It's time to put the brakes on the growth.

[zipplewrath]

2. That can be tough to do

One can try to manage the impacts of growth through planning and zoning. The problem though can quickly become economic in nature. Since no one can actually stop people from showing up, if infrastructure isn't built to accommodate them, it can become overwhelmed, and/or very expensive. As someone else said, one important thing to work with growth intelligently is to not allow growth to become a metric of success in and of itself. Enough housing needs to be built, but not so much as to drive down the price of existing housing, and worse, creating "blighted" areas or slums. It needs to be built with issues like schools and public transportation in mind as well. And of course, one must pay close attention to the environmental impacts and impacts on things like the water supply.