No offence but your ideas are pipedreams. People own the building you would have demolished and having these residents displaced would not only be expensive but unnecessary. most of these ideas are for nothing more than changing how things look. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
@-OAK-
3 ай бұрын
Most projects that are built, buy housing and destroy it. The land I suggested has mostly abandoned buildings and barely any housing at all, OKC built lake Hefner when it was so much poorer than it is now, so if they could do that back then it surely wouldn’t be that expensive to do my idea. Also I said that bigger bodies of water are proven to improve the quality of life, as well as walkable neighborhoods, so the stuff I said would do more than just aesthetic. Oak OKC which is being built rn bought and destroyed housing to build, that’s just how it works, once OKC runs out of parking they will have to resort to destroying suburbs for more stuff, so it’s best to take this advantage of there being almost nothing on this part of land and expanding the river before there’s actual stuff, there’s so much land in OKC and almost no water, it would improve the city so much.
@Bland-79
3 ай бұрын
@@-OAK- First of all parking wouldn't be an issue if liberals weren't so obsessed with their hate for cars. Cars made America. Their is more tan enough room to build parking. Also doing everything you said would stifle development long term because it would need to be subsidized meaning higher taxes. The reason OKC is growing is because of low taxes and cheaper housing. Don't turn OKC into another liberal money pit.
@-OAK-
3 ай бұрын
@@Bland-79 I don’t know where you got cars from, but this doesn’t mean that it will get too expensive because of something like this, a lot of Texas cities and cities in the south in general are affordable yet they are big. So idk how a simple thing as shaping a river would make it “a expensive liberal city” not only that but expensive liberal cities are growing, like Austin. The only places that would become more expensive are the places next to the river, it’s not going to magically make the entire city more expensive, cost comes from the location not the city boundaries
@Bland-79
3 ай бұрын
@@-OAK- Austin is pretty but a playground for the rich and upper middleclass moving away from California. It will become unaffordable soon enough if it isn't already. High taxes and anti car and suburb policies kill cities. You would think people moving away from California would know better than to do the same things that made California unaffordable.
@Bland-79
3 ай бұрын
@@-OAK- I'm referring to raising taxes on citizens who prefer suburban car centric lifestyle so they can waste it on things are hardly used and destroying needed highways and parking lots to do it.
@jerrytherobot
3 ай бұрын
This man loves his city
@-OAK-
3 ай бұрын
What makes it weird is that I’ve lived 12 years of my life in California and the other 3 in Oklahoma and I just prefer ok over cal although a lot of people would find that weird
@AngelRivera-de1lq
3 ай бұрын
@@-OAK- nah, okc is a great city imo. I actually just stayed in downtown LA, cool place but too expensive and kinda depressing
@-OAK-
3 ай бұрын
@@AngelRivera-de1lq I’ve I have spent my 12 years of cali in San Diego, it’s good for retirement but it’s a horrible city to grow up in, it doesn’t have much good food options. And there’s nothing entertaining, it’s just views of the ocean and mountains. And I’ve been to LA a couple times, it’s good for going to a theme park but besides that it’s kinda meh. And I’m a big fan of architecture, and San Diego and LA have some of the worst architecture for a big city I’ve seen, the only ones with worse architecture is Miami.
@MrMannyfresh78
2 ай бұрын
You have some great ideas. I’d also love to see some improvements in transportation like expanding the light rail to Penn Square and the airport. I’d also love to see continued development of the NW Expy area into sort of a second urban area/“edge city” like out east. More than anything, OKC needs more mixed use high and mid rise density in midtown/downtown. Love the passion for our city! New sub :)
@-OAK-
2 ай бұрын
@@MrMannyfresh78 I didn’t say it in the video but one of my ideas is filling all of the empty parking spaces in downtown with 5 story apartments, 40 parking lots could be filled with apartments for less than 100million. Another idea idea is shrinking the borders of the city so that more developments are pushed closer to downtown in order to stay in city limit’s. In order for transit to work the city needs to be more dense and less sprawled, so density should be a priority. I’ve sent these ideas to the mayor on Instagram and he’s seen them
@gasmangrowshow2231
3 ай бұрын
I love the way the WD looks. Good idea about painting the bridges blue.
@smackindabox
3 ай бұрын
Expanding the river and building a giant cowboy not going to turn OKC into NYC, LA, Chicago or Houston anytime soon 😂😂😂.. tbh be happy with what you got, rapid growth sounds great until you can no longer afford to live in your city and hardly even recognize it 😅
@smackindabox
3 ай бұрын
You should prolly check into a career in city planning or management tho. You would prolly be pretty good at it
@-OAK-
3 ай бұрын
Yea, but it will at-least make the city look better, even if it doesn’t really impact it’s growth, either way that legends tower would
@smackindabox
3 ай бұрын
@@-OAK- you have vision I’ll give u that. Most city leaders don’t.
@afroabroad
2 ай бұрын
If it’s a statue in OKC it better be native.
@colemartin4851
3 ай бұрын
what about the hurricane possibilities?
@-OAK-
3 ай бұрын
What? It has to be next to a ocean for that?? This is just a wide river
@colemartin4851
3 ай бұрын
@@-OAK-I just now realized that, I originally thought that because a place was next to water they had the chance of hurricanes other than that though this is a solid idea
@smackindabox
3 ай бұрын
@@colemartin4851 😂 bruh Oklahoma even at its furthest southern border is never going to get hit by a hurricane much less OKC 😂
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