of 456 units. So the site is currently A2 with a little chunk of I1 on the south uh east corner. So the site is currently vacant to the west are a few apartment complexes, and then to the east, there's single family and uh some multifamily on the northeast corner there. So the aim uh land use designation is urban high, and there's urban high to the west, and then urban medium to the north and the east with job center to the south, just an aerial of the property. And then here's one uh Kelly made, she's not here tonight, but um kind of labeling where we have single family, multi-family. You can see Haitachi is across the street to the south, and then the two parks are shown.