What is the Meaning of Balanced Community: Ltr to Editor by Butch Clark
Summary
What ig the meaning of a balanced community? In the short-run a com- munity never really seems to be in balance. Some parts or sectors of the community's economy are growing bigger, or faster, or changing, or declining more rapidly than the others. In turn and as a result, other aspects of the community’s economy will be growing, changing, and de- clining as well. Balance for a community is found in the keeping of the community's capacity for making reasonably easy local adjustments to these changes over time. Communities dominated by one industry are vulnerable to the inevitable changes in the fortunes and technologies of the industry. The Gunnison Basin has maintained a relative balance among the four industries com- prising its basic economy - agriculture, education, mining, and recreatior The growth and size of any one of these has never greatly overshadowed the others. More importantly, the growth of one has not foreclosed the future existence of the others. When what has grown has subsequently, declined, community balance was retained as the other industries per- mitted a reasonably easy lecal adjustment. In an economic sense this is possible when the growth of one economic sector or another does not impose too great a burden of costs upon the others. It means that one industry does not pull wages so high that
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