vision2020@moscow.com: Troy angst
Troy angst
Steve Cooke (scooke@novell.uidaho.edu)
Thu, 22 May 1997 08:44:46 PST
Dear Visionaries,
The Daily News has carried a number of articles about the angst in
Troy re. the mayor, city council members, and residents. The question I have been
asking myself is "Where is all this anxiety coming from?" Yesterday I
calculated the population growth rates of the 200+ metropolitan areas
in Idaho for 1990-94 using US Bureau of the Census numbers. I sorted them from high to low. It turns
out that Troy is the 10th fastest growing metro area in the state at
8.4% per year. Troy added 300 new residences between 1990 and 1994. By
comparison Moscow added 500. However Troy's population base was about 700 in 1990 and
Moscow's was about 18,400. (It turns out that Moscow is one of the
slowest growing cities in the state at 0.7% per year. The state avg.
is 3.0%.) Now I think I know what all the fuss is about in Troy -
mondo growing pains.
Steve Cooke
Associate Professor
Dept. of Ag. Economics & Rural Soc.
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83843
http://www.uidaho.edu/~scooke/onepercent
208-885-7170 (phone)
208-885-5759 (fax)
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