Metro residents are invited to attend a public meeting on urban sprawl.
News Gazette staff
Sprawl is defined by Merriam-Webster
as “an irregularly spread or scattered group or mass.” Urban sprawl’s
characteristics include remote housing subdivisions jam-packed with
cookie-cutter homes, homogenous strip malls for recreational shopping,
and unhealthy fast-food chains.
When bigger isn’t better: City officials consider sprawl’s burden on municipal functions.
News Clifton Adcock
Urban sprawl is one of the biggest challenges facing Oklahoma City, Ward
2 City Councilman Ed Shadid said at a Sept. 6 community meeting held on
the issue.
Letters to the Editor Sandy Meyers
To live in Oklahoma City today is exciting. The approval by the Oklahoma
City Council to restructure Centennial Plaza or Civic Center park is a
great gift to all of us. Making this prominent property a spectacular
centerpiece for the arts and civic affairs gives us all a feeling of
pride and excitement.
No longer a shady practice, ticket scalping got the A-OK from City Council.
News Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously last week to repeal a
30-year-old ordinance capping the amount one can legally charge for an
event ticket, while also creating a ticket-scalper buffer zone around
Chesapeake Energy Arena.
News Clifton Adcock
The rain came down so hard, it resembled waves crashing outside the
floor-to-ceiling windows on the third floor of the Oklahoma City
University Meinders School of Business building.