I certainly won't argue that it's nice to have diversity within neighborhoods. But you can construct a quality 900 sf home and a trash 2100 sf home. Nevertheless, the spectrum of "should absolutely be razed" to "should absolutely be preserved" correlates strongly with the spectrum of small to large.

Of course, I'm not saying that I want people to come in and raze houses indiscriminately, and I would certainly hope that there are many safe-guards in place to keep owners from damaging the character of our urban core neighborhoods whether through gentrification or through new development, but it's also important to remember that the present is history as well, and it is okay for old neighborhoods to gain new faces.

If OKC were to figure out the perfect solution, they'd beat every city in the history of the world to the punch. It's an impossibly complex issue. So I'm not by any means saying that my proposition is fool-proof. It's a genuine effort to find out where boundaries are to determine best practices for our city.