Planning commission backs rezoning and land-use change near Highway 75 to allow industrial park

The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission voted unanimously July 16 to recommend rezoning a roughly 15.03-acre site west of Highway 75 and Mohawk Boulevard from RS-3 and CS to IL (Industrial, with an optional development plan) and to approve a companion comprehensive-plan amendment (CPA-121) changing the future land-use designation from Multiple Use to Employment.

Staff told the commission the IL zoning with the proposed ODP would permit an industrial park while prohibiting a low-impact medical marijuana processing use; staff recommended approval subject to the conditions in the ODP. Nathan Cross, the applicant, told the record he was available to answer questions and indicated agreement with staff’s recommendation. The commission moved and voted to recommend approval by a 7-0-0 roll call: Hood, Humphrey, Rosene Robinson, Shivel, Turner-Addison, Walker and Whitlock voted aye; Bulmash, Craddock and Fugate were absent.

According to the staff report, IL is intended as the lowest intensity industrial district where industrial activities must occur within enclosed buildings and off-site impacts such as noise, odors and dust are prohibited. Staff also noted the site contains regulatory floodplain and tributaries of Flat Rock Creek, and recommended development standards and setbacks to buffer adjacent residential uses and an elderly/retirement center. The staff recommendation referenced Comprehensive Plan goals to locate industrial uses where they minimize impacts on sensitive land uses and to maintain an adequate supply of employment land.

The commission’s recorded action is a recommendation; the transcript does not record subsequent municipal approvals or the next procedural steps.