Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Parks, Trails and Open Space
Parks, Trails and Open space
part ii:
Public input
planiTulsa Workshops
More than 1,500 participants attended a series of
public events during the PLANiTULSA planning
process including several city-wide workshops and
seven small area workshops. Participants worked
in groups to produce over 200 maps depicting their
visions for Tulsa’s future. The resulting maps, showing
how participants would accommodate future growth
through land use and transportation changes, indicated
a commonly held desire to increase the amount of
pedestrian and bicycle connections across the city, to
make it easier to travel from neighborhoods to places of
work, to schools, natural areas, and downtown. Figure
1 shows a composite workshop map where participants
indicated a desire for new trails, bike boulevards, or
other bike and pedestrian transportation infrastructure.
In particular, participants in small area workshops
noted how the parks and open space system could be
improved in their respective communities.
figure 1: PlaniTulsa Workshop Bike and Pedestrian Trails
in north Tulsa, participants said
they want more trails to take
advantage of natural areas
and two new parks to serve
existing neighborhoods with
higher density development.
Participants in east Tulsa said
they want better access to
parks and trails, to increase
bike connections from
neighborhoods, and to utilize
the natural corridors within
floodplain areas for trails and
pedestrian links.
Source: Fregonese Associates
July 2010
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