Explanation of Procedures for

REZONING PROCEDURES

If you desire to make application to have your property rezoned, the procedure is as follows:

1. Check with the Planning Department to see what your present zoning is, the designation of the zone you desire, and whether or not your request must be accompanied by an amendment of the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan.  The Planning Department Staff will be happy to help you with this.

2. The Norman Zoning Ordinance requires applicants for rezoning, or amendment to the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan Document, to submit with their application a list of the names and addresses of all property owners of record within three hundred fifty (350) feet of their request.  That radius should be increased in one hundred (100) foot increments until fifteen (15) separate ownerships are notified, or 1,000 feet, whichever comes first.  This list must be certified as current and accurate by a registered professional engineer, an attorney, a bonded abstractor, or a registered land surveyor.  This information should be submitted on the attached forms.  A map delineating the three hundred fifty (350) foot notice area will be furnished by the Planning Department to be used to complete the ownership list. The Norman Zoning Ordinance also requires that the area of each request and/or subdivisions thereof must be computed and certified by a registered engineer, architect, or qualified surveyor and submitted with the application.

3. If your request involves an amendment to the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan, a separate application must be completed and submitted requesting the amendment and explaining why and to what extent the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan should be changed.  Major NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan Amendments (involving TIER Amendments, changes in Major Streets, more than one land use change, a request of more than forty acres, or where a new Neighborhood Master Plan is required) will be considered at the second monthly Planning Commission meeting after the application has been filed.  Other NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan Amendments can be considered at any Planning Commission meeting.  Amendments to the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan will be considered as a separate item on the Agenda before and apart from your rezoning request.

4. Complete both copies of the rezoning application, and bring them and the above required material to the Planning Department at 201-A West Gray.  The Planning Staff will make sure your application is complete, and will calculate the filing fee according to the following schedule.

Agricultural and Single Family (A-1, A-2, R-1, R-1-A, RE, and PL): $200.00 plus $6.00 per acre or increment thereof.

Two-Family, Multi-Family, and Mobile Home (R-2, R-3, RM-2, RM-4, RM-6, RO): $250.00 plus $10.00 per acre or increment thereof.

Commercial (O-1, CO, C-1, C-2, C-3, TC, and CR): $300.00 plus $10.00 per acre or increment thereof.

Industrial (M-1, I-1, and I-2): $350.00 plus $10.00 per acre or increment thereof.

Special Use with no change in zoning district: $400.00 plus $10.00 per acre.

Planned Unit Developments: $500.00 plus $10.00 per acre or increment thereof.

Historic District:  $150.00 plus $5.00 per acre or increment thereof plus $5.00 per individual ownership within the notification area.

Historic District: Certificate of Appropriateness:  Applications for any building permit involving any exterior modifications for property located within a designated Historic District must first be granted a Certificate of Appropriateness by the Historic District commission.   Applications before the Historic District Commission are $75.00 per application.

Any proposed amendment of the NORMAN 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan whether or not accompanied by a rezoning request: $150.00 flat fee.

Pre-Development Informational Meeting:  $125.00 for each separate meeting that is requested.

5. Your application, along with the filing fee, must be filed at the Planning Department (201-A West Gray) before 1:30 p.m., Monday, thirty-one (31) days prior to the next Planning Commission meeting.

6. After your application and required materials are filed, legal notice of the request will be published in the Norman Transcript, as required by State Law.  You are responsible for the cost of publication.  Also at this time, every property owner within three hundred  fifty (350) feet or more of the exterior boundaries of your rezoning request (excluding streets and alleys less than three hundred (300) feet in width) is notified by letter of your request. These owners, and any other citizen, may protest if they so desire.  Should the owners of fifty percent (50%) of the land within the notice area protest your request, it will take an affirmative vote of six (6) of the nine (9) members of the City Council to rezone your property.

7. The Planning Staff will research and analyze your request and prepare a staff report with recommendation, which will be mailed to each Planning Commission member.  These staff reports will also be mailed to each applicant or to his representative.

8.  At the next scheduled Planning Commission meeting (the second Thursday of each month), your request will be considered at a public hearing.  You will be sent notice of this meeting and you or your representative must be present.  The Planning Staff will introduce your request, and you and any interested citizens will have the opportunity to speak to the Commission concerning your request.

9. At the conclusion of this public hearing the Planning Commission, by majority vote, will recommend that the ordinance to accomplish your requested rezoning either be approved or denied.  This recommendation, along with your application and rezoning ordinance, will be transmitted to the City Council.

10. After final Planning Commission action, your request will be forwarded to the City Council for First Reading approximately three (3) weeks later.  Normally, you need not be present at this meeting.

11. At the following meeting (two weeks later), the City Council will vote either to adopt or reject the proposed rezoning ordinance.  You or your representative must be present at this meeting.  At that time the City Council will have reviewed the Planning Commission minutes and recommendation.  If the ordinance is approved by the City Council, it will become effective thirty (30) days from the date of its approval.

The Planning Commission and City Council meetings are held in the Council Chambers of the Norman Municipal Building, 201 West Gray Street.  If you have any further questions, please call the Planning Department at 366-5433.