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Land Use

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The Goal:

A pattern of land use that makes efficient use of land, preserves important natural features, works well in conjunction with the region’s transportation system, provides economic opportunity to the region’s residents and businesses, and enhances the region’s quality of life.

Opportunity Areas

Quality Comprehensive Planning

Community planning is an orderly, open approach to reaching specific community-wide goals. A community’s comprehensive plan is the fundamental tool for ensuring that development is consistent with community resources and priorities

Policy Recommendations

What’s Being Done

Promote Fiscally Sustainable Development Patterns

In response to policy recommendations contained within the SRPP, OKI formed a partnership with ten local governments to develop the Fiscal Impact Analysis Model (FIAM). The FIAM provides local governmental decision-makers with valuable information regarding financial revenues and costs associated with new development and land use changes.

Policy Recommendations

What’s Being Done

Cohesive Land Use Throughout Region

The OKI Land Use Commission’s emphasizes the desirability for local governments to communicate, cooperate, and coordinate on the issues of transportation, land use, public facilities, natural resources, economic development, and housing

Policy Recommendations

What’s Being Done

Promote Equality

Effective public participation is a necessary foundation for planning. It builds public support and creates a unified vision on which community goals and public policies can be based. OKI maintains a Public Participation Plan and actively supports the OKI Environmental Justice Committee to ensure equitable procedures to identify the appropriate level of public participation depending on the project type and level of modification to an existing plan.

Policy Recommendations

What’s Being Done

Promote Green and Holistic Development

Optimum balance of a built community with its natural environment can be achieved when development occurs while sustaining natural systems. This balance requires fully understanding the components of a natural system and supporting development in a way that avoids harm, or even complements this system.

Policy Recommendations

What’s Being Done