I believe all my references have been based on that c2c presentation which you have posted the links to.

So again that presentaion is a point of reference. There should have been discussion with input from the public as what was good with the plan, what is missing from the plan, and what was not liked with the plan. If the next phase of planning is occuring right now with Haregreaves to procduce the next plan for c2c, has information been provided to Haregreaves on the strength and minuses as seen by the community been included in the programing?

Yes all this discussion is speculative and the plan will change as time goes on.

Only after review and discussion can we make sure the process results in a final concept that can be supported and hopefully implemented.

I’m fond of OkcTalk as you may know and participate there regularly, much more than you have. For what I write in my blog articles, though, I require sources which are particularly, and verifiably, identified and I don’t base my articles on what anonymous posters have to say.

My feelings are that your link to the drawings are the only plans that have been put out by the c2c steering committee.

Those drawings are a point of reference. Discussion should be occurring about what is proposed… and the results of that discussion should be part of the input for the hargreaves concept. Otherwise the drawings are just pictures drawn up and PAID FOR that have no value. Just public money being spend creating a “placemarker”.

Too often after a plan is presented there is little possiblity in making larger changes to the process or to even change direction with the plan.

Thanks again for calling attention to my C2S article. Since you posted it, at this counting, of the 666 or so hits in my blog since then, 170 derive from OkcCentral and presumably your post (I may have miscounted, but that should be close).

That said, I’m not getting much feedback on the article … 1 comment in the blog article, 3 e-mails and a couple of comments here. I also e-mailed the mayor and 3 council members a link to the article as well as some other comments. The mayor and council member Skip Kelly acknowledged receipt and expressed kind remarks (more of a personal nature and not having to do with the substance of the article which they’d not then read). I’ve received no response as yet from my friend Pete White or my own council member Meg Salyer whom I’ve not met.

Anyway, this follows up the C2S article you linked to before I put it down and turn again to Okc’s history. I’ve just received by e-mail a fascinating story about an early-day Oklahoma Citian (probably unknown by everyone) from one of her distant relatives. Her male ancestor came to Oklahoma City using his mother’s maiden name (for anonymity) since he’d apparently fled a mining operation in Butte, Montana, fearing for his life — he didn’t want anyone to know where he might be found. His sisters living in Denver presumed him dead for 20 or more years and were stunned in the late 1930s when he dropped in for a visit. Great stuff!

Anyway, I hope that the C2S article is helpful to some and I certainly got satisfaction from doing it and it helped me form at least some conclusions of my own in the process.