Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Land Use
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Tulsa goal 2030
The PLANiTULSA team created four initial growth and
transportation scenarios based on past trends and public
workshop input. These were primarily “learning scenarios”,
meant to test a range of growth impacts, from the amount
land consumed by new development, to the density of
neighborhoods and job centers, and performance of the
transportation system. Tulsans were invited to review, rank,
and provide input on what they liked and disliked about
each scenario.
The survey results indicated a strong preference for the two
scenarios that focused growth on downtown (Scenario D)
and in new communities (Scenario C). Scenario A, Trends
Continue, was based on historical trends continuing over
the next 20 years. This scenario represented the least amount
of growth and investment in the city. It was based on past
trends of disaggregation of housing and jobs at the edges of
and beyond the city’s borders. Trends Continue was the least
popular scenario in the citywide survey.
Based on this public input and work with city staff and
stakeholders, the PLANiTULSA team blended the scenario
results into Tulsa 2030 Goal, which will serve as a monitoring
and performance guide for the comprehensive plan.
Compared with the initial Tulsa 2030 Goal that was built to
project Tulsa’s current trends, Tulsa 2030 Goal would result
in significant growth and reinvestment in the city.
scenario c: new Communities
scenario d: Centered City
scenario a: Trends Continue
One of the key inputs to this plan was a series of scenarios that
modeled alternative futures based on different growth and
transportation patterns. What may seem like a small change today
can have a big impact in the future. For example, the amount of
surface parking required for a retail store may seem like a minor
issue at the neighborhood scale, but over time and across the
city, the amount of land consumed just by surface parking lots
can be enormous. By adjusting specific requirements (e.g. parking
spaces required, minimum lot size per house, whether or not
retail is allowed on the ground floor of an apartment building) a
community can simulate and evaluate any number of futures.
July 2010
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