You make good points. I spent my working years in "Boom Towns" that were unplanned suburban sprawl communities that were being directed by second and third generation "local" people. They were timber towns, cow towns, canning villages and river towns that suddenly attracted people due to commerce. We usually arrived when they were running out of drinking water, electrical power and the Fed's were suing them for dumping raw sewerage into some local river. Same scenario here in Montana. County Commissioners ran dairies, cut timber or ran a small family business. City council is even worse. They have written planning rules and regulations but never planned any more than a circular driveway. The money people, developers and builders have been at this game for 100 years and know how to buy off the locals, build the projects, take the money and RUN ! No different than the Gold Rush or a strip mining operation for coal. 20 years from now residents will look back and cuss those that sold out or simply robbed the place without a gun.... A "Boom Town" is always a second rate community. The riff raff follows the big money being spent. The Mayberry police Department (Andy and Barney) are light years behind on law enforcement, communications, jail facilities and staff. When there are only 2 traffic lights in town and it takes 3 cycles of the lights to get across town, planning is already behind the curve.... Going to the local laundromat on Sunday, the one day off, and waiting in line for a machine to wash dirty clothes results in hiring one of the local girls to do your laundry and fold them for you while working those 12 hour days...The local hospital is hiring 200 new people but in the mean time, best catch a Life Flight to a regional trauma center... I would hope, by now, you know what I am talking about. I live it for years.
The propaganda here that will fast track the expansion is there is a shortage of housing. Hurry up and build more shoe boxes..
There are very few places, now, to escape to in America.
JMHO