Economic development will continue to be a strategy based on hope until a city can correlate its annual expense per taxable acre with the annual revenue it receives per acre from every taxable parcel or block, tract, and zone within its boundaries. At this point it will be able to correlate its average expense per taxable acre with the average yield per taxable acre it requires to deliver a desirable quality of life within its boundaries. It is rather obvious that “desirable” will remain a political question as well as a financial issue; that “within” can only be answered by scientific evaluation; and that both will be subject to unstable popular opinion that Jefferson debated with the term “self-evident”.
At this point public leadership will have the information
needed to pursue an economic strategy based on data science and Tegimenic
analysis of shelter capacity, intensity, activity, and revenue options at the level
of financial analysis, strategic planning, and urban design visualization needed
to shelter growing populations within geographic limits defined to protect both
their quality and source of life, the Natural Domain.
Walter M. Hosack, October 2025
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