Public meeting on development near Turkey Mountain tonight
“We would like time to talk with the public while Simon Properties (the project developer) is present and field questions,” Biby said in a statement from the group. “But at this time, the public is only being presented with one side.”
Turkey Mountain and traffic at heart of west Tulsans’ concerns about proposed outlet mall
Several people in the audience, including Kaye Price, challenged Reynolds’ assertion. Price said she has seen renderings that show that the retaining wall on the east side of the mall would be visible from a ledge on Turkey Mountain.
“What you see now (in Reynolds’ rendering) is a little bit of trees,” Price said. “But from the top of the ridge your view is a 50-foot retaining wall. That is also what the children” at a YMCA camp would see.
Simon appears reluctant to share any of its 2,000 parking spaces with trail users. Instead, the company plans to go to the George Kaiser Family Foundation (one of the property owners adjacent to the proposed mall site) and see if the foundation would mind tearing up its property to put an additional 50 or so parking spaces and trailhead access. It’s been communicated to Simon that trail users do not want to sacrifice even more wild land for parking.
Public meeting set on proposed outlet mall near Turkey Mountain
“I have been getting numerous emails from all over Tulsa County and the surrounding area who are not in favor of it,” Cue said.
“On this proposal, on something this controversial, the first I heard of any public outreach was in the last few days after plans had already been submitted to the Planning Commission,” Bynum said. “And I have yet to hear from a single Tulsan who likes the proposal.”
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