Maybe growth isn't always a good thing. My waistline has grown a little this last year, with lots of travel, expensive meals and not enough exercise. Now some of my clothes don't fit like they used to, and I don't like it. On the other hand, a lawyer friend of mine outgrew several of his very nice suits and sold them at our church's rummage sale. Growth was good in that case, at least for me.
Cancerous growth is bad.
Nobody wants that, even if you like Bleu Cheese. Boise's grown a lot in the 15 years I've been here, and mostly I think it's a bad thing. More traffic, noise, crime, sprawl. But more jobs, economic activity, families, children, art, music. Ask the people on shady Curtis Road how they feel about growth.