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From YouTube: OKC Walkability Workshop 2012
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Highlights from a city walkability workshop hosted by the City's Office of Sustainability.
A
I'm
Jennifer
good
and
sustainability,
direct
houma
city
as
part
of
the
energy
efficiency
and
nine.
We
wanted
to
take
a
look
at
how
we
could
make
our
communities
more
walkable
and
bikeable,
as
we
talked
to
people
who
were
involved
in
urban
design
around
the
country,
Dan
Burton's
name
and
repeatedly
came
up,
and
we
were
really
excited
in
june
of
this
year
to
be
able
to
bring
dan
burton
and
sarah
bowman
from
the
walkable
livable
communities
institute
here
to
oklahoma
city,
to
offer
a
two-day
workshop.
A
Our
focus
was
on
walkability
and
neighborhoods,
so
we
reached
out
to
neighborhood
leaders
and
all
kinds
of
people
across
the
community
to
come
together
and
really
learn
about
the
principles
that
make
an
area
walkable.
We
started
out
in
the
morning
by
having
an
overview
presentation
that
talked
about
the
principles
and
elements
of
walkability.
Following
that
we
got
really
hands-on.
A
We
went
out
into
the
neighborhoods
on
the
first
day
we
did
the
Gatewood
neighborhood
walking
from
the
plaza
district
through
the
gate,
would
neighborhood
to
Gatewood
elementary
and
on
the
second
day
we
went
to
the
class
in
10,
pin
neighborhood
both
of
those
walks.
It
was
great
to
be
able
to
walk
to
an
intersection
or
a
park,
a
school
or
just
a
place
on
a
particular
street
and
talk
about
what
elements
were
working
on.
A
What
worked
in
the
afternoons
we
came
back
together
and
one
of
the
great
things
about
this
workshop
is
that
it
was
highly
interactive.
We
had
a
planning
exercise
where
people
got
really
engaged
in
looking
at
maps
of
the
areas
that
we
had
just
walked
around
the
tables
we
had
neighborhood
leaders
together
with
college
students,
urban
design
professionals,
traffic
planners
disability
advocates
all
these
people
coming
together
to
talk
about
making
improvements
to
the
built
environment
to
situate.
What
we
had
learned
in
the
context
of
Oklahoma
City.
A
We
had
a
few
great
local
speakers
come
in
to
provide
their
perspective.
We
had
Blair
Humphreys
from
the
Institute
for
quality
communities
at
the
University
of
Oklahoma,
and
he
joined
us
to
talk
about
the
history
of
the
plaza
district
and
how
these
diverse
set
of
elements
come
together
here
to
create
that
magic
that
you
see
here
in
the
plaza
district.
That
makes
it
such
a
vibrant
area.
A
We
heard
nothing
but
good
comments
as
a
result
of
this
workshop,
people
were
really
excited
to
be
there
and
I
hope
that
others
left
the
workshop
as
I
did
after
my
first
workshop
and
that's
with
a
new
eyes
to
see
the
environment
around
us
for
those
of
us
who
aren't
urban
designers
or
civil
engineers
or
people
who
work
in
this
business.
It's
really
so
empowering
to
have
the
vocabulary
to
describe
what
you're
seeing
and
have
the
language
to
be
able
to
know
what
changes
you'd
like
to
make
to
your
neighborhood.
A
We
were
really
excited
to
have
the
opportunity
to
bring
the
walkable
livable
communities
Institute
to
oklahoma
city.
At
the
same
time,
the
walkable
and
livable
communities
institute
released
a
brand
new
walking
audit
tool
kit
that
we
made
available
to
all
the
participants
at
the
workshop.
This
is
a
toolkit
that
gets
neighborhood
groups
the
ability
to
continue
working
on
walkability
back
in
their
own
communities.
It
helps
you
take
the
environments
that
you
may
have
been
around
all
your
life
and
see
them
with
new
eyes.
A
As
you
understand,
the
elements
that
come
together
to
make
a
place
feel
really
vibrant
and
exciting
and
walkable,
and
our
intention
is
for
people
to
be
able
to
go
back
to
their
neighborhoods
with
the
vocabulary
and
the
knowledge
to
explain
walkability
and
to
be
able
to
talk
about
it
in
a
way
that
elevates
the
understanding
of
walkability
for
everyone
in
the
community.
The
participants
were
so
excited
to
be
there
that
they
have
now
formed
a
walkability
group
that
is
meeting
an
ongoing
basis.
A
That
group
is
at
its
first
meeting
and
the
purpose
is
to
get
more
engaged
in
walkability
and
more
fully
learn
the
principles
and
be
able
to
serve
as
a
resource
to
neighborhoods
that
want
to
have
a
have
a
walkability
audit
or
survey
done
in
their
own
neighborhoods.
Anyone
who's
interested
in
this
resource
can
email
the
sustainability
office.
Our
email
addresses
sustainability
at
okc
gov.