OKC Plan, 2000-2020 - City of Oklahoma City

A Planning Program for Oklahoma City
The OKC Plan will be implemented and monitored through a wide range of planning programs
carried out by the Planning Commission and staff of the City of Oklahoma City. Figure 2, page 120
illustrates the inter-relationships of these planning activities. The next section outlines basic
planning activities which are carried out to accomplish the goals and policies of the OKC Plan.
Plan Monitoring
A program for the continuous monitoring of geographic-based data keyed to planning issues and
policies will assist public officials in making decisions which are consistent with the OKC Plan.
This program will also help keep the Plan current in its assumptions.
A Plan Monitoring program would track the performance of selected measures of community
conditions including population, housing quality, and construction activity. These measures could
then be compared with established targets.
If actual conditions fall short of or exceed projected conditions, the policy implications should be
discussed. Any new policies and strategies which result should be incorporated into the OKC Plan
through appropriate Plan amendments. This approach will make the Plan a more effective
management and decision-making tool and will be preferable to the approach of updating the Plan
only at specified intervals.
Plan Amendments
Plan amendments allow the Planning Commission and City Council to respond to changing
conditions affecting growth and development in Oklahoma City. Amendments allow the Plan to
remain an effective and reasonable guide for decision-making by citizens and public officials.
All Plan amendments will follow the following process:
1. Requests for amendment may be made by the Planning Commission or City Council or by a
property owner. If approval of a particular request for rezoning or platting would represent a
major deviation from plan policies, Planning staff might recommend that the Commission
consider a plan amendment. If a plan amendment is requested by a property owner, the property
owner should state in writing how conditions have changed in the area of the request since
applicable planning policies were approved, what changes in land use and/or development area
designations are being requested, and how the City of Oklahoma City and its citizens would
benefit from the proposed changes. The request for rezoning or plat approval may be processed
by the Planning Commission concurrently with consideration of the plan amendment.
2. The request is presented to Planning Commission which determines whether to proceed with a
Plan Amendment Study. If the Planning Commission decides to proceed with a Plan
Amendment Study, then the Study is scheduled as an agenda item at a regular Commission
meeting.
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