What are you talking about? 700,000 people means over 1 million cars? Every man, woman, and child will each own 1.43 cars? According to the Federal Highway Administration, in 2005 (the last year shown on their webpage), Utah had 0.44 automobiles registered per capita, including commercial vehicles such as taxicabs. This would work out to be 308,000 automobiles.

Wow, several things to think about here.

First, St. George isn't in a closed valley like Salt Lake, Provo, and Logan, so air doesn't get trapped very easily to exaggerate the air pollution.

Second, the pipeline's purpose is to accommodate growth that is sure to happen. It's called "preparing for the future." Remember? They used to do that in decades past, and you and I reap the benefits today.

Third, everyone wants to shut the door behind them. Once they've found their little bit of paradise, be it in Portland, Jackson Hole, Midway, or St. George, they want to stop growth. Sorry, but much experience shows that slow growth measures just hurt regular folks by driving up real estate and other prices to the point that only the wealthy can live there. To me, that's just unAmerican.

Ask yourself this: What if the measures I propose had been instituted in 1970. What would the economic results have been on regular folks? If it would drive out the regular folks, it's not a good idea IMHO.

Utah's Dixie was a paradise that has been turned into Developer's Hell. In the name of the almighty $ it's now noise, pollution, overcrowding, environmental chaos. It's profoundly depressing.