Fighting FUD on NCDs
Past columns in Urban Tulsa Weekly have dealt with the concept of Neighborhood Conservation Districts -- a type of zoning to accommodate new building in established neighborhoods while protecting the character of the neighborhood that made new development attractive in the first place. While opponents of NCDs try to nip the idea in the bud by spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD, for short), there's now a concrete proposal that can be examined, critiqued, and compared to the alarums of the developers' lobby. In the current issue, I examine the draft Neighborhood Conservation District enabling ordinance and find it reasonable and modest in scope.
So you can read and decide for yourselves, here is the draft Neighborhood Conservation District enabling ordinance (45 KB PDF) and here is the report on NCDs by Council policy administrator Jack Blair (1.5 MB PDF).
Also in this issue, Brian Ervin has a fascinating and carefully written cover story profile of Steve Kitchell (who is associated in some vague way with but doesn't actually technically own nightclubs where bad things happen) which begins thus:
"If you libel or slander me, I'm warning you--there will be horrible consequences," said nightclub impresario Steve Kitchell during a recent telephone conversation.His ominous warning came in response to an offer to interview him after 21-year-old Eric Bell was shot to death at Club UV late last year, once again bringing the name and notoriety of longtime nightclub impresario Steve Kitchell back into the forefront of the public's attention.
This week, Ervin also covers another midtown businessman with a mixed reputation, Dan Perry of Perry Properties, owner of apartments and rental houses:
When the Houston-based Bomasada Group announced its plans last week to build a high-end, 5-story apartment complex in Brookside, many residents celebrated the development as an eventual end to the "blight" currently resting on the site at 39th St. and Rockford Ave, otherwise known as the Brookside Annex and Brookside Courtyard apartments (for the latest on that, see accompanying sidebar).A persistent attitude among many of the neighborhood residents is that the blight in question is the deliberate creation of the landlord, Dan Perry of Perry Properties.
And much, much more of interest in the latest issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly.
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Thanks for posting all of these links, Michael.
For some reason, the PDFs linked through your blog are much crisper and more legible than the same files linked through TMAPC's website.
At this point, I'll admit that I have a bit of F, U, and D about the proposed ordinance. This draft seems to be missing the process of how the Planning Commission and City Council would or could act on any proposal for a NCD.
If a NCD's Guidelines and boundaries are self-imposed by all of the property owners within the NCD, then I think this zoning provision might be able to help some neighborhoods. The key is voluntary compliance.
Thank you for providing clarity to the misinformaion published Sunday, March 9 by Ms. Janet Pearson. After reading her column for years, I was rather stunned at the lack of credible facts or information. The absence of research for the editorial was enough to undermine her trustworthiness as a journalist.