THE TULSA TRIBUNE. TULSA. OKLAHOMA
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TMAPC Plans 'Open Space' Parks
Efforts will be made to start
a piJjft^park along one of Tulsa's!' creeks or streams later
this year, in order that the
metropolitan area's proposed
Open Space Plan of park development, illustrated in the
photo above, may be put into
operation.
Don Osgood, director of the
Tulsa Metropolitan Area Plan-
^Commission, made the<
statement to city and county officials who gathered at Central
Library for the unveiling of the
new study.
"We need to get something
going so Tulsans can find out
at first hand what it is all
about," he said.
Osgood said he has no idea
where the pilot park might be
located, but said there are a
number of excellent locations
scattered about the city and
!county.
THE STUDY, completed at a
cost of $27,000, would replace
the area's "Green Belt" plan
for park development, designed
in 1959, which has never been
implemented.
Osgood plans to make a series
of presentations of the plan to
civic clubs and organizations—
to get the reactions of citizens—
before asking for formal approval and inclusion in the
area's comprehensive plan.
It will be a month or more
before TMAPC will hold a for-
mal hearing. Then the plan
must be approved by the Tulsa
city and county commissions.
The "Green Belt" was to be
a strip of park land around the
fringe of the city. It failed to
materialize because much of it
lay in the path not only of residential, but of industrial growth.
THE REPORT stated there
were 5,192 acres of land available for recreation at the end
of last year. By 1990, it estimated, an additional 4,458 acres
would be needed.
Utilizing wooded stream areas,
as has been done in Washing- j
ton, is fei^ble, Osgood said,
because iBkould eliminate ]
much of the costly flood-control measures which would be.H
necessary if the areas were de-j
veloped for residential or com-;
mercial uses. He pointed out
that a mile of flooded /.plain
along Flat Rock Creek, north of/ L
Tulsa, could be purchased fori J
$200,000; but it will cost $630,|
000 per mile for flood control
work if the area is commeii-
cially developed.
Land would be acquiren
through the years, but ne^
zoning legislation must be env
acted, Osgood said, before the
complete Open Space Plan carl
be effected.
Glen R. Turner, former!
TMAPC director, now asso4
ciated with Hudgins, Thompson,!
Ball & Associates, architects and
planners, suggested that devet
opers might give a substantial
amount of the land needed tq
stain park improvements.
