Thus, by the time Rusk was elected mayor, the growth machine had undergone an awakening. The transition from an at-large city commission to city council districts eliminated the standard boomerbooster promotional slates from city governance. The creation of real estate development regulation, a metropolitan flood control district, and beginning of a cultural movement to preserve examples of pueblo-style architecture all bespoke a development environment in transition and threats to the unconstrained maneuvering room of the transition and threats to the unconstrained maneuvering room of the growth machine. These forces culminated in the mid-1970s with the an election that shocked Albuquerque’s predevelopment focused growth machine.