Comprehensive Plan

A photo of people standing on the bridge at the Myriad Gardens.

  

planokc is Oklahoma City’s first new comprehensive plan since 1977. It serves as the City's guide for policy, infrastructure and planning decisions for years to come, providing the path to a better quality of life and sustainable, efficient and successful development.

planokc identifies ways to maximize Oklahoma City’s strengths. Our strong economy is already driving an urban renaissance that can be nurtured to its full potential and provide fertile ground for sustainable business and employment growth. Oklahoma City is also becoming popular with young adults, and our residents have shown a determination to invest in infrastructure and quality-of-life initiatives. 

About planokc

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.

 

Contact Us

Oklahoma City Planning Department

420 W. Main St., Ste. 900
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
planokc@okc.gov
(405) 297-2406

 

Visit planokc.org to read the entire plan, download sections, or access the interactive Development Guide to see how the plan applies to a specific property.