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Article: Developers Take Gamble on Possibility of Rexburg, Idaho, Population Growth.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- March 7, 2004
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By Brian Davidson, Post Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 7--REXBURG, Idaho -- Kurt Hibbert jokes he's ordered his on eBay.
Shawn Larsen uses his with caution.
Sharon Tuckett says she doesn't have one, and hesitates to use anyone else's.
But a crystal ball is just what Rexburg's planning and zoning administrator, mayor and the BYU-Idaho's housing office director could use as they plot their city's future.
There's evidence the hillside town will grow at a rate of about 5 percent a year for the years to come.
At that rate, Rexburg's population would double in the next 20 years, ...