PlaniTulsa adoption process begins!

[OurTulsa]

The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission will begin public hearings regarding their adoption of PlaniTulsa.  

The first hearing is Tuesday, February 23rd beginning at 4:00pm - 7:00pm.  A second hearing is scheduled for March 10th from 1:30pm - 4:30pm.
Both hearings will take place in City Hall in the City Council Chambers.

Read the plan here: www.planitulsa.org/plan

I've no doubts the Planning Commission is going to hear from many people.  Some will support it in full, some will strongly support parts however there WILL BE individuals there who will pick it apart and may ask the Planning Commission to modify important parts or significant portions.

If you like the Plan and want the Planning Commission to adopt it in (or pretty close to) its current form I strongly urge you to make that known to them.  They will need/want/have to be provided with counter arguments to some of the criticism they will hear.

[pmcalk]

Correction:  Feb. 23rd is a Tuesday.

[OurTulsa]

Good god, and I was reading from the PlaniTulsa website!  My eyes.  Yes - Tuesday, February 23rd.  Made the change to the post above.  Think I'm still used to them meeting only on Wednesdays and had one of my nightly brain lapses.

[PonderInc]

Here is a fascinating document from the PLANiTULSA website...the consolidated log of comments and responses on the final draft:

http://www.planitulsa.org/files/PLANiTULSA-COMMENTLog021910.pdf

This is a very useful tool to see where the pressure is coming from and how it is being applied.  It's fascinating to see that some of the developers seem to be on a chummy first name basis with Wayne Alberty, and they have obviously sent emails directly to him.  (Kudos to the PlaniTulsa process that these communications are included for all the world to see.)

Starting on page 10 of this document, take a close look at the comments that include statements like: "we think that..."  I am pretty sure that "we" is the HBA.  They are very specific in their desires to alter the public's vision for PLANiTULSA.

I have attended nearly every PLANiTULSA event for the past two years.  I can safely say that there is widespread, strong desire to protect healthy and (often) historic neighborhoods from inappropriate teardowns and infill.  The HBA seems to disagree.

Pay particular attention to the comments that were submitted on pages 10-13 of the comments log.

For example...

Comment (from HBA?) on page 12 of the comment log:
Page 52 - Areas of Stability - insert period after reinvestment and eliminate the sentence "that complements the character of the neighborhood and is consistent in form, scale, rhythm and proportions."

Response/action taken:
Replace text with: "The ideal for the Areas of Stability is to identify and maintain the valued character of an area while accommodating redevelopment, reinvestment and infill."

I'm not sure that this is strong enough.  I WANT PlaniTulsa to protect healthy neighborhoods and care about consistent form, scale, rhythm and proportions.

[TURobY]

I can't attend the meeting, but I did send my comments in for public record, and encouraged my friends and relatives to do the same.

[Kenosha]

http://tulsa-ok.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=156

PlaniTulsa Hearing on TGOV... link above.