A. Purpose.
1. A PUD is a zoning classification that combines the zoning, subdivision, and site plan processes in a manner that benefits the City by creating community character and the developer by expanding development options and flexibility, and reducing uncertainty.
2. It is not the purpose of a PUD to maximize lot yield or to deviate from the standard zoning regulations without clear benefits to the City. The City will only consider a PUD when the warrants listed in Subsection C below will result from the development.
B. Goals.
1. Every PUD should achieve a development outcome that is superior to that possible through general zoning districts, addresses the needs of the development market for greater flexibility and certainty, and supports the desire of the City to achieve the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan.
2. The following types of development can only be achieved by use of a PUD and are encouraged by the City:
a. Mixtures of residential types, densities, dwelling sizes and heights, lot sizes and widths, and design character in a single cohesive manner throughout the development;
b. Mixtures of residential types with specific nonresidential uses in appropriate locations relative to residential, and with standards to ensure the compatibility and design integration of all uses;
c. Mixtures of nonresidential development limited to specific uses, and the exclusion of other uses that may not be desirable in a given PUD; and
d. Clustered development in units that preserves meaningful open space, protects natural resources, provides corridors for linear parks and bikeways, buffers different use types, buffers streams, wetlands, and floodplains to improve water quality and minimize flood risk, and provides areas for active and passive recreation opportunities.
3. Creation of a development framework that provides both the developer and the City flexibility, within predetermined codified parameters, with appropriate Commission and Council oversight.
C. Warrants. To obtain approval of a PUD, the applicant must submit a site development plan, concept plan, plats, parks and recreation schematic plans, amenity plans, building design elevations, a written narrative describing the development standards proposed to govern the PUD, and other documents to demonstrate that the development, if approved, will be of a higher quality than a standard development, will yield a substantial community benefit, and will result in other benefits, such as:
1. An efficient provision of infrastructure that sustains the natural environment;
2. Continuity of the roadway system that effectively distributes and calms traffic both within and through the development;
3. Pedestrian systems via on-street bicycle lanes or off-street bicycle trails and sidewalks that improve pedestrian and bicycle circulation;
4. Good transitioning of housing types within the development and with development adjacent to the PUD;
5. Protection and preservation of natural resources and valued or sensitive land features; and
6. Improved development quality that includes landscape and other decorative treatments along perimeter collector and arterial streets and the perimeter of the development.
The greater flexibility afforded to the developer to best utilize the physical features of the site must result in a commensurate exchange of greater public benefits than would otherwise be achieved through non-PUD development procedures under this Title.
D. Applicability.
1. A PUD application may be submitted for land located within any general zoning district or combination of general zoning districts. In every instance, the PUD is to be reviewed as to the proposed location and character of the uses and the unified treatment of the development of the tract.
2. A PUD approved prior to the effective date of this Title shall be carried forth in full force and effect, and all conditions, restrictions, regulations, and requirements that apply to the respective PUD shown on the Official Zoning Map at the date of adoption.
E. Effect of Approval.
1. Upon approval of a PUD, no modification of use or bulk and area requirements that would have applied under general zoning standards shall be effectuated by issuance of any building or zoning clearance permit until a subdivision plat incorporating the provisions and requirements of the PUD is approved by the City and duly filed of record in the office of the County Clerk of Tulsa County.
2. Upon approval of a PUD, the existing zoning will cease to exist and the property shall be rezoned to “PUD”, subject to all of the requirements adopted by the City Council in the ordinance that establishes the PUD. (Ord. 746, 11-14-2017)