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""The mayor's chief of staff said a national search would be conducted for a planning director.
"We'll search for the best planning director we can find," he said. "Any time you're looking at such an important position, you want someone with top-flight credentials."
Simonson said he is hopeful that a planning director could be in place by the beginning of summer."
Why is the Mayor's office wasting time and resources on a national search when the best planning director they could find already works for the city of Tulsa? That person is Theron Warlick, ranked #2(should have been ranked #1) on the UTW 2011 Hot 100 list published recently, right behind the Mayor.
Theron Warlick's knowledge, intimate involvement and successful guidance of the PlaniTulsa process thus far in his job as a city planner make him uniquely qualified to excel in this position. Mr. Warlick has a well earned reputation of being able to work with diverse interests across the political spectrum while earning their trust and respect. PlaniTulsa has been an oasis in the desert of the otherwise endless scorched earth political battlefield that Tulsa has become, much of the credit for this success with PlaniTulsa is due to Theron. This level of public support and trust in the guidance of our planning director will be critical to seeing the zoning code smoothly and successfully overhauled.
I'll chalk this national search for a planning director up to more wasteful, squandered, spending by the Mayor and his chief of staff.
As far as the hiring of a firm to update the city's zoning code goes, there is at least one rule that should be applied without exception:
Anybody but INCOG.
Enough about the planning director and firm to update the code search, except there is one last thing deserving of comment about this article that has leaves people guessing on this topic, will the selection of a planning director and the hiring of a firm to update the city's zoning code require Council approval?
Inquiring minds would like to know."
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