Developing Our Community

 

By: Neil Dailey

This week the City of Tulsa hosted "developing our community," a community forum for understanding and integrating development processes in Tulsa.

The program began with keynote speaker, Don Himelfarb-City of Tulsa Director of Economics, talking about the creation of the Economic Development Department and the city's role in creating and assisting growth in Tulsa under the Taylor administration. Himelfarb also touched on various issues including the relocation of city hall,  redevelopment around the bok arena with retail, office space and loft style residential properties. 

Pat Treadway, City of Tulsa Planning Department Manager, focused his attention on the revision of the Comprehensive Plan for the city. Treadway stated that there hasn't been a major revision of the total Cmprehensive Plan since the mid 1970's. Treadway introduced "PLANitTulsa" as the new planning process and produced a request from the office of the Mayor to attend public meetings for citywide planning. You can see more about PLANitTulsa at www.planittulsa.org.

 

The entire program was very informative with presentations by the Tulsa Preservation Society, local builders of downtown and midtown properties, neighborhood leaders, City of Tulsa Planning Department on the subject of Comprehensive Plan revisions and INCOG on navigating the city's zoning issues.