Tulsa residents speak up on Neighborhood Infill Overlay

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TULSA, Okla. — City and region planners are trying to supply much lodging options astir the Downtown Tulsa area. They are proposing a Neighborhood Infill Overlay for surrounding neighborhoods, but it is getting mixed reactions from residents of these historical neighborhoods.

People surviving successful the neighborhoods that situation downtown showed up astatine a gathering Wednesday to person their voices heard.

As the metropolis of Tulsa grows and caller developments travel to downtown, The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission is looking for opportunities to grow housing.

As portion of that vision, it projected a Neighborhood Infill Overlay oregon NIO, which would spot multi-family residential lodging successful accepted azygous household location neighborhoods.

“I enactment this due to the fact that I deliberation that expanding density is indispensable generally, but particularly astir areas with indispensable concern similar Tulsa oregon downtown Tulsa," Robert McClendon, Owens Park Resident said.

A immense bulk of his neighbors showed up to explicit their opposition.
Among them, Virginia Harrison, who has lived successful the Owens Park Neighborhood for astir 30 years.

She said the multi-family homes would alteration her neighborhood's quality and bring unwanted changes.

“The transgression goes up statistically successful neighborhoods that person a batch of the multi-family lodging and we can’t grip the parking successful these tiny small streets, you cognize the firetrucks and ambulances can’t adjacent get by if you parkland connected some sides of the streets if you person much radical surviving successful this neighborhood,” Harrison said.

Crosby Heights resident, Fletcher Stewart, said helium favors the proposal.

“The challenges that look our neighborhood, are not the aforesaid that look different downtown neighborhoods, similar Owen Park, Stewart said.

He said helium supports the imaginativeness for maturation and accidental the NIO would bring to his community.

12:50:54:53-12:51:01:44“All these vacant lots, Downtown's continued growth, each of that marque Crossby heights and perfect spot for this missing mediate housing,” Fletcher said.

The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commision voted to determination guardant with the NIO recommendation, but excluded Owen Park, Tracy Park, and Buena Vista.

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