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"IF, this is the building I think it is, it pains me to say it, but its a blight to the Whittier Square area. Its aims to help low income people are good, and I am glad to see the services being provided,,,,but.... Tulsa is trying, and should be trying to create more pedestrian friendly/transit friendly areas, especially for poor people who are often the largest users of transit in our city. Creating a pedestrian/transit friendly area means you build the building up to the sidewalk, and if you have parking, put it behind the building. This building does not do that. It adds another break in the pedestrian streetscape and hurts the efforts to make the Whittier Square area more pedestrian and transit friendly for everyone, including the poorest who need and use transit the most. Every new building that goes in needs to help our budding, pedestrian friendly areas, not do just the opposite and hurt them like this building does. On another note, if our new comprehensive plan was in place, this building would have not been allowed to be built with the parking in front of it like it has. Many people in the community worked to create that comprehensive plan. Many people in the community wanted to see the Whittier Square are become more pedestrian and transit friendly. Why the people who "placed" this building didn't care and basically flipped their middle finger at the efforts and desire to create a better, more pedestrian and transit friendly area, did this I do not know. But its a shame. And this is not the only example of this type of "placing" going on in areas that really NEED good, effective, easily useable transit for the people who most need and use it. And then the sad thing is that so many then complain about how much transit costs and wonder why more people don't use it. If you can't get to the transit easily and comfortably, and when you can't get off the transit and have an enjoyable, comfortable walk to lots of different places and services... people arent going to use it as much and it will cost you a lot more to operate your transit (thats money taken away from other city services btw). Design matters. Street design and placement of buildings matters. The people of Tulsa, of north Tulsa, have said as much. Why, again, the people who placed this building ignored that, have chosen to not make things better and more cost effective in this matter, baffles me. What a shame that something so obvious and easly done was so blatantly ignored."
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