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I vote by absentee ballot. So when I voted on this proposition, the text that I read didn't match up with some advertising I saw later ... the ads say there will be no tax-increase to fund MAPS 4 (a name I don't remember seeing on the ballot), but the proposition read like there would be such an increase (a 1% sales-tax, if I remember correctly).

But the ads are true; there's no tax increase, it's 'a continuation of the 1% sales-tax we've been paying for MAPS 3' (a fellow Food Bank volunteer explained to me).


MAPS stands for "Making A Place Sensational? ... Mayors Aligned to Produce Success? ... Missions, Ambitions and Passions Served? ... Momentum Achieved, Potential Seized? ... Modern Assets Prudently Secured? ... Mended Attitudes, People Smiling? ... Making A Powerful Statement? ... Milestone Anniversary of Phenomenal Strides?" ... the projects do all those things, but the acronym most-likely stands for "Metropolitan Area ProjectS."

As the video below tells us, MAPS was proposed because Oklahoma City was 'a place that was good to live in, but -that you wouldn't want to visit' (not necessarily because "it's unpleasant," but just because 'we didn't have many tourist-attractions to speak of' ... oh, I can think of a 'famous place to go'-or-two; but I think those were mostly meant as "entertainment for locals"—not usually places you'd come in from out-of-state to hang-out-at).


Through MAPS, Oklahoma City built:

  • Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark
  • Bricktown Canal
  • Cox Convention Center
  • Chesapeake Energy Arena (which is now Paycom Arena, I think)
  • Civic Center Music Hall (renovations, as I think it's been around longer than MAPS)
  • construction on the Oklahoma River
  • Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library
  • State Fairgrounds Improvements
  • Oklahoma Spirit Trolleys

MAPS 3 (maybe MAPS 2 was concidered "part of MAPS 1") brought:

  • Oklahoma City Convention Center
  • Scissortail Park
  • Oklahoma City Streetcar
  • RIVERSPORT Rapids
  • Bennett Event Center
  • projects to support Senior-Citizen Health & Wellness
  • Trails
  • Sidewalks

Bricktown Entertainment District in 1997 vs. -in 2013
MAPS 4 proposals include:
& MAPS for Kids was a program built to fund several hundred public-school projects.

'Those words' ("Metropolitan," "Area" ... below-hyperlinked to an outline of the original MAPS projects) are built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
    The word “Metropolitan” is built on words that mean “a Mother + City (Parent District from which others have been Colonized)” (Capital City, the See of a Metropolitan |Bishop, Underground City |Railways). 
    The word “Area” is built on words that mean “the |Level Ground, Open Space (for Building-Sites, Playgrounds, |Threshing-|Floors)” (possibly related to "to become |Arid, Dry" on the notion of "a Bare Space |Cleared by Burning," any Surface within any Set of |Limits).
    I don't want to sound like I'm against MAPS 4 (and the huge increase it will bring to Oklahoma Citizens' quality-of-life, if MAPS 1-through-3 are any indication), but voting NO would've reduced the local sales-tax 1%; Wouldn't it have?


    Or am I looking at that wrong (or 'wrongly' 🤓)? Tell
     me how-wrong/right I am in the comments below 😁

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