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Welcome to Kendall-Whittier. This website connects residents with neighborhood news, meetings and events, community resources, neighborhood history, and opportunities to get involved. Whether you are new to the neighborhood or have lived here for years, you'll find information about local issues, organizations, public meetings, and ways to help strengthen our community.
Kendall-Whittier Residents Association Meetings
Kendall-Whittier Residents Association Meetings
Second Saturday of every month at noon
Kendall-Whittier Library
21 South Lewis Avenue
KWRA gives current Kendall-Whittier residents a space to talk with one another about neighborhood issues, share information, form their own views, and work together on concerns that affect daily life.
Free to attend. Informal. No experience needed. No dues. No obligations. No RSVP required. Children welcome. Accessible. Free parking. Come when you can. Listen, speak up, or just meet your neighbors.
What We Talk About
Crime and public safety • Walking and bicycling • Streets, sidewalks and utilities • Environment • Pets and wildlife • Planning and development • Neighborhood cleanup • Local events and announcements
Current Issues: What’s happening in Kendall-Whittier now.
Current Issues: What’s happening in Kendall-Whittier now.
Tulsa Public Schools closures and consolidation — including the proposed closure of Sequoyah Elementary and possible effects on Kendall-Whittier Elementary and neighborhood families.
Farmers Market parking & library access — use of the Kendall-Whittier Library parking lot during the market and the effect on library patrons and visitors.
Street lighting & responsibility — who owns, controls and maintains lighting in and around the commercial district when responsibility is divided among the City, PSO, KWMS and/or KWID.
Different zoning treatment between neighborhoods — especially the contrast between proposed NIO rules and neighborhood-character protections used in places such as Renaissance and Florence Park.
Neighborhood Infill Overlay — SA-8 & ZCA-38
Neighborhood Infill Overlay — SA-8 & ZCA-38
The proposed Neighborhood Infill Overlay would allow six-unit apartment or condominium buildings by right on many typical 50-by-150-foot Kendall-Whittier residential lots. The proposed rules would allow 3-foot side setbacks and 5-foot rear setbacks, buildings up to 35 feet high, and would cut minimum residential parking requirements by 50 percent. A six-unit building could therefore require only three off-street parking spaces.
The City is proposing to extend these rules into part of northern Kendall-Whittier through SA-8. City staff justified the Kendall-Whittier portion in part by pointing to the small portion of the proposed area that the adopted Kendall-Whittier Sector Plan designates as medium-density residential. The Sector Plan itself distinguishes between low-, medium- and high-density areas and says development in low-density areas should be integrated with the existing neighborhood in scale and form.
This may lead to the overlay being extended into the rest of Kendall-Whittier in the near future. The City says there has been interest in continuing to expand the NIO into additional neighborhoods. If the City is willing to override the more detailed Kendall-Whittier planning framework in the northern part of the neighborhood, residents have reason to ask what would prevent the same approach from being used in the rest of Kendall-Whittier later.
Resident representation & public decision-making — notice, public participation, organizational influence and who is speaking for Kendall-Whittier in decisions affecting the neighborhood.
Transportation & infrastructure — sidewalks, crossings, bicycle facilities, transit, streets, utilities and highway-related conditions.
Housing, infill & redevelopment — new construction, density, parking, affordability and how development fits existing residential blocks.
Neighborhood signs & identity — Main Street signage and branding being used in ways that can make a commercial district appear to define or represent the larger Kendall-Whittier neighborhood.
Meetings and Events
Neighborhood meetings, public meetings, and upcoming community events.
This website is a community effort. Corrections, additions, photographs, documents, memories, and suggestions are welcome. kdubtulsa@gmail.com
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