The Four-Axis Reading: How four calibrated lenses converged on one meta-pattern across the South Lake corridor

Four calibrated investigative lenses ran in parallel across the 92-document South Lake corpus through April 2026: corridor / governance / regulatory / wildcard. The four streams converged independently on one meta-observation. The corridor is no longer producing a single regulatory regime — it is producing four simultaneously. State-preemption (resisted via grandfather-window code drafting). Federal-statutory mandate (pre-coded before Fair Housing Act litigation arrives). Climate-compression (conditioned-around at the parcel layer where dimensional code no longer fits). Demographic-capital (annexed-into and clustered-at during the closing window). Each axis runs on its own time horizon, mechanism, and authority surface. Each city reads one or two axes well. The regional legal network reads all four. The corridor's full regulatory environment is legible only when the four axes read together — the analytical compound the cities cannot produce on their own. The reading is what makes the corridor an observatory rather than a database.