{"id":9536,"date":"2015-02-17T05:13:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2015-02-20T05:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:50:44","slug":"the-outlet-mall-on-turkey-mountain-moves-a-step-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9536","title":{"rendered":"The Outlet Mall on Turkey Mountain Moves a Step Further"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Properties made their first official move to make their planned outlet mall on Turkey Mountain a reality. They submitted plans to the Tulsa Metropolitan Planning Commission including a plot plan.<\/a>\u00a0 (Thank you to the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition for posting the drawing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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The drawing is oriented so that north is to the right. If you study on it you see that the eastern edge of the proposed development butts up right next to a creek. If you read the elevations you can see that that they are planning on building a reataining wall that will be up to 75 feet tall, right at the edge of the creek.<\/p>\n

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Above is a nearby shopping center, Tulsa Hills. It probably has about the same amount of elevation over the ground but is staged by two retaining walls and two sloped areas. Simon, to save space and shoehorn as big a parking lot as possible is just going with one wall.<\/p>\n

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I also don’t see any storm water retention ponds or anything so in my inexpert opinion whenever there is a strong rainstorm, instead of 48\u00a0acres of earth to help absorb and slow down runoff, it is all going to run off of the paved parking lot\u00a0and then dumped into the creek, along with whatever trash it gathers along the way, and flushed right into Lake Logan at\u00a0the West Side YMCA. I don’t think this plan is a good start.<\/p>\n