The content here seems to me: Although we tend to focus on larger, “macro” issues, the “micro” factors also play a large role in the quality of life in a community, a role which we ought not to ignore.

So, how is that “content-free?”  Again, I understand that it might seem incomplete and somewhat inadequate, leading to a lack of pointed conversation about it, but that does not render it utterly bereft of content simply because it hasn’t met your standard.

To draw an analogy, you might not like Country Western music, or you might have an issue with the representations found in Pop music or some commercial Hip-hop music.  But to say it’s not music seems nonsensically insulting to me…