Densification is the goal of Tulsa’s city planners.

What is densification? That’s where the government steps in and slows or stops urban sprawl. Instead of letting people move to single-family homes in the suburbs, they are pressured into living in  high-rise apartment buildings in a tight metropolitan setting.

This is why city leaders in Tulsa convinced voters to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money for Downtown Tulsa to subsidize apartments, finance sports arenas, build giant parking garages and revamp streets with low traffic counts.

Tulsa’s elite like it because it follows a European model. And a population that is bunched together in apartment settings is easier to manipulate and control.

That’s what happened in Russia in the early part of the 20th Century and it is more or less a European model today.

Here’s on of the problems: the coronavirus.

About one third of the victims of the pandemic are in New York and most of those are in New York City – the biggest and most densely populated city in America. Nearby New Jersey has a similar problem.

Even New York Gov. Cuomo admitted that his city is suffering disproportionately due to “densification.”

If Tulsa’s population keeps getting shoved toward Downtown, similar problems could arise here.

Planners use zoning, property taxes and political pressure (i.e. the chamber of commerce) to impose this lifestyle on people. Don’t think so? Then try to find a part of town apart from Downtown that has government subsidized housing.

America was founded on freedom. We like our wide open spaces and Americans shouldn’t be forced to huddle in cities that someday could ripe for another disaster.