Camal Pennington - What Is City Council?

Landry Willis - Running for City Council

Landry Willis is a candidate for City Council Ward 6 in OKC. Landry is a government affairs specialist at Francis Energy who previously worked for the OKC Realtors' Association on the ADU ordinance. In this conversation, Landry discusses what he considers to be some of the major issues facing OKC today, which includes affordability, sustainability, access to housing and transit, and government transparency. The Community Center is a show about building community. We interview various experts, advocates, and community leaders to collect a wide range of perspectives that showcase work being done in our communities today to give everyone a better idea of where we might be headed in the future. This show is brought to you by Eryngo Urbanism.

Erika Warren - Key to Addressing Homelessness

Erika Warren is the communications manager at Oklahoma City's Key to Home Partnership, which is a public-private partnership aimed at coordinating efforts to address the issue of homelessness accross OKC. Key to Home works with many partner agencies to provide aid and services to individuals experiencing homelessness. In this conversation, Erika discusses how systemic factors cause people to become homeless in the first place and how a calculated, coordinated, and well-funded response from the community can genuinely help the same people get back into stable housing. The Community Center is a show about building community. We interview various experts, advocates, and community leaders to collect a wide range of perspectives that showcase work being done in our communities today to give everyone a better idea of where we might be headed in the future. This show is brought to you by Eryngo Urbanism.

Lisa Chronister - Fixing Our Zoning Code

Lisa Chronister is a planner at the City of Oklhoma City with a background in architecture. For the past several years, she has been working to rewrite OKC's zoning ordinances to allow for better development patterns that will better incentivize walkable, mixed-use, transit-oriented, mixed-income neigborhoods throughout the urban core. In this episode, Lisa walks us through some of the changes coming in the zoning code update and some of the rationale behind why these changes are necessary. The Community Center is a show about building community. We interview various experts, advocates, and community leaders to collect a wide range of perspectives that showcase work being done in our communities today to give everyone a better idea of where we might be headed in the future. This show is brought to you by Eryngo Urbanism.

Matthew Peacock - Small Changes, Big Impact

Matthew Peacock is an architect and city councilor in Norman, OK. In this conversation, we talk about the role he has played an important role in pushing for zoning reform by removing minimum parking requirements and allowing ADUs by right in all residential zones. Matt is also an Incremental Development Alliance faculty member, through which he provides training for those interested in getting started as small-scale developers. The Community Center is a show about building community. We interview various experts, advocates, and community leaders to collect a wide range of perspectives that showcase work being done in our communities today to give everyone a better idea of where we might be headed in the future. This show is brought to you by Eryngo Urbanism.

Camal Pennington - What Is City Council?

Camal Pennington is the OKC Ward 7 City Councilor. He is also the executive director of It's My Community Initiative, a nonprofit which provides a wide variety of services to community members in need of help. Previously, he also sat on OKC's planning commission. In this conversation, we discuss how local government works and what we can do to get involved in the processes of local decision-making. The Community Center is a show about building community. We interview various experts, advocates, and community leaders to collect a wide range of perspectives that showcase work being done in our communities today to give everyone a better idea of where we might be headed in the future. This show is brought to you by Eryngo Urbanism.