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Tulsa will receive $75 million in 2025 from the city’s Improve Our Tulsa capital initiative, and MAPS 4 will provide Oklahoma City $55.5 million to be administered by the Oklahoma City Housing ...
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma.It has many diverse neighborhoods due to its size. Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, Highway 64, and Highway 75.
Gathering Place is a 66.5 acres (26.9 ha) park along the Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Created by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, and designed by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, the park was established September 8, 2018. It is open to the public free of charge.
Owasso, a bedroom community of 38,240 people in 2020, is the third largest city in the Tulsa metropolitan area and one of the fastest-growing in the state. Situated just north of the Tulsa International Airport and the Tulsa Zoo in Tulsa and Rogers counties, the city is connected to Tulsa by Highway 169 and contains a large base of upscale retail.
Tulsa has one major amusement park attraction, Paradise Beach Waterpark [140] (formerly Safari Joe's H2O Water Park, formerly Big Splash Water Park), featuring multi-story water slides and large wave pools. Until 2006, the city also hosted Bell's Amusement Park, which closed after Tulsa County officials declined to renew its lease agreement. [141]
The City of Tulsa manages 135 parks spread over 8,278 acres (3,350 ha). [1] This includes 2 nature centers, 6 community centers with fitness facilities, gymnasiums and meeting rooms, 2 skate parks, 2 dog parks, 4 swimming pools, 66 miles of walking trails, 186 sports fields, 93 playgrounds, 111 tennis courts, 13 water playgrounds, 17 splash pads, 61 picnic shelters, 4 golf courses and 8 disc ...
The City of Tulsa has a mayor-council form of government. This form of government has been in place since 1989, at which time Tulsa converted from a city commission form of government. The mayor is elected by the entire population and each of the 9 Councilors are elected from districts based on population. Tulsa is the county seat for Tulsa County.
Lengthy public hearings on county zoning amendments that would define convenience stores and truck stops were concluded Tuesday, but the Washington County Commissioners asked for a little more ...