[quote=The-Shoveler]No I was not referring to you BG, just the Idea about not wanting the great unwashed (under-educated) masses to feed the sprawl .
I guess we could put up a several hundred high rise condo’s in downtown SD area,
There’s room for that LOL.

Same kind of Idea in the 30’s, this was what the grapes of wrath was about.[/quote]

It’s not the growth that causes the spending. It’s the government mindset that rationalizes any growth and increases into a mandatory need for more government. Double digit revenue growth is met by even larger double digit expenditures.

Same basic mindset as with LAFD that requires a fire truck team to be dispatched on every call even though 98% are medical only calls.

A city that isn’t growing and rejuvenating is a stagnant and dead city.