How would you prioritize the needs to be addressed by the future City of Tulsa vision?

We need to take advantage of Tulsa's great natural asset. The Arkansas River

Priorities assuming the Vision 2025 Tax is extended. Our streets are worse than deplorable and we need a larger police force. Many of the other items will follow if we address the first two properly. I'm opposed to spending hundreds of millions of dollars on creating low water dams along the Arkansas River so we can look at silty brown water. When Tulsa had the Great Raft Race annually, everyone was warned to stay out of the water or limit their immersion for health reasons.

River development is not a priority because all you can do is look at it - and it could be a danger to individuals wanting to get into the water.

I am a big believer in the fact that people are strongly affected by their environment. I think many problems could be reduced by ensuring the environment is conducive to healthy, happy people.

Tulsa has more lane-miles of roads than it can currently or ever hope to maintain. Need to convert to one lane each direction with a center turn lane and add bike lanes. Implement traffic calming design. Use more advanced technology to rebuild expressways in order to avoid potholes. Change planning codes to allow for more city centers with multi-use. Make city more walkable. Continue to encourage development of downtown. Do not encourage more sprawl - as would be the case with the outlet mall proposals.

I would like to see practical projects emphasized in the Vision 2025 plan. I want a more walkable and bike friendly city with better public transportation. A light rail would be amazing. I would like to see more integrated mixed use parking structures downtown that get rid of the pavement eyesore (particularly around TCC/Holy Family Cathedral). I would like to see our antiquated Convention Center expanded and modernized. I would like to see our streets repaired and better lighting placed around the city. I would like to see the 6th st canal plan go forward. I do not like the recent emphasis placed on river development when there are so many other pressing needs in the city, and frankly I prefer keeping the river undeveloped in all its natural beauty. I would support Zinc dam being repaired. I would also like to see money put towards modernizing the Tulsa Public School buildings city wide.

We also need to add our support to our Tulsa Public Schools. Economic Development will not grow and be sustainable until we have quality public schools in the City of Tulsa. It is beyond time for the City to make a comprehensive statement lending its support to our schools. Business leaders will never take us seriously and real job growth will not happen until we address our schools.