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City addresses master plan zoning in Title 22 edits
EDMOND — An attempt to make Edmond’s zoning and site plan codes more compliant with industry standards for planned unit developments as master plan projects was approved 3-1 this week by the Planning Commission.
This PUD edit would remove developers from having to do a series of zonings in order to create a project, said Charles Lamb, city councilman.
“The most recent example I can name is Stonepoint,” Lamb said. “I believe there’s 12 different zonings in the Stonepoint project to comply with the underlying (PUD) district language.”
City Council members and Edmond planning staff have worked together to make zoning and site plan codes in the Title 22 document more applicable to actual city government procedures. Suggested edits will go before the City Council for final approval Dec. 14.
There would be a conflict with the Edmond Plan if a PUD would be submitted as general commercial where the map shows residential commercial or neighborhood commercial. A plan amendment must be filed if a zoning application does not conform to the Edmond Plan, Lamb said of the new Title 22 language.
“You would have to amend the plan first,” Lamb said. “You still have an upper threshold in terms of what the plan says.”
Lamb said the code would prevail when the PUD is silent with variances requested on site plan standards. Necessary information must be submitted for the Planning Commission to make a recommendation to the council or for it to make an approval, he said.
“If you’re dealing with mixed use, large-scale projects frequently, things like sensitive border yards will be described and treatments will be addressed in the design statement,” Lamb said.
Former Mayor Dan O’Neil said it is important to maintain the transparency of a PUD with a continuity preserving the history of underlying zoning.
“It creates a false sense of security,” O’Neil said of the PUD edits.
Planning Commissioner Lydia Lee warned this PUD Title 22 edit could pose greater risks for Edmond neighborhoods reaching agreements with developers. These agreements have the potential of becoming convoluted if developers sell their property to other developers who then make changes to agreements made previously between the original developer and neighborhood, she said.
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