Scholarship examining the legacy of early twentieth-century zoning and real estate practices on present-day urban landscapes has provided significant insight into the ways public officials appraised communities of color at the national and city scale. However, less is known about how local policy makers evaluated communities of color through the social movements of the 1970s and austerity policies of the 1980s. Analyzing Los Angeles City planning and administrative archives from the 1970s to 1990s, I assess how local policy makers arrived at regarding historically racialized and disinvested places such as Boyle Heights as potential sites of investment during the last quarter of the twentieth century. I find that city policy makers briefly categorized Boyle Heights as fit for preservation grounded in its socioracial composition and, later, designated the barrio as ancillary to intensifying efforts to revitalize downtown. Following the evolution of appraisals of land use during this period of transformation historicizes contemporary gentrification processes.

研究 20 世纪早期分区和房地产实践在当今城市景观中的遗产的学术研究为公职人员在国家和城市范围内评估有色人种社区的方式提供了重要的见解。然而，关于地方政策制定者如何通过 1970 年代的社会运动和 1980 年代的紧缩政策评估有色人种社区的情况鲜为人知。通过分析 1970 年代至 1990 年代的洛杉矶市规划和行政档案，我评估了当地政策制定者如何将博伊尔高地等历史上种族化和投资不足的地方作为潜在投资地点在 20 世纪的最后 25 年达成。我发现城市政策制定者根据其社会种族构成将博伊尔高地简要归类为适合保护，后来，指定该街区作为加强振兴市中心工作的附属设施。随着这一转型时期土地利用评估的演变，当代绅士化进程被历史化。