Keeping Austin Expensive

Dear Editor,
    Let's face up to the facts here: Pandora's box has been opened and there is no returning to the "way things used to be" here in Austin, unfortunately. Let's look at the Enchanted Forest/United States Art Authority "zoning" debacle that has been going on. Is it really a surprise? Should we really complain, seeing as how we keep voting the very problem back into office time and time again? In what used to be the land of ideas, this town is slowly turning into a suburb of Dallas. It's amazing the amount of money the musicians and the art community of this city brings in, and yet the community gets continually squashed. The city likes to advertise that it's the "music capital of the world,” which is fine as long as it's really only that during the times of SXSW and the Austin City Limits Music Festival. I think the deal is this: be a musician or an artist or have a great idea as long as it doesn't interfere with the new corporate interest. Let's keep Austin expensive.