It's either tax and regulate locally or be taxed and be regulated from afar.  The state can' let go of resource development.  The borough can' t let go of being connected to Anchorage.  Talkeetna is an 'unorganized' community and the MSB is reluctant to try organizing it and Talkeetnites are reluctant to organize themselves.  Either free booting capitalism or the zoning police.  Good luck to whomever in trying to straighten out all the convuluted streets  and sewers before the rivers flood.  10,000 years of civilization and Talkeetna is on the tip of the spear of the future.  Tourists should be advised to watch out more for Alaskan drivers than for bears.  It's the last frontier, so " live it breathe it" before it disappears.