PlaniTulsa was met with more enthusiasm today, as hundreds of Tulsans headed to the BOK Center. People eagerly shared their opinions on what the city should look like over the next 30 years.

The designs may be very different from one another, but many people share a common theme. That theme is youth retention and attraction, ensuring Tulsa has a strong future by making sure young people want to live here.

It seems only fitting that the future of Tulsa would be planned in the city's newest and most futuristic building, the BOK Center.

Swimming in a sea of marked up maps swarming the arena floor, 61-year-old Ron MacLeod tells us, “I am here today for Tulsa Youth Council.”

On stage, 17-year-old Hannah Jelley says, “OK, we're going to make this short and snappy.”

In a mega-sized show and tell, two generations met with different plans for Tulsa's landscape. They started as strangers to each other, but with a remarkably shared motivation behind their designs.

Ron MacLeod explained, “We tried to focus on areas to support what we call our 'younger folks' in Tulsa.”

Ron wants to make sure that kids like Hannah stay in Tulsa. He told us, “We really focused on the downtown.”

Hannah says she'd like to stay, but only if the city becomes a little more hip.

“The man thing in downtown that we wanted to do was make it more village-like, instead of just businesses so people could live there,” Hannah tells us.

Ron says, “I think Tulsa's a wonderful city for older folks. I mean it's great, but to keep, to attract the young college graduates, etcetera to the city.”

That, he says, is the key to a truly successful design; one that would get Hannah back on the map after she goes away for college.

Hannah says, “I'm planning on coming back to Tulsa, especially if they do all the things that they're talking about doing here.”

Another shared theme today was transportation and a lot of brainstorming on light rails.

The next workshop is set for October 28^th at the Greenwood Cultural Center.