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Commission recommends MPD-7 and adopts plan amendment to allow Utica Crossing redevelopment
Summary
The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission voted unanimously Dec. 3 to recommend rezoning a former industrial site to MPD-7 and to adopt CPA-125, changing ~19.5 acres from Employment to Neighborhood and Multiple Use to permit mixed-use and up to roughly 300 residential units.
The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission on Dec. 3 recommended approval of MPD-7 and adopted a related comprehensive plan amendment (CPA-125) that rezones roughly 19.5 acres at the northwest corner of E. Latimer Street and N. Utica Avenue from industrial uses to a mixed-use master planned development.
Staff told commissioners the Utica Crossing plan divides the site into a mixed-use frontage along N. Utica and a residential core. Applicant representatives said the residential component could yield approximately "300 units." Commissioners asked about parking, garage plans and how the project would transition to adjacent neighborhoods; staff and the applicant pointed to the MPD development standards that will guide lot layout, building type standards, and street design.
Cameron Walker, CEO of Green Country Habitat for Humanity, and Katie O'Melia, associate principal with TSW, participated in the project presentation and described pedestrian connections, a minimum of one acre of community green, and design controls intended to preserve neighborhood character. Mr. Bulmash disclosed he had met with the project's developers in his capacity as the mayor's senior housing advisor and stated he would "base [his] vote on the information provided and heard publicly." The commission voted 9-0 to recommend MPD-7 and to approve CPA-125 (motion by Craddock to recommend MPD-7; motion by Bulmash to adopt CPA-125; recorded votes: Ayes Bulmash, Craddock, Humphrey, Krug, Rosene Robinson, Shivel, Turner-Addison, Walker, Whitlock).
Staff recommended approval subject to the MPD-7 development standards included in the applicant's Utica Crossing Master Plan, which require compliance with city infrastructure standards and specify building-type, parking, landscaping, and open-space rules. The adopted CPA-125 changes the City's land-use map designation for the site from Employment to Neighborhood and Multiple Use, aligning the project with objectives in the Crutchfield Small Area Plan to add housing choice, support walkable mixed-use development, and activate large vacant tracts.
Next steps: the MPD-7 recommendation advances to City Council and subsequent infrastructure reviews and platting will be required before construction.
