Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Land Use
parT vii: MOniTORinG THe PLan
performance measures evaluation
All the guiding principles of Our Vision for Tulsa are
impacted by the physical arrangement of land use
and transportation infrastructure and services. The
monitoring program focuses specifically on collecting
discreet data to monitor these impacts and changes.
to conduct or coordinate such an analysis. For the
purposes of evaluation of the Comprehensive Plan, the
City’s purview of interest should remain specifically
evaluation of the land use, transportation, and
economic development policies and procedures.
For example, new housing units, transit mode split
statistics, and assessed property values act as key
indicators to the type of investment and growth
happening in a place. The ability to monitor year-to-year
the type of development and transportation activity at
key geographic areas such as subareas, or census tracts
in areas of growth will allow the city to determine how
policies and strategies are influencing and spurring the
type of growth and investment described in Our Vision
for Tulsa.
additional monitoring
The monitoring program will focus specifically on new
population, housing, and job growth occurring within
small and consistent geographic areas. This monitoring
program will intentionally remain simple in structure
and simple in evaluation protocol. This will allow the
City to start small and build a manageable and reliable
system for evaluation of its policies on a consistent
basis over time.
A more complex monitoring program could describe
a robust range of conditions affecting residents’
quality of life. More comprehensive indicators such
as air quality, water consumption, school enrollment,
public health and financial condition, and average rent
rates could also be measured to provide information
on what impact this type of growth is having on the
overall quality of life in Tulsa. Such evaluation would
be highly valuable, however, the City of Tulsa should
encourage and support the activities of other agencies
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Tulsa comprehensive plan – Land Use