ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

April 16, 2015

Collaborative effort between City of Norman and OU◦ Led by a Steering Committee and an Executive

Subcommittee of the Steering Committee (1 city, 1 OU,1 appointed jointly by the City and OU.

Study area approximately 42-block area generally bounded by Gray Street on the north, the railroad tracks on the east, Boyd Street on the south and Park Avenue and Flood Avenue on the west.

What Did We Hope to Achieve? Over a six-month period, host several public meetings

and use diverse, hands-on techniques to gather community input on a vision for the future of Norman’s Center City area.

Host intensive, week-long visioning charrette to maximize hands-on participation, opinion polling, and relationship-building around the future of the Center City.

Community input becomes foundation for an illustrated, well-articulated, community-supported vision for the future of the Center City area.

Vision lays groundwork to develop land use regulations that allows the vision to be built.

Primary Goal: Make this area walkable

Smaller, well-designed units

Off-street parking does not drive the site plan

Lower perceived densities

Small footprint buildings

Simple construction

They create community

Marketability

A form-based code is a land development regulation that • fosters predictable built results and a high-

quality public realm;• uses physical form (rather than separation

of uses) as the organizing principle.When adopted by a jurisdiction, a form-based code offers a powerful alternative to conventional zoning regulation.

Conventional

ZoningDensity use, FAR

(floor area ratio),

setbacks, parking

requirements,

maximum building

heights specified

Zoning

Design

GuidelinesConventional

zoning

requirements, plus

frequency of

openings and

surface articulation

specified

Form-Based

CodesStreet and building

types (or mix of types),

build-to lines, number of

floors, and percentage

of built site frontage

specified.