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Southsoundguy the growth is happening whether you "permit" it or not. It's either going to be in the form of a population that desperately needs housing and opportunity, or a population that has adequate housing and opportunity. That depends on who the planners are truly listening to. Either we let builders build and business flourish, or we grow our population of desperate folks who will do whatever they can to get the things they need. Planners and officials need to lose this misguided vision that growth can be mitigated by blocking it. That's not reality. Every population projection over the last 7 from OFM for this area has fallen short of the real numbers. People will come here. We're too far behind to began blocking growth now. We need to build.

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