[bob rulz]

The only way that many people would get jammed into Salt Lake City without developing a large amount of open space (like, say, the industrial western section of the city) would be by demolishing single-family homes (not good) or by building very tall highrises throughout the city (unrealistic).

Of course, if the industrial west side of the city were to be converted to residential and could be master-planned in a way that would discourage auto use and be truly walkable, I would be for that, but we all know that wouldn't happen.

I do think we could get to 250,000 without too much effort, and I don't think 300,000 is out of reach (but I couldn't imagine that happening much earlier than...idk...2050?). Much higher than that feels like it would be extremely unlikely unless over the long (long!) term.