Urban Tulsa Weekly

garshooter, 6/ 9/2011 - 3:16pm
"I believe it's something like this, Vision 2025 is the name of a public process to create a bright future for the residents of Tulsa County through an imaginative list capital improvement projects. Based on a vision of the future, the public created a list of projects believed to be important to realize the vision. The estimated cost to implement the entire list was about $4 billion. The participants worked long and hard to determine a shorter list of the highest priority projects. This list was broken into 4 categories and put on the ballot for the public to approve for deny issuing bonds and increasing taxes to pay for the construction of these projects. All four categories were approved by the voters and many (if not most) of the projects have been constructed. These projects are making a huge difference in the quality of life for the residents of Tulsa County. PLANiTULSA is the name given to the public process of updating the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Tulsa (not the County). As many as 10,000 Tulsa citizens participated in the development of the "Our Vision of Tulsa" and the "PLANiTULSA" documents. Combined they represent the proposed update to the Comprehensive Plan. These documents were vetted during six months of public hearings conducted by the Tulsa Area Metropolitan Planning Commission. The final documents received unanimous support from the TMAPC on July 6, 2010, and were forwarded to the City Council with a recommendation for approval. On July 22, 2010, the City Council unanimously approved PLANiTULSA and it was adopted as the new Comprehensive Plan for the City of Tulsa. The Comp Plan is a policy document intended to guide decision making to create the vision of Tulsa described in the "Our Vision for Tulsa" document."