As a comprehensive plan, planokc is a policy document used by city leaders, developers, business owners, and citizens to make decisions about future growth, development, policy, and capital improvements. The policies contained in planokc inform and guide land use decisions, helping to assure citizens that these decisions are credible and not arbitrary.
This document provides long range policy direction for land use, transportation, economic development, housing, public services, and natural and cultural resources. It serves as a guide for elected and public officials by establishing policies and priorities, and providing the framework for evaluating development proposals. It expresses our community’s vision and priorities, and describes, where, how, and in some cases, when development should occur.
Comprehensive plans have been used for many decades as an aid to decision-makers when considering the many complicated issues that arise in the process of building and maintaining a city. Like a private corporation, which plans strategically for both the short term and the long term, cities must also plan for the future so that decisions can be based on sound information, principles, and agreed-upon goals, strategies, and priorities. This organized and steady approach, enabled by Oklahoma statute, helps the City keep the long view in mind and avoid making decisions based on short-term, changeable concerns.
Engagement
Our city includes many individuals, perspectives, and landscapes, all of which contribute to the mosaic of Oklahoma City. planokc is based on an extensive community input process, which asked our diverse residents to envision an economically, socially, civically, and environmentally healthy city of the future. Throughout this process, city planners complemented community perspectives with quantifiable data about demographics, land use patterns, and development patterns. This section summarizes the public engagement process and the results of those efforts.
The planokc process was designed to provide the time needed for thoughtful public engagement and an understanding of community values and priorities. It is a plan of the people, whose sense of ownership and active participation are essential to successful implementation and community stewardship.
planokc was adopted by the Planning Commission on July 9, 2015, and by the City Council on July 21, 2015.