People, as well as the developers, architects, real estate attorneys, etc are going to have to all be pulling in the same direction for "development" such as this to become a Reality.
Sorry, "Every Tulsan" is not a licensed contractor, developer, architect, nor do they have the funds to make this reality.
A comprehensive plan is supposed to represent the vision of a community. (What we want our city to be and become in the future.) It's supposed to represent our values. And it's supposed to create a framework that guides development according to the vision and values of the community. You don't have to be a professional developer to have a right to participate.
The zoning code and development processes should support that vision, and should serve the public interest by encouraging wise development.
The city we have today is the result of a million different actions and decisions that have taken place over the past 100 years. It's the combination of our land use rules, our city ordinances, our building/safety codes, our transportation plans, our public investment in infrastructure, and the work of thousands of individual developers/builders/property owners responding to the opportunities that can be achieved within this framework.
The rules are not arbitrary. They should protect the public interest...b/c without the benefits of public investment, your little private enterprise would sit alone on the prairie with no running water, no sewer, no access (no transportation system!), no one to call when disaster strikes, no one to settle disputes, no community to attract employees or customers, and no school system to educate future employees and customers. So the public DOES have a say in all this.
Even if we are not all professional developers, we are all stakeholders.
