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Originally Posted by Obadno
Assuming we grow at the historical average we have been for the last 20 years Phoenix will have A LOT more than 100k more residents in 2036
The metro will have an additional 1.5 million people assuming growth continues as it has.
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Much more than that - by 2050 (about 30 years) anticipate it will double to 7M-8M. Somewhere there is a giant ‘official’ state spreadsheet with all these growth estimates...
Regardless - we doubled the last 30 years, we expect to do about the same over the next.
And yes - THIS is what MAG, city councils, etc should all be looking at when planning and making decisions like these.
Honestly - I think what we’re seeing with the council right now is a bunch of people jockeying for position and getting what they can to make people happy before the new mayor steps in. We’ve had a bit of a vacuum since Stanton left and that vacuum has left the city more or less ‘leaderless’.
Though honestly not sure the new mayor will be as impactful as Stanton - I don’t see her as a visionary. (None of the candidates were at the level, IMHO)