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Urban Leaders fellows recommend incremental zoning changes, faith‑based housing and expanded ADU rights to address Tulsa’s housing shortfall
Summary
Two Urban Leaders fellows told councilors July 23 that Tulsa faces a roughly 13,000‑unit housing gap and proposed targeted, incremental zoning changes — including facilitating housing on faith‑based organization land and expanding accessory‑dwelling unit rights — to increase supply without broad, rapid code overhauls.
Two fellows with the Urban Leaders Fellowship presented housing research and policy recommendations to the Tulsa Urban Economic Development Committee July 23, urging “high‑impact incremental” zoning changes to help close an estimated 13,000‑unit housing gap.
Leah, identified in the record as a fellow, and her partner Jack described analysis showing about 19,000 acres of identified vacant land in Tulsa but noted much of that acreage is in nonresidential or single‑family residential zoning and therefore not immediately conducive to multifamily or “missing middle” housing. Leah said the supply analysis “unabstracts what that actually looks like,” and Jack added that favorable acreage for…
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