I like that. Reporting back to their home planet, they described what they saw and what they believed to be our principles of growth management, based on their observations. Here are those principles. First, the population of our community is far too small. Our highest priority is to accelerate population growth.
All growth is good.
Someday, if we do it right, we can be as big as Atlanta. The second principle these aliens discerned is that population growth and growing big are so important that we must subsidize it. The aliens could see that growth has not paid for itself. The cost of everything from police and fire protection to sewers and roads has exceeded the tax revenues generated by growth. The principle is that we have nothing to learn from communities around the nation which have successfully managed growth.