Quit stacking the planning and development deck with professional developers!
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julie skye
11 years ago
Awesome...we want to walk and ride our bikes all over town.
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Luke Turner
11 years ago
Five years is too long to wait. The zoning code needs to reflect the vision of PlaniTulsa.
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Pamela Mitchell
11 years ago
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With the large cycling community in Tulsa we need to be promoting bike friendly streets
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Get it done. If you want knowledge economy, it's a must.
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Jamie Jamieson
11 years ago
Thanks for expressing the purpose of a Code. It's not just red tape for the sake of it. It's for making city life more livable, for everyone.
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Lance Miller
11 years ago
Agree with all points!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Please consider using native plants when possible for landscaping. They give a unique look to Tulsa and are cheaper to maintain.
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Stephanie Arnold de Verges
11 years ago
Yes to walkable, mixed use zoning. Yes to spaces that attract rather than repel. Yes to signage that is attractive. Yes to beautification, health, wellness, and vibrancy for all!
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Jesse Fettkether
11 years ago
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Tulsa cannot compete and thrive with suburban zoning in urban areas. Dense, walkable, mixed use urban areas are a key competitive advantage over our suburban and rural neighbors!
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amanda
11 years ago
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I'm a life long Tulsa resident and making Tulsa safer and more pedestrian friendly is important to me. If Tulsa can't continue to move forward it'll be more likely that my family will move to a city with a more progressive attitude towards active transit.
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Robert
11 years ago
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Millions were spent on this plan, the city overwhelmingly came out to offer their ideas. Rejecting this plan will send a clear message. Tulsan's voices don't matter. Divert from the plan and Tulsan's will make sure to reelect representatives who actually listen.
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Leanne Benton
11 years ago
yes yes yes!!! 100% in support of the new zoning code proposal!
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William Franklin
11 years ago
I think that having the potential to use an overlay downtown would be wise. We will be having a new Small Area Plan for Downtown. Part of that plan, as one for instance, has transit corridors and possibly in the future a rail station. Those transit corridors will work best if the streets along them, or at the "stops", are pedestrian lively and transit friendly. Not all development is or can be pedestrian lively or transit friendly. In many cities they use zoning to make sure those public investments along those transit corridors and stations, pan out. Currently there essentially is no zoning downtown, it's a free for all for developers to do what they want, where they want, and what those individual developers may want, may not mesh with what the citizens have said they want, big picture. Freedom for individual developers is great, but if the citizens have a plan they wish to see implemented, then the ability to have an overlay, to add some zoning to future transit corridors and possibly near a rail station, would, from their perspective, add to their freedom to get these things done. Right now the new comprehensive plan forbids overlays in downtown. I think that language should be removed so that we can use that tool if in the future we find it would be useful. 20-30-40 years from now, we may find ourselves in the position to want to use that overlay tool to add some overlay zoning downtown.
Btw, there is language in the new code that goes a long way to make sure that any future overlay usage meshes with (improves and goes along with the intentions of) the area plans, and must pass through many oversight "checks and balances" and restrictions in order to happen (look them up if you wish). But saying no overlay can be used in downtown ever, and taking away that tool to possibly use in the future as downtown develops, does not seem wise. Crossing our fingers, hoping for developers to coordinate and implement a long range master plan with no zoning
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Bret Bradford
11 years ago
i vote yes
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Craig Immel
11 years ago
thanks for getting this petition out. I think it's time for Tulsa to join the 21st century
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Cherie Cook
11 years ago
Honestly, I don't like the overlays, I don't think we need them. I think the NA's can decide for themselves what they want and adopt their own Plan period. Less government restrictions the better.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
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100% approval for overlays is unrealistic and discouraging for potential developers. This as well as all off-street parking requirements should be eliminated if Tulsa truly wants to make mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods (for which there is a great local demand by both young and old).
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John Griffin
11 years ago
In order to make walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, character overlay districts should not require 100% approval and all off-street parking requirements should be eliminated.
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Ken Busby
11 years ago
These zoning code updates will truly make Tulsa more engaging, vibrant, and attractive to both locals and newcomers to our community!
Quit stacking the planning and development deck with professional developers!
Awesome...we want to walk and ride our bikes all over town.
Five years is too long to wait. The zoning code needs to reflect the vision of PlaniTulsa.
With the large cycling community in Tulsa we need to be promoting bike friendly streets
Get it done. If you want knowledge economy, it's a must.
Thanks for expressing the purpose of a Code. It's not just red tape for the sake of it. It's for making city life more livable, for everyone.
Agree with all points!
Please consider using native plants when possible for landscaping. They give a unique look to Tulsa and are cheaper to maintain.
Yes to walkable, mixed use zoning. Yes to spaces that attract rather than repel. Yes to signage that is attractive. Yes to beautification, health, wellness, and vibrancy for all!
Tulsa cannot compete and thrive with suburban zoning in urban areas. Dense, walkable, mixed use urban areas are a key competitive advantage over our suburban and rural neighbors!
I'm a life long Tulsa resident and making Tulsa safer and more pedestrian friendly is important to me. If Tulsa can't continue to move forward it'll be more likely that my family will move to a city with a more progressive attitude towards active transit.
Millions were spent on this plan, the city overwhelmingly came out to offer their ideas. Rejecting this plan will send a clear message. Tulsan's voices don't matter. Divert from the plan and Tulsan's will make sure to reelect representatives who actually listen.
yes yes yes!!! 100% in support of the new zoning code proposal!
I think that having the potential to use an overlay downtown would be wise. We will be having a new Small Area Plan for Downtown. Part of that plan, as one for instance, has transit corridors and possibly in the future a rail station. Those transit corridors will work best if the streets along them, or at the "stops", are pedestrian lively and transit friendly. Not all development is or can be pedestrian lively or transit friendly. In many cities they use zoning to make sure those public investments along those transit corridors and stations, pan out. Currently there essentially is no zoning downtown, it's a free for all for developers to do what they want, where they want, and what those individual developers may want, may not mesh with what the citizens have said they want, big picture. Freedom for individual developers is great, but if the citizens have a plan they wish to see implemented, then the ability to have an overlay, to add some zoning to future transit corridors and possibly near a rail station, would, from their perspective, add to their freedom to get these things done. Right now the new comprehensive plan forbids overlays in downtown. I think that language should be removed so that we can use that tool if in the future we find it would be useful. 20-30-40 years from now, we may find ourselves in the position to want to use that overlay tool to add some overlay zoning downtown. Btw, there is language in the new code that goes a long way to make sure that any future overlay usage meshes with (improves and goes along with the intentions of) the area plans, and must pass through many oversight "checks and balances" and restrictions in order to happen (look them up if you wish). But saying no overlay can be used in downtown ever, and taking away that tool to possibly use in the future as downtown develops, does not seem wise. Crossing our fingers, hoping for developers to coordinate and implement a long range master plan with no zoning
i vote yes
thanks for getting this petition out. I think it's time for Tulsa to join the 21st century
Honestly, I don't like the overlays, I don't think we need them. I think the NA's can decide for themselves what they want and adopt their own Plan period. Less government restrictions the better.
100% approval for overlays is unrealistic and discouraging for potential developers. This as well as all off-street parking requirements should be eliminated if Tulsa truly wants to make mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods (for which there is a great local demand by both young and old).
In order to make walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, character overlay districts should not require 100% approval and all off-street parking requirements should be eliminated.
These zoning code updates will truly make Tulsa more engaging, vibrant, and attractive to both locals and newcomers to our community!