Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Plan Chapter: Land Use
ExAMPLES OF POSSibLE
COrriDOr rEDEVELOPMENT
New centers will arrange jobs, housing,
and amenities so it is easy to walk from
one to the other.
New Centers
While Tulsa’s downtown will be a primary
housing and employment center of the city
and the region, new centers will develop
as additional employment, shopping, and
entertainment clusters.
Tulsa’s new centers will be designed to provide people with
access to many goods and services in a relatively small area,
which will make it easier to make just one trip. They also will
be designed to support the regional and local transportation
systems, since people can drive, take transit, walk or bike where
they need to go.
Tulsa’s new centers will include a range of different uses,
from large-scale office, medical or other employment clusters,
to regional retail, entertainment and recreational facilities. They
will be served by frequent bus or light rail transit and include
shared parking facilities for those who drive. As primarily
pedestrian-oriented places, they will be designed with paths and
connections that make it easy to walk and bike. New centers will
feature plazas and parks, as well as retail shops and services so
people can run errands without having to drive elsewhere. Where
appropriate, some new centers will include mixed-use housing of
moderately high densities.
Employment centers could include
hospital campuses or large offce
complexes with consolidated parking
areas and access to transit.
Places such as hospitals, office buildings, and other enterprises
with many people in one place will be a natural fit for pedestrianfriendly,
mixed-use centers. Warehousing, transportation
businesses, and large-scale manufacturers may not be as well
suited to these areas due to their unique transportation and
floorspace needs. Those employment uses will be addressed
separately in the comprehensive plan.
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