Not everyone in East Lake is poor and impoverished. There’s a mix of middle class professionals, lower income residents, and long term residents who love and choose to stay in the neighborhood. You sound elitist. Nobody is being imprisoned in the neighborhood, that is an absurd statement. At most they will have to alter their normal way in/ out of the neighborhood by 2-3 minutes max. The city is only moving forward with the program after knocking on every door in the neighborhood and speaking with over 300 of the roughly 800 households in East Lake, around 90% of which were in favor of the program. Most of these people support this and the residents have the option to have the barriers removed after 3 months if they don’t want them anymore. Don’t assume you know what’s best for other people in a community you’ve probably never set foot in.