GENTRIFICATION

I scrolled through the menu till I got to the Wilks notice. The work to get and maintain sympathetic legislation through the decades is awesome and entirely beyond my scope of accomplishments. I will however say again what I've sid repeatedly: A community at risk of gentrification must pay close attention to the scope and character of land development. If you build something that's out of context spatially/visually, it will be out of context economically and socially. One characteristic of this is how it inevitably raises taxes, and how jarringly it does so. If, au contraire, it is gentle and modulated spatially/visually--it's small, tucked away, under the size where permits are required, sensitively designed, built by local labor, etc.--there a much improved chance that it will slow or entirely avoid gentrification. Also, if financial pressures are such that local home owner must sell to pay their bills, there should be tiny or otherwise very affordable residential alternatives to actually leaving the the community. Also, the spectrum extending between strategic root causes and symptoms is rather extensive. It's important not to come down so heavily on the symptom side of the spectrum as to neglect the strategis/root cause end.