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DRAFT Goal: Livability

Integrate land use and transportation for more livable, healthy communities.

In order to enhance the quality of life in Central Oklahoma, we can encourage people to live healthy, active, and happy lives by promoting alternate forms of transportation and land uses, as well as strengthening neighborhood connections.

Strategies

1. Increase accessibility to and between centers of activity.

Increase access to all transportation modes, and remove barriers so that every Central Oklahoman can get around with ease.

 

2. Strengthen integration of land use and transportation to create active, healthy communities.

Improve the connections among parks, residential areas, commercial districts, and transportation corridors. Provide guidance to municipalities regarding pedestrian and transit oriented development.

 

3. Promote alternate transportation including biking, carpooling, rail, transit, and walking.

The automobile is just one of the many methods of transportation.

 

—4. Encourage visually attractive streetscapes.

Attractive streetscapes encourage economic and social activity. The region should promote such developments, preserve views and landscapes, and incorporate existing green spaces, where appropriate and possible.

 

—5. Improve and increase walkability of the region.

Encourage municipalities to develop sidewalks and trails that provide adequate safety features for pedestrians and vehicles. Communities should adopt pedestrian oriented ordinances that support a safe, reliable, and complete sidewalk and trail network.

 

—Challenges to consider:

  • How do we manage sprawl?

  • How do we overcome the historical focus on the automobile?

  • How do we encourage land use policy and development that supports alternative modes of transportation?