Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA
Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA
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Land Use<br />
parT v: BUiLdinG THe PLan<br />
Transportation Building Blocks<br />
This section describes the land use implications of<br />
<strong>Tulsa</strong>’s transportation needs; a more detailed discussion<br />
of transportation goals and policies can be found in<br />
the Transportation Chapter. The two fundamental<br />
transportation building blocks are an expanded transit<br />
system and a network of multi-modal streets.<br />
multi-modal street system<br />
The first transportation building block is the multimodal<br />
street system. A multi-modal street balances<br />
the needs of all modes of travel, giving people the<br />
option to walk, bike, ride transit or drive. The street<br />
types include Main Streets, Multi-Modal Streets,<br />
Commuter Streets and Residential Collectors.<br />
These street types attempt to strike a balance between<br />
functional classification, adjacent land use, and the<br />
competing travel needs.<br />
This approach diverges from conventional street<br />
designs that emphasize automobile mobility and speed<br />
to the exclusion of other users. At the same time, it<br />
retains the city’s existing classification system of<br />
arterials, collectors and local streets. Instead, it presents<br />
criteria to better classify their function and guide the<br />
redevelopment of existing facilities and the design of<br />
new ones. The conversion to multi-modal streets will<br />
occur incrementally as roads are re-designed, small<br />
area plans recommend changes to the road character<br />
and on-street bicycle facilities are needed to link<br />
key destinations and connect the off-street trails to<br />
neighborhoods. Further details can be found in the<br />
Transportation Chapter.<br />
Table 6: Relating Transportation Building<br />
Blocks to Land Use Building Blocks<br />
land use<br />
Building<br />
Blocks<br />
Transportation Building Blocks<br />
main<br />
streets<br />
multimodal<br />
streets<br />
commuter<br />
streets<br />
residential<br />
collector<br />
streets<br />
downtown y y x y<br />
centers y y Z y<br />
corridors y y Z x<br />
new<br />
residential<br />
existing<br />
residential<br />
x Z x y<br />
x Z Z y<br />
employment x y y x<br />
x = not applicable; y = applicable; Z = acceptable<br />
hoW TransporTaTion Building<br />
Blocks relaTe To land use<br />
The overarching approach to integrating land<br />
uses and transportation facilities is known as<br />
Context sensitive solutions (Css). This process,<br />
described in the Transportation Chapter,<br />
provides more detailed direction for balancing<br />
or prioritizing the infrastructure for each mode<br />
of travel in the context of the adjacent land<br />
uses. Css takes an interdisciplinary approach<br />
to street design that will further encourage<br />
coordination between traffc engineers, planners,<br />
urban designers, architects, emergency response<br />
offcials, and the community when designing<br />
new streets or reconstructing existing streets.<br />
This approach fosters communication with those<br />
designing other elements of the community and<br />
results in better facilities and places.<br />
July 2010<br />
LU<br />
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