OKC Mayor Cornett to Address Issues Facing Downtown Businesses and Residents
What: Urban Neighbor’s (UN) monthly social – The Mayor of OKC, Mick Cornett will answer questions facing downtown businesses and residents. He is expected to elaborate on issues of mass appeal such as mass transportation, MAPS 3 and other issues facing downtown.
Who: Mayor Cornett will be the guest speaker for the evening. Alex Cameron from KWTV 9 will be the guest MC.
Urban Neighbor’s is downtown’s neighborhood organization. The general public is invited and you do not need to be a member or a downtown resident to attend. The UN’s membership is made up of downtown residents, business owners, corporate citizens, and general supporters. The UN offers an official direct conduit to The City of Oklahoma City for issue development/analysis, statistical information, and project development/implementation.
When: Thursday, April 10th from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.
Where: Skirvin Hotel – One Park Avenue, OKC, OK 73102 in the Crystal Room.
Why: Downtown population is beginning to gain critical mass, business development is alive again downtown, these people need an outlet to direct their issues to the City of OKC.
How: You can attend by just showing up at 5 p.m. The Mayor is expected to begin speaking promptly at 5:30 p.m.
More: This is a great opportunity for downtown residents, businesses, and friends of downtown to engage in the city’s forward motion. For more information on Urban Neighbors or how to become a member, please visit www.urbanneighbors.org
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Mayor Cornett lamented how he would like to bring rail transit to Oklahoma City, but it’s too hard because the city is built to sprawl. “We have to build the density before we can support light rail.” He has this exactly backwards. Development follows the installation of light rail. Just like at the transit-oriented-development around DART stations in Dallas. We have the dense destinations in downtown, the medical center, and Tinker among others. We may have to use park and ride at the origins at the beginning, but the development will follow.