[kingchef]

i would like to see clarksville, tn grow into the 200-250 thousand or more residents. much of the population fluctuation over the last several years have been due to deployment throughout the country and across to the middleast. that, of course, is steadily returning to a stabilization pattern, now that troops are returning to the base. it would probably be good for that area of middle tn to equalize the four larger towns---clarksville, nashville, franklin, and murfressboro into roughly the same physical sizes in populations. the growth in davidison county has already slowed down, but it continues to really grow in montogmery county and about the same in rutherford county. then the small cities in an around that area could be feeder suburbs for work, something like it is now, but more population distribution for the area.