Council hears staff brief on proposed amendments to Tulsa Metropolitan Area major street and highway plan

City planning and public works staff briefed the council on a package of amendments to the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Major Street and Highway Plan that would reduce prescribed right-of-way widths along several corridors and adjust a planned South Tulsa bridge alignment.

A planning staff member explained the plan is part of the comprehensive plan and provides an “ultimate width” or hierarchical street classification; she emphasized that changing the plan’s prescribed right-of-way widths does not remove existing lanes on the ground. “When we talk about the amendments in reducing some of that, there's no project on the ground that's gonna take lanes away,”…