I don&#x27;t actually disagree that it is a wonder Capitol Hill was unchanged for so long, but that doesn&#x27;t mean we can&#x27;t bemoan the fact that that era has largely ended.<p>I know that in general this is a trite topic and your quote about &quot;no more development&quot; is a valid one, but so is the opposite.<p>There&#x27;s another funny quote, apparently from Yogi Berra, which is roughly: &quot;Oh that restaurant, nobody goes there anymore, it is too crowded.&quot; And I think that kind of touches on the same thing.<p>Some people picked Seattle &#x2F; Capitol Hill for the characteristics it had (apart from proximity to downtown), and it is only natural for us to bemoan that it isn&#x27;t that anymore. Maybe that is just a fundamental truth, that with growth you will lose some &quot;flavor&quot;, but perhaps it is also worth trying to see if city planning can help a city grow so that it doesn&#x27;t.<p>That&#x27;s the point. Of course things change, but maybe appropriate planning and policies can make it so that we don&#x27;t lose what was so great about these neighborhoods in the first place.