Tulsa County approves rezoning, PUD for covered RV and boat storage on Highway 75 corridor

The Tulsa County Board of County Commissioners voted to approve CZ594 and PUD880, a rezoning and planned-unit development application to allow a covered recreational vehicle and boat storage facility on roughly 10.31 acres between North Yale Avenue and U.S. Highway 75.

Kendall Davis, senior planner at INCOG, told the board the property ‘‘consists of approximately 10.31 acres located at 12,330’’ and is currently zoned agricultural. Davis said the PUD would add specific building setbacks, landscaping and screening, restricted lighting and limited access points to reduce impacts on neighboring uses and ensure compatibility with the Highway 75 planning area of the Tulsa County Comprehensive Plan.

A member of the project team, Robert Bell, described the PUD as focused on three elements: ‘‘Only thing I would add is is the PUD is really only to address 3 things,’’ he said, listing perimeter walls/fencing, a wainscot treatment visible from Highway 75 and a protected landscape area at the rear of the site. Bell said the proposal excludes uncovered outdoor storage.

After staff recommended approval (the proposal had already been cleared by the Planning Commission), the board moved, seconded and recorded affirmative votes to adopt the rezoning and associated PUD standards. The PUD limits on lighting, screening and access were discussed as designed to reduce traffic, noise and utility demand compared with other commercial or industrial uses that could locate on the corridor.

The county will apply the development standards contained in PUD880 as a condition of the approved CS zoning; further permit and site-plan reviews will follow the board-level action.