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Planning commission backs rezoning to allow triplex at 427 West Sims
Summary
The Norman Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend rezoning at 427 West Sims from Center City form-based code (detached frontage) to a Center City planned unit development district to allow a two-story triplex that would include two one-bedroom units and one two-bedroom unit.
The Norman Planning Commission voted 8-0 to recommend approval of Ordinance O-2425-37, a rezoning request for 427 West Sims that would allow a two-story triplex on a lot currently governed by the Center City form-based code (detached frontage).
Planner Anna East Star presented the request, saying staff forwarded the applicant’s proposal to rezone the parcel to a CCPUD (Center City planned unit development) so the owner could build a triplex. East Star said the project would sit at the 25-foot required build line, and that the applicants met most form‑based-code requirements but would need to place a steel exterior stair into the eastern setback and would finish the ground‑floor units at grade.
The applicant, Mark Crittenbrink of Crittenbrink Architecture, told commissioners…
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