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

Too much emphasis has been placed on Arkansas River Development. I have attended several of the public meetings on this issue and the proponents have not met their burden of proof regarding the benefits of the low water dams and the negative consequences of further damming of the river. I understand that the focus on the river stems, at least in part, from a need to bring more sales tax dollars into our community. However, I believe that that need could be better addressed by bringing more events to Tulsa and providing the transportation infrastructure that is needed to enable people to more easily attend these events.

Concentration on improving transportation and connectivity is the best ways to make the city unique and desirable compared to (especially) regional and national competitors.

The number one priority I'd like to see is fixed, light rail routes from the downtown connecting to places such as the University of Tulsa to the east, Brady Heights to the north, the Gathering Place/Brookside to the south, and Owen Park to the west and the encouragment of high density, transit oriented development along the routes.

My second priority would be removal of the east and south legs of the inner dispersal loop and replacement with at grade boulevards to help heal the scars and disconnection expressways have caused between downtown and the rest of the city.

Other projects I'd like to see funded are major cultural and arts programs to encourage economic development, more traditional economic development programs including perhaps a closing fund, and more downtown housing funding.

Once we make Tulsa a more livable place (better transportation/streets/infrastructure) it will be so much easier to then focus on beautification and quality of life, which will never make up for a lack of the former.

I'm all for a monorail system to help the city. Why does incog reports show adding buses is not the solution and that people would support a rail system more yet they want to waste money on buses? I have asked my entire office that is downtown and family and friend. Not a one has ever road a bus nor desire to. I feel investing in a monorail can help Downtown parking issues, highway issues as well as promote fast and easy access to different areas. It would be nice to ride from Woodland hills to the zoo then to downtown fro lunch then to The Gathering Place. And if the system is designed to help the public schools to move students rather than so many buses or for football games when parking is an issue.

I'm for developing the river but not all of it in midtown do something out south too.