East Norman Agriculture and Watershed Overlay District

Sandra Sobrado

It is imperative that East Norman remains an agricultural area. We must protect farmers’ rights and our clean water for future generations. Development threatens this goal and must stop.

Michelle Corr

We need to keep our water supply protected and stop urban sprawl towards our lake

Supporter

We need all hands on deck to protect the watershed - rural Norman and the wildlife. This over development must stop. Data centers should be banned period - preservation over profit.

Anna

Protecting safe drinking water in our city is of the absolute utmost importance to sustain a future for our families.

Supporter

East Norman is such a large portion of the Lake Thunderbird watershed. More development will cause tremendous harm to the health of the environment and watershed. Wildlife also needs to be protected.

Annette Meyers

I live here and don’t want land destroyed, wildlife disturbed, agriculture torn apart, water polluted, and the quiet turned into chaos.

Julie Sondag

Water IS life. Our city leaders should be doing everything possible to protect our watershed.

Muriel Kemp

Life is unsustainable without water. And east Norman is in the middle of the water shed that drains into Lake Thunderbird.

Alicia Boyd

The watershed is the land that drains into the lake. When rain falls onto the developed land, it creates runoff full of toxins that then drain into our lake- which is where we get our drinking water. There's more to it than just this, though. Developed land can't absorb any of the rain water so you lose the natural absorption of the undeveloped land. I would love to see everyone unite to protect our watershed aka rural east Norman.

Amy Cerato

We must continue to protect rural east Norman’s farm and ranch land…and our water quality and supply…by limiting development east of 24th Avenue. Norman made that commitment decades ago, yet development pressure has continued to push east. Now the proposed turnpike threatens to accelerate that pressure; not just by paving over rural land, but through new interchanges, service roads, and additional land acquisition that could open even more of east Norman to development.

Barbara Boyd

I sign because water is necessary for life. The only way to have economic stability is to have a steady supply of safe drinking water. Ecology should never be seen as the enemy of progress, because progress is not possible without a safe and healthy environment.

Gala Hicks

Because of everything mentioned and the new turnpike is crossing my land.

Pam McIntosh

I believe that it is essential and absolutely necessary to protect east Norman from any zoning changes that would allow more than one single family home per ten acres (current zoning) in order to protect and preserve the important watershed, aquifer and Lake Thunderbird, the primary source of drinking water for the City of Norman.

Richard Kirby

Protect our watershed and aquifer

mellisa blevins

Save our water and farm land

Jamie Belknap

PROtecting OUR water supply and natural resources requires action now, no regrets later. WE are all in this together, regardless of our address.

Bryan Yeingst

I feel it is important to protect our watershed and our agricultural areas to act as a filter/sponge for the urban city dwellers as much as the rural parts of the community.

Christina Norman

Protect our resources

Jeremy Wance

Norman's environment is compromised. We must do what we can to stop it.

Jennifer Burwell

Clean water