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Saturday, February 3, 2007

Frisco should crack the 100,000 population mark this summer


They are building so many roads up there that when you look out your car window for the next 24.3 years, the color of traffic cone orange will be the only thing you see.

(Play this music in another window or tab. It symbolizes an invigorating people with a promising future.)

In May 2006 Frisco voters approved almost $1 billion in bonds for building stuff. Most of the money will go to schools, but $100 million will go to roads. Frisco will build so many roads that when you look out your car window for the next 24.3 years, this will be the only thing you see:

But all this hard work is paying off because sometime this summer (as long as the population growth rate continues) Frisco will join a select city list, which is composed only of those with 100,000 proud citizens.

Recent news items: Frisco Visual Arts Guild moved downtown, soccer is booming, they've got the new fancy toll bridge going in over Lake Lewisville, the new central fire station opens next week, etc.

Below are population numbers from the past year, courtesy the city, plus other reference points. In the future, Frisco will continue to be at the forefront of a lot of, ah, things that will spur growth. These things will be terrific, thanks to innovative system and data validation processes; highly efficient, flexible workflow implementations; and award-winning information access solutions with enhanced magnification and enrichment augmentation supplements that make YOU a winner.

Census 1990: 6,138

Census 2000: 33,714

May 1, 2004: 65,479

May 1, 2005: 76,760

May 1, 2006: 86,971

June 1, 2006: 87,740

July 1, 2006: 88,469

August 1, 2006: 89,071

September 1, 2006: 89,816

October 1, 2006: 90,598

November 1, 2006: 91,429

December 1, 2006: 92,198

January 1, 2007: 93,346

February 1, 2007: 93,988

January 2010 (estimated): 120,000

Compare those numbers to, say, Plano:

1900 - Census 1,304

Census 1910 - 1,250

Census 1920 - 1,715

Census 1930 - 1,554

Census 1940 - 1,582

Census 1950 - 2,126

Census 1960 - 3,695

Census 1970 - 17,872

Census 1980 - 72,331

Census 1990 - 128,713

Census 2000 - 222,030

Estimated 2005 - 250,096



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