San Antonio's Growth Problem

I should have blasted about the PGA Village thing early on. Somebody should have, at least. Here's what happened. The PGA was working with a local company to build a huge golf complex on SA's north side. The north side being the good part of town. The rapidly expanding part of town. The previous city council said "that's a swell idea. The PGA takes good care of its people, they've got a quality operation, it'll be good for high-end tourism. They even address our concerns about the environment. And about 900 jobs!" Low-paying jobs, but jobs.
So that's dead. Was there a time in history where Community Activists wanted their community to be more prosperous? Hard to tell. CA's have a script for every new development, every corporation moving in. It goes like this:

Company: We'd like to bring 500 new jobs to San Antonio.
City of SA: That sounds pretty cool.
Community Activist (Socialist): Those jobs better be paying $35k a year.
Company: Well, they don't. They pay about double minimum wage, but we're also going to-
Community Activist (Socialist): No. Bad.
City of SA: Oh, uh, yeah... We guess. Yeah, what they said.
Community Activist (Racialist): Better take a look at your diversity, too. We'll be needing, hmm... 50% minorities in management.
Community Activist (South Side [never North Side]): You'll need to move that from a prosperous, expanding area of town to an area that Traditionally requires a full-time guy just to clean up the grafitti.

And so forth. It's a grueling process. SA has COPS and Metro Alliance. Every city has their analogs, I suppose. Our bane.
It's been interesting hearing Jeff Bolton, a recent transplant radio host, being befuddled about how self-defeating San Antonio is. Like seriously befuddled.

More later, I'm sure.