Vision 2025 I-244 and OK 11 Landscape Enhancement.

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Vision 2025 I-244 and OK 11 Landscape Enhancement

Transcript of Vision 2025 I-244 and OK 11 Landscape Enhancement.

Vision 2025

I-244 and OK 11 Landscape

Enhancement

Need To Beautify Tulsa

I-44

Vision 2025

Why Trees?Enhance the quality of life in Tulsa :Clean Air means: • Improved public health• Healthier vegetation• Cleaner water sources

Working & Living among the urban forest means: • Boosted productivity in business• More outdoor activity in the community• Lower rates of childhood obesity• Lower overall stress levels of population

Why Trees?Reimagine and redevelop aging and obsolete commercial corridors and neighborhood centers.Beautifying an area means: • Raised property values• Reduced littering and vandalism

rates• Increased foot traffic.

Why Trees?Support Public Safety

Beautifying an area also means: • 40% decrease in crash rates• 48% decrease in property crimes• 56% decrease in violent crimes• 52% decrease in total crimes.

Why Trees?Begin to reverse chronically poor

public health statistics• Clean Air means: improved public health, healthier vegetation, and cleaner water sources.

• Working & Living among the urban forest means: boosted productivity in business, more outdoor activity in community, lower rates of childhood obesity, and lower overall stress levels of population.

• Beautifying an area means: raised property values, reduced littering and vandalism rates, and increased foot traffic.

• Beautifying an area also means: a possible 40% decrease in crash rates, about a 48% decrease in property crimes, about a 56% decrease in violent crimes, and a possible 52% decrease in total crimes.

$2.5 million

$1.85 million • 2200+ trees• 200,000 sq. ft. of wildflower

plots• 5 yr. of warranty and

maintenance

$500,000• Fence line remediation

$150,000• Landscape Design fees

Landscape Enhancements for I-244 and OK-11