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Originally posted by Conan71
Not going to say your conclusions are wrong. They make sense, but considering Tulsa's history, how do we keep the planning districts and their planners from becoming beholden to the Bumgarners of the world and being totally perverted by various special interests and in-fighting?
I'm a big fan of
clean elections and the district representative elections should be non-partisan.
Nothing is perfect, but I think the saying "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried" sums it up best. It would be a vast improvement over the unaccountable, quasi-governmental, private bureaucracy that lords over planning and development known as INCOG that we currently have.
How do we get the ball rolling? The Council could put this on the ballot this November for voters to decide with whatever other charter changes they see fit to send to a public vote. Of course, the Council could be bypassed with an initiative petition to put it on the ballot, also.