OKC Plan, 2000-2020 - City of Oklahoma City

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Seek changes in state legislation to enhance the City’s ability to maintain and improve its neighborhoods including: • Laws which would speed up the demolition process for long-time boarded properties that can not be rehabilitated and • Laws which would strengthen the City’s ability to require property owners to rehabilitate or sell neglected, boarded-up properties. Develop land use and development regulations and encourage development practices that minimize adverse impacts of commercial development on adjoining residential areas and enhance positive impacts of commercial development on adjacent properties. Work with business owners to provide building, street, and parking improvements to maintain and enhance the viability of neighborhood commercial areas. Also change code enforcement policy to pro-active enforcement rather than reactive from personal complaint basis. Trash, Litter Control, and Enforcement Place an increased emphasis on the enforcement of laws against littering. Impose fines against littering in a uniform and consistent manner to build in citizens a perception that littering does carry a definite risk. Develop a co-coordinated community service program to pick up trash and place litter violators on pick up crews. Increasing the reporting of littering incidents and emphasize the issuance of citations and create and fund special enforcement teams of litter (trash) cops and encourage citizens to report littering. Support and enhance educational programs and advertising campaigns to build awareness among the public of the problems associated with littering and a commitment among citizens to stop littering. This education should begin at the elementary level and continue through high school and adult education. Continue and expand voluntary litter cleanup programs such as adopt-a-street, adopt-a-park and neighborhood cleanup days. Investigate methods for faster and direct communication to litter (trash) cops through high technology. Develop a cohesive strategy to deal with solid waste disposal including urban, rural, city, county, and all government levels. Streetscapes Encourage community and neighborhood groups to participate in existing programs to adopt a section of public area to landscape, mow and edge, and generally beautify and keep clean. Establish capital programs for enhancing the appearance of major street intersections throughout the developed city with landscaping and sidewalks. 87
Adopt and enforce an ordinance that increases required landscaping for new commercial and industrial facilities alongside highways and arterial streets, including along street frontages, at entrances, and alongside visible storage yards and above-ground parking areas. The landscaping should include indigenous materials native to the area. A program of on-going maintenance of the landscaping and the timely replacement of dead and dying trees and shrubs should be provided. Maintain streetscapes by mowing grass and weeds, and regular street sweeping. Sign Regulations Review the City’s sign regulations and adopt changes as needed to improve the appearance and effectiveness of signage throughout the City. The following proposals are among the topics that should be addressed in this review. • Cover the poles on pole signs. • Adopt limits on the size of signs that meet the advertising needs of merchants while maintaining the attractiveness of the community. • Limit the percentage of commercial window area that can be covered with business signage. • Limit temporary signs and banners to 21 days. Initiate an enhanced and proactive enforcement of the City’s sign regulations to curtail the placement of illegal signs and to ensure that signs are adequately maintained and also that unused, unsightly and broken business signs are removed. Eliminate vehicles and trailers with names on them parked in front of parking lots and right of way. Enforce removal of campaign and other illegal signs, prohibit the use of adhesive signs and support the city’s sign removal sweeps. Public Facilities Develop comprehensive design guidelines for all elements of City capital projects to include streetscapes, sidewalks along both sides of all streets and bridges, variations in paving materials, street furniture and amenities, bus stops, street lighting, traffic signals and signage, landscaping installation and maintenance, and attractive bridge design. Develop a program to beautify the exterior of public parking garages using vegetation such as spreading vines, trees, and shrubbery and encouraging more attractive facade treatments. Enhance public bus stops and bus shelters with trash containers and landscaping. Provide adequate trash containers on buses. 88
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The City of Oklahoma City OKC Plan,
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Explanatory Notes This plan provide
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Rural Neighborhoods Rural areas are
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Traditional Neighborhoods The Tradi
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areas: Achieving sustainable downto
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Regional Shopping Centers The City
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Land Use and Design
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Rural Area The Rural Area contains
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Create density and design options a
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Urban Growth Area The Urban Growth
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Promote high-quality, desirable res
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• Improve the appearance of comme
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Support programs which enable resid
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Review existing street and traffic
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Actions Adopt land use policies ta
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Protect airport runway approach zon
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Transportation
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Interstate Highways Oklahoma City i
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The map on page 37 shows that most
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Airports Oklahoma City contains eig
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In addition, Metro Transit offers s
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In addition to the increasing expen
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Railroads Union Station, at 300 SW
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Provide a definite division between
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