Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Land Use
parT ii: TULsa’s PasT and PResenT
Tulsa’s current land use conditions
Land Constraints
Tulsa’s city limits include 128,397 acres of land (200 square
miles), including 2,486 acres of lakes or rivers, 4,719 acres
of riparian habitat, about 113 acres of wetlands, and 366
acres of land with 25% or greater slopes. Floodplains are
a key environmental feature, with about 16,316 acres,
or nearly 13% of the city’s entire area impacted. These
represent the most extensive environmental constraints,
and are threaded throughout the city, as illustrated
in figure 5.
Table 1: Tulsa’s Constrained Lands
acres
Water (rivers, streams) 2,486
riparian habitat 4,719
Wetlands (including buffers) 193
Floodplain 16,316
steep slopes (25%+) 366
constraints subtotal 24,080
Source: Fregonese Associates
Figure 5: environmental Constraints
Floodplains
are one of the
city’s primary
environmental
constraints.
Note: Surface limestone
areas were not included as a
constraint for the scenarios or
build-out analysis.
Streams/Riparian (INCOG)
Open Water (INCOG)
Wetland (USGS)
Floodplain (City of Tulsa)
Slopes >25% (USGS)
Surface Limestone (INCOG)
Source: Fregonese Associates
July 2010
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