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Tuttle council approves planned-unit development for 2309 E. Highway 37, adopts emergency clause
Summary
The Tuttle City Council approved Ordinance 2025-01, a planned-unit development review for 2309 E. Highway 37 requested by Patricia Smith, and adopted the ordinance’s emergency clause so parts of the measure take effect immediately. Council discussed parking and buffering for adjacent residences before the vote.
The Tuttle City Council voted to approve Ordinance 2025-01 (PC 2025-04), a planned-unit development (PUD) review for property at 2309 East Highway 37, on a motion and roll call that recorded three affirmative votes and one dissent. The ordinance incorporates added language to clarify how special-use permits (SUPs) and end-user proposals will be reviewed as the PUD develops.
Council and staff said the amended language is intended to give the city flexibility to address site-specific issues—parking, setbacks and buffering—when individual lots and tenants are proposed. Staff told the council the revisions put in the packet add more explicit review steps for uses that will occupy different lots in the PUD, rather than leaving those details unspecified.
Patricia Smith, the petitioner named in the ordinance, sought the PUD review to allow development of the 19-acre property; staff said the ordinance is now in final form and will allow the city to review proposed uses for parking and other site conditions as developers and end users make applications.
Mayor McLeroy cast the meeting’s only recorded no vote during the ordinance adoption, saying the change raised concerns about the council being placed in an awkward position in the future when evaluating different businesses’ parking needs. “It’s because we’re picking winners and losers,” McLeroy said, explaining his reservation that future proposals with greater parking demands could produce inconsistent outcomes for similarly zoned businesses.
After the ordinance passed, council members moved and voted to adopt the ordinance’s emergency clause, which requires four affirmative votes to enact; the roll call recorded affirmative votes from the members present on that motion, making the emergency clause effective immediately rather than waiting the standard 30 days for enactment.
What’s next: with the ordinance adopted the city will proceed to review future SUPs or tenant proposals for the PUD on a case-by-case basis, considering parking and buffering as described in the amended language. Staff said the emergency clause and the ordinance text are intended to preserve the city’s ability to condition approvals to protect adjacent residential areas.
Provenance: Council discussion begins at SEG 831 and the ordinance and emergency-clause votes conclude at SEG 1028.
