If Japanese people are leaving Little Tokyo, and other groups are moving in and want to change the area to suit themselves, why interfere in that process too much?

Chinatown used to be where Union Station is, and it was razed and put into a very Italian neighborhood. Boyle Heights was distinctly Jewish for decades, and now it is primarily a Mexican enclave. Oakwood in Venice used to be all-black – now it is turning all-yuppie.

These changes are talked about like some sort of crisis – but they are part of living in a large metropolis.

I think it is easier for a councilperson to “work” on something like this because it only requires that some underlings in a bunch of city departments get busy holding meetings and writing stuff that nobody reads for the council file. When you’ve got no real idea what makes a community thrive, or fail to thrive, you get these retarded efforts to turn an area into a shrine to the past – and typically doom its future.