Realistic :

• Mansfield, Texas approx. 80,000 people
• Average household income is approx. $126,000.00 per year.
• Approx. 92% of the working population travel elsewhere to work.
• They moved here (and travel to their work) because they chose to live in a suburban neighborhood with good schools to raise a family  away from the high-density, traffic and crime of Ft. Worth / Dallas.
• Those people and the residents before us have established who we are today and paid the price to be…”Minutes from Everything and Second to None.”

Idealistic :

• To increase population to 150,000 on 25% of the land that hasn’t been developed and add other amenities to accommodate that growth without destroying what has made us unique. Not possible.
• To bring the majority of those individuals back to work here…that chose to be away from their work? Unrealistic.  
• To have world-class amenities (not sure exactly what that means).
• To be “everything to everyone.” Not possible

Growth is inevitable…but the right leadership should focus on making decisions to support what has made us desirable. The wrong growth will eventually drive the current population elsewhere…history will repeat itself if we don’t learn from it.