A Victory for Neighborhoods!
Good News comes from today’s work session meeting of the TMAPC.
An enthusiastic and nearly unanimous commission authorized the TMAPC staff to work with a sub committee of the TMAPC to formulate a plan to have open discussions to determine the problems in todays neighborhoods and find solutions. “We want to determine where we want to be as a community” stated Dwayne Midget the WIN director from the Mayor’s office. We should look at including the Comprehensive Plan people so they see what is going on in the neighborhoods.
Commissioner Michelle Cantrell stated that TulsaNow organization might be interested in co-hosting this event. Commissioner Gary Sparks said this study should be “broad and well-organized.” New Commissioner Liz Wright reminded everyone that the focus should be to inform, educate and hopefully illuminate the citizenry of Tulsa. Michelle Cantrell also suggested we should have these meetings in the evenings so the neighborhood residents could attend.
This is the first step we need to bring a forward vision to Tulsa while valuing our older neighborhoods.
We must not let our delight in this development make us overconfident. We must stay in the process and make sure it continues this forward motion.
There are many issues that are at stake here and we will be working to make sure stormwater run-off, environmental impacts, demolition process, enforcement with meaningful fines, and other issues are addressed.
Thanks to all of you who have contributed your time and talent to our efforts to have neighborhood problems brought to the table.
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