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View Poll Results: What Year will Indy Reach A Million?
2020-2025 6 19.35%
2025-2030 4 12.90%
2035-2040 4 12.90%
2045-2050 2 6.45%
After 2050 4 12.90%
It Will Never Reach 1,000,000 11 35.48%
Voters: 31. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-24-2015, 09:39 PM
 
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Does Indianapolis even have enough open land to build enough residences to reach a million people inside the Indianapolis city limits? From what ive seen of the city, it seems likes its totally and completely urban with not a whole lot of open space. Unless Indianapolis starts to build "up"with some high rise condos, I don't see Indianapolis city limits getting much more than 880,000 or so.
Indy is 360 sq miles with plenty of open space. Franklin and Decatur townships wide open. Sent Lawrence township an d a nice clip of Wayne also open land.
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Old 08-24-2015, 11:39 PM
 
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LOL..Indy's land area is larger than NYC. It could probably fit 10 million +.
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Old 08-25-2015, 04:46 AM
 
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There is plenty of open land in Indianapolis to support 1 million people.

Whether or not that happens, honestly I don't know or care all that much.
Why don't you care? Don't you like to see Indianapolis compete with other similar sized cities in population, such as Charlotte, Austin, Nashville, Columbus, Jacksonville, etc? I don't speak for anybody else, but I always like those kind of competitions. When I lived in Muncie I liked the population competition between Mumcie, Anderson and Terre Haute. Bloomington was about half the size of Muncie back then but it then passed Muncie in population when nobody was looking.
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Old 08-25-2015, 06:20 AM
 
Location: Englewood, Near Eastside Indy
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Why don't you care?
Because I don't.

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Don't you like to see Indianapolis compete with other similar sized cities in population, such as Charlotte, Austin, Nashville, Columbus, Jacksonville, etc?
Sure, in things that matter. Such as livability, economy, vibrancy, things that are important. Penis measuring contests about who is bigger for the sake of being bigger don't interest me.
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Old 08-25-2015, 01:41 PM
 
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I have found that usually the people on the team that's losing ground with the rest of the pack don't have a whole lot of use for these low brow population contests, or as you put it in your oh so eloquent way, a "penis measuring contests". LOL!!!
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Old 08-25-2015, 03:08 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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I have found that usually the people on the team that's losing ground with the rest of the pack don't have a whole lot of use for these low brow population contests, or as you put it in your oh so eloquent way, a "penis measuring contests". LOL!!!
There isn't any tangible direct benefit from having a higher population than another city; it's mostly just bragging rights.

Now, if one were to make an argument that with increased population come other indirect benefits - such as an increase in diversity, culture, national exposure, urbanity, sure. However, there are plenty of examples where that isn't the case.
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Old 09-04-2015, 05:45 PM
 
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Indianapolis has plenty of space and a lower population density, so it's possible the city could reach a million, soon enough.
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Old 09-06-2015, 09:10 PM
 
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Indy can always annex the surrounding towns and become a city-county like St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
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Old 09-06-2015, 09:45 PM
 
Location: Fishers, IN
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Indy can always annex the surrounding towns and become a city-county like St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
1. You're late to the party. Unigov happened in 1970.

2. I don't believe St. Louis and Baltimore represent unified city-county government. In both cases, I believe, the city and county are independent of one another.
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Old 09-06-2015, 11:20 PM
 
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1. You're late to the party. Unigov happened in 1970.

2. I don't believe St. Louis and Baltimore represent unified city-county government. In both cases, I believe, the city and county are independent of one another.
What I mean is, Indy annexes all of the surrounding towns and they all become a part of Indianapoils.

Kind of like how Brooklyn is to NYC or The Loop is to Chicago.
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