{"id":10548,"date":"2016-02-03T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2016-02-03T07:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:11:20","slug":"a-vision-for-turkey-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"A Vision for Turkey Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/19959585265\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/510\/19959585265_609fdebb26.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tulsa voters will get their chance to secure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turkeymtn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey Mountain Wilderness Area<\/a>&#8216;s future on April 5 this year by voting for a huge bond issue that includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/government\/vision-project-aims-to-save-turkey-mountain-land-once-targeted\/article_73bc6489-fe14-561e-80af-ce80b98ea10a.html\" target=\"_blank\">$6 million for purchasing land from private owners.<\/a> Land that almost got turned into an outlet mall last year. The public rejected that proposal but the land is still privately held and zoned for smaller development and it is only fair for the owners to be compensated and they are willing to sell at their acreage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_6927\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7215208208\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8018\/7215208208_6a5c28e248.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6927\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Turkey Mountain is a hodgepodge of land owned by the River Parks Authority, the George Kaiser Family Foundation and private landowners. Park users have the run of the place and we need to start moving toward consolidating the ownership and management. We don&#8217;t need to wake up one day to see a gas station going in.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_8624\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8177507389\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8341\/8177507389_1af082e03a.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8624\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll be at the polls on April 5 voting for the bond issue.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Posts on Turkey Mountain<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10398\" target=\"_blank\">An Update on Turkey Mountain and Helmerich Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9966\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Properties Withdraws Proposal to put an Outlet Mall on Turkey Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10398\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/i.zemanta.com\/364192885_80_80.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 83px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; background-image: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10398\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey Mountain Getting Closer to Security, Now the Focus Switches to the River Parks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsa voters will get their chance to secure Turkey Mountain Wilderness Area&#8216;s future on April 5 this year by voting for a huge bond issue that includes $6 million for purchasing land from private owners. Land that almost got turned into an outlet mall last year. The public rejected that proposal but the land is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1102,1039,1284],"class_list":["post-10548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tulsa","tag-bond-issues","tag-land-use","tag-turkey-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}