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> From: Steve Cooke <scooke@novell.uidaho.edu>
> To: vision2020@uidaho.edu
> Cc: editor@moscow.com
> Subject: Troy angst
> Date: Thursday, May 22, 1997 9:44 AM
>
> 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)